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Scientists Are Using Brain Implants To Read Patients’ Minds, And You Might Be Next
The Federalist ^ | July 21, 2021 | Joe Allen

Posted on 07/21/2021 3:00:16 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

Last year, Elon Musk predicted his Neuralink brain implant could eventually allow people to bypass human language. With a handful of AI-powered chips jabbed into their brains, Neuralink users could converse with their thoughts alone. Poetry and liturgy would become a sentimental pastime, like roasting marshmallows over a campfire.

“In principle, you would be able to communicate very quickly, and with far more precision, ideas,” Musk mumbled to Joe Rogan. “And language would — I’m not sure what would happen to language … [But] really, in the first few versions all we’re going to be trying to do is solve brain injuries.”

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On July 14, the transhumanist goal of neuro-telepathy came a step closer to realization, thanks to a major breakthrough by a team at the University of California, San Francisco. Neuroscientists surgically implanted a subdural electrode array on the surface of a stroke victim’s brain. For 81 weeks, they fed his sensorimotor cortex signals into an artificial intelligence system. Using the algorithms’ predictive power as a sort of auto-complete feature, the team was able to translate the subject’s attempts at speech into text with extraordinary accuracy.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; brainimplants; musk; neuralink; neurastink; transhumanist
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To: NWFree

None!


41 posted on 07/21/2021 6:10:05 PM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: GraceG

Well just a Parents pass DNA down to their children, imagine if parents could ALSO pass down their thought processes, memories, neural patterns, etc etc to their children!!!!

NO MORE SCHOOL!

Also IF said offspring did go to school they would have ALL THE PARENT’S TOOLS to overcome ANY indoctrination thrown at them!

If the government bans this in a futile attempt for retain their power this will go underground and we will be living in some weird cyberpunk novel/game.

I don’t think you are considering what would happen if the parents are liberal.


42 posted on 07/21/2021 6:26:50 PM PDT by Paperpusher
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To: MayflowerMadam
Of course.

As Sylvester Stallone said in Judge Dredd, I knew you’d say that. 😀

43 posted on 07/21/2021 6:32:17 PM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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To: crz
BTW, there has to be a mind in there for it to work.

I guess it wouldn’t work on Democrats. 😀

44 posted on 07/21/2021 6:43:12 PM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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To: ConservativeInPA

The dystopian story “Harrison Bergeron” is disturbingly close to becoming Non-Fiction.

I’ll admit that this crap scares the living heck out of me.


45 posted on 07/21/2021 6:56:46 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (Christopher Sign did not kill himself.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Scientists are using brain implants to read patients' minds.

...strippers are using breast implants to read patrons' minds.

46 posted on 07/21/2021 8:43:34 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DFG

MAGISTRATE: “Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded. You will find it an effective combination.”


47 posted on 07/21/2021 9:11:33 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The politicians should use this technology.


48 posted on 07/22/2021 7:42:31 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Paperpusher

[ I don’t think you are considering what would happen if the parents are liberal. ]

Nothing changes in that case.


49 posted on 07/22/2021 9:59:28 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: dfwgator

haha! my brain pronounces that “nekid.” Not sure the AI will figure that out.


50 posted on 07/22/2021 1:55:16 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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