Brain Hacking! Paralyzed People Can Do Normal Things Like Normal People Do, How Come?
For a long time, genius scientists have been trying to create something that can control humans, given the rapid development of technology. One of them is what Elon Musk did with his team. He’s working on an effort to be able to connect humans through the brain and computers through his start-up, Neuralink is a neurotechnology company founded in July 2016, developing implantable brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) and founded by Elon Musk and others. In his speech in 2019, he said that the company had already developed a system “like a sewing machine”, that is able to connect the human brain directly to the computer.
In August 2020, Neuralink showed off his working brain chip device in a pig named Getrude. The chip allows the computer to detect the pig’s activity when it touches an object, where the recording is presented in graphic form and a ‘tut’ sound is displayed on the screen. Neuralink also managed to train a monkey to play video games using its chip implanted brain. In a video uploaded by Neuralink early last year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCul1sp4hQ&feature=youtu.be)they show footage of a monkey who can play a game of ping-pong using only the power of his mind.
Elon Musk considers that the brain chip from Neuralink can be a true metaverse, not a virtual world accessed via VR like those developed by Facebook or Microsoft. “Brain chip implants integrated with computer interfaces are the future of technology,” Musk said in an interview with The Babylon Bee in December 2021. The Neuralink brain chip or brain-machine interface (BMI) chip allows people to interact with computers simply by thinking telepathically. It is hoped that it can help paralyzed people to control digital devices such as cellphones to personal computers by harnessing the power of brain waves, more quickly, even though they can’t move their fingers. Technically, the recipient of the brain implant must first perform a minor operation to allow the chip to enter the human skull. This small chip is expected to help control motor and other brain functions.
The chip is expected to help solve a number of neurological problems, from memory loss, stroke, addiction, to simply monitoring a user’s health or alerting them of a heart attack.
Here’s How Brain Chips Work:
Neuralink claims that its electrode system works very well. Human hands cannot implant it, so they developed a robotic system to incorporate this technology exactly where it is needed. The device, called Link, will be able to record the activity of these neurons from 1024 electrodes and is designed to meet these criteria. The link will also perform real-time spike detection on each channel, his data will all be transmitted wirelessly, and send that information to the Link.
As the first application of this technology, they plan to help people with severe spinal cord injury by giving them the ability to control computers and mobile devices directly with their brains. Started by recording neural activity in the brain’s movement areas. As users think about moving their arms or hands, they would decode those intentions, which would be sent over Bluetooth to the user’s computer. Users would initially learn to control a virtual mouse. Later, as users get more practice and the adaptive decoding algorithms continue to improve, they expect that users would be able to control multiple devices, including a keyboard or a game controller.
Bottom Line
Now that BMI wireless connection is getting ready to be tested, Neuralink is hiring a clinical trial director and coordinator for a project to implant a chip into the human brain. Elon Musk also confirmed that the standards applied to Neuralink for implanting devices are much higher than those demanded by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). So, what do you think about the Link?
