The biochemistry of human thought is not understood. Hard to conceptualize how these chips would work. Could be nothing more than a silicon repeat of Pavlov’s dog training experiments.
“The biochemistry of human thought is not understood. Hard to conceptualize how these chips would work.”
Well,this stuff depends a lot on the ability of humans to learn and adapt to bridge that gap. Once they hook something up to your brain, the output is there, but the brain does not consciously know how to control the output. So they have to set up a feedback system, like a dot on a computer screen, to teach the person to control the output. You think of different things until the dot moves, and then you know you’ve found the right “circuit” in your brain to control the input. After that it’s just practice and repetition with however many outputs you would need.
As for input, I am not sure how they are going to handle that. I think we are probably quite a way from being able to “overlay” an image on the optic nerve or anything like that. Until then I think they will stick with traditional inputs like external monitors, VR goggles, etc.