Posted on 12/01/2022 8:47:09 AM PST by bitt
On Wednesday, Elon Musk gave an update on the advancement of his Neuralink brain implant/interface project. In the update, he noted he expects to begin clinical trials in six months, and he hopes one of the first targeted applications will be in restoring vision.
Based in Austin, Texas and the San Francisco Bay Area, Neuralink is developing implantable chips which will be designed to interface directly with the human brain. It is hoped the technology will ultimately allow paralyzed patients to regain motor movement, and ultimately, help meld human brains with computers.
Thus far the company has been conducting animal tests on monkeys, as it moves toward seeking US regulatory approval to conduct clinical trials in humans.
During the update Musk said, “We want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device into a human but we’ve submitted I think most of our paperwork to the FDA and we think probably in about six months we should be able to have our first Neuralink in a human.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The company hopes to first pursue two different applications – restoration of vision, and enabling movement of muscles in people unable to do so. Musk said, “Even if someone has never had vision, ever, like they were born blind, we believe we can still restore vision.”
Originally scheduled for October 31st, Musk had postponed the update without reason. At the last Neuralink public update, Musk had unveiled a monkey who played a videogame by thinking alone, and manipulating his brain implant with his neurons directly.
Musk’s ultimate goals with Neuralink are to interface the human brain with computers. From there, it should be possible to allow those suffering from paralysis
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I know there are potentially significant downsides (as there are with many developments in medicine/tech), but if I were paralyzed and/or blind I suspect I’d be strongly inclined to try it at some point.
Transhumanism anyone? Wait for the DNA alteration on a mass scale. The covid jabs are for thinning the herd, the DNA changes will be a different animal and it will not be forgiven.
Will the day come where you can be hacked and taken over?
Will the process be covered by insurance/Medicare?
It would be nice to play the piano by thinking the notes. Tedious moving my fat fingers on a keyboard. Same goes for computer keyboards - no more mistajes.
Have you ever heard of a hack proof network? The only way you won’t be hacked is to never connect to a network which defeats the purpose of this evil/Borg/Cylon nutbaggery.
Yo. Panic puppy.
Suppose you tell me...
... are people with pacemakers transhumans?
Cochlear implants?
Artificial hearts?
Implant-controlled prosthetic limbs?
Where’s this ‘transhuman’ line drawn, anyway?
And why are you so spooked?
Look again at our voters and our leaders. That day arrived a few years ago.
There are networks where you do not connect to them. They connect to you. They used to call those a “call back” connection. Standard communications protocols were not used. Those never got hacked. Young ones today do not know how to write private protocols.
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