I have mixed feelings about Elon’s Neuralink. Just read a bit of the abstract.

“Neuralink’s first steps toward a scalable high-bandwidth BMI system. We have built arrays of small and flexible electrode “threads”, with as many as 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 threads.”

I’m curious, will this be this be the next “form of cognition”?

It will take a lot of training and or evolution to make it work.

@Gregozor2121 I’m honestly so grateful to be young in this era to see this advancement slowly manifesting!

I am a little bit scared about this. Not for the tech itself, but for the fact that it's located in USA.

No offense for citizens intended, but we know what that government and 1% are capable of...

He's talked about it working like another layer of cognition on top of the cortex. So I guess that the idea is that you're somehow gonna be able to "Google" with your mind.

Well, are we far enough that we can think of a single simple object and the thought can be formatted into a word from... let's say half a minute of raw data?

I really don't know what they have accomplished and haven't read the papers. But the "consumer" EEG devices and data analysis software was not too futuristic a year ago when I last looked to buy one of those headsets for tinkering.

I watched video and don’t know if it will work for something good.
Same with facebook mind reader.

I am more interested in connectome progress as it can tell if it’s only brain responsible for everything or there is something more.