Re:Nikola’s founder steps down from board as company faces f...
by valuearb on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:56PM
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Autism is a broad spectrum of behaviors, but one consistent symptom is not being able to “quiet” excess stimuli (as I write this my daughter exhibits her self stimulation behavior by running back and forth across our family room).
I could potentially see such a thing working for, say, epilepsy, where we might be able to "mute" or counter a stimuli that causes seizure, but, at least for the forseeable future, I don't see "brain chips" working in contexts other than concrete causal links, stimuli, reaction/response mechanisms - I think one hint is that there's nothing we can do to "medicate" autism. Medications currently used are for "byproducts" of ASD, such as ADHD, anxiety, not the disorder itself. Indeed, the closest (and we're not particularly close) we have come to thinking of how to manage ASD is gene therapy, which wouldn't be manageable by a "brain chip".