Would you hook up your brain directly to a computer? Before answering that question, think about the positives and negatives. On the one hand, you’d have instant access to all the knowledge that Google can reach. On the other hand, every thought and impulse you had would be trackable. Brain Computer Interfaces are still a nascent technology, but they hold immense implications for the future. On this episode, Damien and I talk about some of the core concepts behind BCIs, and then delve into some of the exciting tech that’s out there, including Musk’s Neuralink.
here are some resources we talk about:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703801v4
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5409179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115612/
