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Even among neuroscientists there will be disagreements about what is possible when. Seems to me this is a circular problem, until somebody comes along and does
by nickik 6y ago
Even among neuroscientists there will be disagreements about what is possible when.
Seems to me this is a circular problem, until somebody comes along and does the miniaturization and figures out all the software and systems you need, no serious progress will be made.
- tsimionescu 6y agoHow about first trying to understand how the handful of neural cells in a jelly fish of worm can guide the animal to food and allow it to avoid danger, before trying to imagine we could help human beings recover their memory?
- nickik 6y agoIf you are so much better at solving these problem and your approach is so much superior go compete against them. If somebody is willing to dump 100M into making break-threw medical advances I'm not gone question their approach unless I am really, really sure I actually know better.
- tsimionescu 6y agoWell, unfortunately, unlike Elon Musk I didn't have rich parents, connected friends, or the luck to be part of a really great startup idea, so I don't really have 100M to spend on my own fantasies. But the fact that someone is willing to put money into a fantasy will not make it a reality. As I said elsewhere, I am truly hopeful that much good will come out of Neuralink in the area of helping people with motor problems and prosthetics. I absolutely commend this goal and am happy to see more people invest in this area. But that doesn't mean money will magically supplant the decades or more of research we still need to do to until we can meaningfully even think about what thought means at a physical level. And just because Musk has delusions of grandeur about the way he will change the world, enough so as to put his money where his fantasies lie, is no reason to start believing in the same things.