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And chips are just some metal and sand, yet we figured out a way to turn them into something very useful. After all, our brains themselves are just "some wires"

• platz 5y ago
  And theres a big difference between between a completely controlled environment like a chip and an uncontrolled environment relative to engineering like a brain. I think your missing the point about what I'm highlighting needs to happen after the wires are inserted into some otherwise unsuspecting tissue that isn't specially adapted for this use case in any particular way.
  • aeternum 5y ago
    Yes, the brain is very adaptable though. Consider for example that humans can learn to use neurons in our fingertip to read, via braille. It would be pretty easy even with today's tech to stimulate neurons similarly to braille touch which we know works, provides 125-200 words per minute. With some research there should be ways to increase that bandwidth significantly.
    • platz 5y ago
      > It would be pretty easy even with today's tech to stimulate neurons similarly to braille touch which we know works Citation needed