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The first human patient shown.
BRAIN-CHIP AT WORK?
The first public reveal of Elon Musk’s human brain-chip capabilities have arrived.
Elon Musk’s transhumanist startup Neuralink on Wednesday live-streamed its first patient playing an online chess game, using the company’s chip implant to move the mouse.
Neuralink, at first, is testing its brain implant technology for “..people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts”.
The first public human subject for Neuralink is Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old patient who was reportedly paralysed below the shoulder after a diving accident.
In a livestream on X, Arbaugh said the surgery to implant the chip in his brain was “super easy”.
“I literally was released from the hospital a day later. I have no cognitive impairments,” he said.
Reposting the video, Musk said, “Livestream of Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking.”
Talking about the Civilization VI game, Arbaugh said he had given up playing altogether.
“You all (Neuralink) gave me the ability to do that again and played for 8 hours straight.”
Arbaugh said the new tech “isn’t flawless”, mentioning “challenges” they are encountering.
However, he stressed this is an “ongoing process” and “the benefits he’s experienced are undeniable”.
Right..
First of all, I am super sceptical of this story and the ‘validity’ of this ‘everything is good’ actor they have.
Let’s not forget a U.S. lawmaker in health policy has asked the Food and Drug Administration why it did not inspect Elon Musk’s Neuralink before allowing the brain implant company to test on humans.
Secondly, the miracle of restoring function is to allow to sit and play games all day?
‘No human will be left not consuming our mind-numbing products!’
The era of the public human demonstrations has arrived, ladies and gentlemen, and what a better way to normalise the transhumanist vision than to highlight gaming as the end result of the technology.
If indeed this individual even has a chip inside of his head, that is.
Perhaps, like most topics filled with simulated cinema for the masses, these demonstrations are merely a show to get people to actually put the BCI devices inside of their skulls.
And what happens when that moment arrives?
If we are to go off previous animal experiments with the device, it doesn’t look promising.
NEURALINK SAGA
We have to take words that the patient is ‘fine’ with a grain of salt, after the same technology has been reported to have killed monkeys during previous trials.
And, in similar fashion, said monkeys were rolled out to the public and shown to be playing games with their brainwaves, just like the first human patient highlighted above.
He described the monkeys as living in “paradise”, but the primates actually suffered painful deaths afterwards, raising suspicions about the long-term safety, if indeed this gentlemen has it in.
“Neuralink has never caused the death of a monkey… in fact, we now have monkeys who have had Neuralink implants for two to three years, and they’re doing great,” Musk said last year.
In February, Neuralink had announced that its first human patient was implanted with a brain chip from Neuralink, and had fully recovered. We can assume this individual is the patient in question.
Musk has been very vocal about his ambitious plans for a human symbiosis with artificial intelligence.
He wants this chip to: “Enable control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking. Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal.”
The company uses a robot to surgically place a brain-computer interface (BCI) implant in a region of the brain that controls the intention to move, Neuralink has explained previously.
A BCI is a system that deciphers brain signals and translates them into commands for external technologies, as we have covered here on TOTT News in the past.
We will have to wait and see where this saga continues, first introduced through the guise of ‘helping the disadvantaged’, before becoming commercialised and integrated into the larger spider web.
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If it was to help paralysed people to perform tasks otherwise impossible then it might be a good idea assuming it was well researched and fully tested beforehand. Otherwise I think leave our brains alone!