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everyone thinks it's pretty far away, i'm just glad someones taking a serious go at this

• tsimionescu 6y ago
  The people taking a serious go at trying to understand how the brain works are the ones trying to simulate a nematode brain, the ones working on understanding animal behaviors, the ones studying how infants acquire knowledge etc. These are all prerequisites for any kind of useful understanding that would allow us to build a working model of the brain and start imagining how to interface it more directly with other systems. Not doing the fundamental research and trying to pick up useful signals by arbitrarily choosing to focus on inter-neuron communication in a few areas of the exterior of the brain is unlikely to even advance our understanding one iota. We're learning much more about thought (not neuro-motor transmission, mind you!) from the people training slime molds to navigate mazes than we are learning from this. I'm glad though that there are more people working on perhaps helping people who have lost control of their bodies to regain it. That is an absolutely worthy goal that the team from Neuralink do have a hope of achieving in our lifetimes, and where I absolutely believe they can push the state of the art.