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David Eagleman: ‘The working of the brain resembles drug dealers in Albuquerque’
- h2odragon 5y ago> But the mythology of Neuralink is that this is something we can all use to interface faster with our cellphones. I’d certainly like to text 50 percent faster, but am I going to get an open-head surgery? No, because there’s an expression in neurosurgery: when the air hits your brain, it’s never the same. If "type faster" is a goal, where are the classes for people seeking to do that? Even though one's innate reflex speed is probably limited, it's almost unheard of for people to use anything close to that capability in everyday activities, so why aren't people trying to get their finger twitch speed up with physical practice? I think "type faster" actually means "communicate faster"; and as Dr. Eagleman points out here the process of "communication" is mostly internal, preparing to emit a burst of noise we hope will be found meaningful. We don't have a lot of discipline on how to do that better, ourselves, so making machines to assist is going to be the realm of cranks and scams for a while.