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Yeah, I've been working on a BCI explainer and this is a critical point. The science isn't even close, either in hardware, software, or even basic brain knowled
by devindotcom 9y ago
Yeah, I've been working on a BCI explainer and this is a critical point. The science isn't even close, either in hardware, software, or even basic brain knowledge.
Of course, it's kind of one of those situations where you need the knowledge to get the knowledge, but we'll break the cycle somehow!
- gene-h 9y agoI wouldn't be too worried about the software, the human brain is pretty good at adapting to things. A great demonstration of this was an experiment where congenitally blind people were able to 'see' by sitting in a chair with an array of 400 vibrating pads.[0] There has also been some success on the software side with hippocampal prostheses[1]. All in all it's pretty simple stuff, we've been able to reverse engineer the transfer function for part of the hippocampus, so if that region is damaged we can emulate it with an implant and some matlab code. I would say that this is the end of the beginning for BCIs. [0]https://tcnl.bme.wisc.edu/laboratory/founder https://tcnl.bme.wisc.edu/laboratory/founder [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampal_prosthesis#Recent_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampal_prosthesis#Recent_...