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Neuralink: brain hacking is exceptionally hard, no matter what Elon Musk says – The Conversation UK
Decades of research have shown that the brain does not yield its secrets easily.
If thoughts, feelings and other mental activities are nothing more than electrochemical signals flowing around a vast network of brain cells, will connecting these signals with digital electronics allow us to enhance the abilities of our brains?
Thats what tech entrepreneur Elon Musk suggested in a recent presentation of the Neuralink device, an innovative brain-machine interface implanted in a pig called Gertrude. But how feasible is his vision? When I raised some brief reservations about the…
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