Re:Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up...
by gambiting on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @07:02AM
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But it won't, unless Musk somehow figures out how to "write" information to your brain, and right now we can't even fully figure out how the information is stored, much less how to write it back - the way this will most likely work is that you will search something on google by thinking about it, and it will "appear" in your vision by stimulating your visual nerve. You still have to read it and remember it, you won't magically know Kung-Fu Matrix-style by thinking about it.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up...
by XorNot on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:34AM
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That's not substantially better then "easier" technology - i.e. something non-invasive but advanced, like contact lenses with a lightfield display and wireless power.
But if you're going to be interfacing with the brain, then there's a lot we can do probabilistically - i.e. deliberately inducing different parts of the memory centers of the brain to promote recall, targeted to the patterns of activation at previous times.
Modifying the production of neurotransmitters or being able to deliberately dampen some would also lead to some interesting possibilities.