Ready To Take The Plunge: Thousands of People Willing To Let Elon Musk’s Neuralink Chip Their Brain!
We’ve seen science fiction movies and TV shows where humans and machines become one – think Terminator or Robocop. While this might seem like a far-fetched reality, the fact is: Elon Musk’s Neuralink is looking for a volunteer willing to go under the knife and get brain chip implants.
This marks Neuralink’s first clinical trial, and as Bloomberg/Ashlee Vance reports, Neuralink wants someone willing to let the company surgically open part of their skull, insert a series of electrodes and thin wires into their brain.
Furthermore, this procedure would be performed entirely with the help of a robot. According to the report, “When the robot is completed, the missing piece of skull will be replaced by a computer the size of a quarter, which is supposed to stay there for years.” The task of this computer would be to analyze the volunteer’s brain activity and send the data wirelessly to a laptop or tablet.
Vance points out that this is a fairly new process in medicine, but thousands of volunteers still seek the procedure. However, the ideal candidate must be under the age of 40 and have paralysis in all four limbs.
What is Neuralink trying to achieve with this experiment?
Vance notes that Neuralink essentially aims to read a person’s thoughts as commands through a computer, allowing the computer to understand those commands and create a kind of machine-human hybrid.
These people would be able to upload and download information from storage and even transmit it to other brains. While this sounds straight out of a science fiction movie, Neuralink wants to achieve just that.
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