Let’s be honest, if Neuralink can actually change how the human brain fires neurologically, is there any future for humanity that differs from the Neuralink cosmos? Our motivations, our tendencies, our entire social construct dies under the authority of Neuralink.
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I’m questioning your idea of what Neuralink does here. The goal of Neuralink, at least over the short to medium term, is twofold in my view:
1) Integrate human brains with computers. This is not robo-brain stuff. This is “a computer can tell what I’m thinking and I can click around a computer and give it commands.” This is very push rather than pull as a concept. You push the computer with your mind; you don’t really change. This is an extremely important distinction that I don’t think this post properly illustrates.
2) Improving human welfare with electrodes and brain stimulation. We already do this in patients with Parkinsonism. Nothing that revolutionary here. Solving blindness, epilepsy, paralysis, dementia, etc. That’s what’s on the table here.
That’s the mission of Neuralink for the next 10 - 20 years, which is nowhere near the stuff you’re talking. Are you talking longer term than that, in which case it might not be Neuralink even doing it?
Synchron already has a 62 year old ALS patient using his mind to tweet. It's here, it's happening.
Yeah, Stephen Hawking style implements are very much contained within the 1st category.
Speaking of Hawking, I forgot to add it means we're also one step closer to stuff like how they can talk to each other without speaking in Ghost in the Shell. So look forward to your annoying little middle school nephews chosing the Hawking voice to bother you inside your own head while you're trying to conduct an in-person meeting with millions of dollars on the line.
Lol. Hopefully in an instance like that it would at least be like the telephone where you could decline a call. I can’t say I would be that interested in that product.
Neuralink is scary and unnecessary. We already have iPhones, tablets, computers, Apple watches, etc. There's no need to integrate this in our mind. Why take the risk of implanting a computer that can be tampered with in your head when you already have every tool you need in your pocket?
Thanks for this. I think there’s plenty of reason to be skeptical on that part of the mission. Do we really need chimps playing Atari Pong with an implant (which was a recent product demo they did)? No. Do we have lots of uses for electrode stimulation and increasing mobility in patients with physical disabilities? Yeah, that gets me really excited. I think it’s important to understand how the brain works, which the Pong experiments can help with, but ultimately you need to have non-creepy uses for the technology which makes people’s lives better.
Any time I read about this sort of technology, my immediate thought is how will the government and/or Google/FB/etc get their grubby hands all over it? As much as I want to think that this will help humanity, in the long term I see the outcome of transhumanism or any sort of clear mind/computer connection being overtly dystopian, as the obvious next step is to use said technology for surveillance and control (or limited to just promotion of lazy consumerism if we're lucky).
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