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Neuralink: Streaming Music to the Brain
I wanted to share thoughts about predictions I’ve heard related to Neuralink: these range from Neuralink giving us the ability to stream music directly to our brains to Neuralink developing a full cyborg robot-human.
The likelihood of the second prediction coming true depends on how you define a cyborg. If you’re thinking half-man, half-machine with robot arms or legs and therefore super-human strength, that seems pretty unlikely in my opinion. However, if you’re thinking Neuralink could enable us to have super-human brains, I think that’s pretty likely.
Neuralink is working on the tech that will support building super-human brains, but right now, that application is not their priority. Instead, the team wants to focus on curing a variety of brain disorders like Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s, dementia, and depression.
When it comes down to it, humans are effectively just our brains with a handful of useful limbs to carry out what our brains want us to do. Our entire lives are practically just our brains; I can back this up by a thought exercise: imagine you’re 100 years old and your physical body has deteriorated so significantly that you can’t move. That would be an unpleasant life, but it could still be pretty fulfilling as long as there are others around or tools to help you do what you want to do. However, if you’re…
