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The surgery needed to install the chip is itself detrimental to your IQ. The brain was not made to be exposed to air. You don’t get your skull opened up unless
by goodside 7y ago
The surgery needed to install the chip is itself detrimental to your IQ. The brain was not made to be exposed to air. You don’t get your skull opened up unless there’s no other option — these are patients who were already forced into this circumstance.
- nexuist 7y agoCould you not e.g. operate in an artificial vacuum using oxygen masks? If open skull surgery is so detrimental to IQ, why is this not done? I understand there's a cost factor but given the scale of medical expenses, it seems within the realm of possibility?
- andrey_utkin 7y agoBecause brain and other body tissues normally have internal pressure of 1 atmosphere, so if you put it into vacuum, it will explode and blood and other liquids will boil.
- gruez 7y agoHe probably means some sort of inert gas to minimize the effects of air exposure.
- guywhocodes 7y agoCould use argon in a vat shaped system and continuously push in more to wash out any oxygen following the tools. Could probably be done with very little oxygen touching the brain if we really want to build the tools.
- p1esk 7y agoThe surgery needed to install the chip is itself detrimental to your IQ. Citation?