Thousands Line Up for the Chance to Get Elon Musk’s Neuralink Chip Installed in Their Brain. (Wonder who is in ‘that’ line?)
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Devil's Advocate Perspective:
People suffering from Parkinson's Disease like Michael J. Fox could potentially be cured by technology like this.
Not everything is a plot against humanity.
Some technologies can be used for good, as well as evil.
Consider that the original vaccines saved millions of lives, and indeed won us the Revolutionary War if you count President and General George Washington inoculating his troops against Smallpox using an early vaccine technique.
There is the potential for good and evil in every technology.
Elon Musk has proven at the very least that he is an agent of the White Hats, whether by choice or by force. He has done much for the cause of The Great Awakening, and so I believe we should give him a chance to do good with this technology.
There is some value for that, absolutely.
You just have to of course trust that it's a good thing and not at all planned for nefarious reasons and that is...very unlikely in the present.
It would be nice to see Parkinson's and similar cured in Michael J Fox's lifetime. He has spent a fortune on trying to help people from going through what he has. One of the nicest guys ever.
I agree with you on all points. I just wish there would be more studies done on simple treatments done with food and herbs. Problem is that there is no money to be made with that. I have a relative with Parkinson’s and found the research of Dr. Antonio Constantini. Interesting stuff with B1. Unfortunately the Dr. passed a couple years ago. He was in the process of trying to get studies done.
It's a dangerous game to play. If you study the brain in any detail, you come away with an appreciation for just how delicate it is. It is vulnerable to physical shocks. It is vulnerable to countless chemical imbalances. It is vulnerable to biological threats from viruses to bacteria to fungi, even prions (proteins).
When they talk about compromising the skull and replacing that hard bone tissue with a silicon wafer, it worries me. It needs to be more resilient than that if we don't want to have patients being asked to wear a helmet everywhere they go in case they bump that spot on their head.
The electrodes as well are potentially dangerous. The material itself has to be biological inert and non-reactive, or it'll irritate brain tissue along the entire pathway it is infiltrated. Further, something like this is a huge red flag for infection. Bacteria will rapidly follow such a track through tissue and an infection which might have been manageable suddenly becomes life-threatening. That's bad enough if we're talking about certain skin bacteria following veins or tendon sheaths up an extremity. It's unbelievably dangerous if something like that got into the brain. And the physical construction of the implant specifically bypasses basic biological defenses like the blood-brain barrier.
I don't know precisely what they're made of, but those wires pose a physical threat as well. Imagine one of these patients is involved in a rapid deceleration (like a car crash, or even a near miss where you slam hard on the brakes). The head is pulled forward by momentum, then whiplashes back when the car and the seat belt stop the head forcing it back. Those wires could act like garrote wire slicing through nearby nerve tissue if the material they're made out of is too inelastic or if they're anchored in some way to a target region of the brain.
I can see why thousands of people might sign up. Some might just be very adventurous, but I suspect the majority of them have debilitating neurological conditions and see this as a potential cure. But man, there's about a million ways to get this wrong and end up with people dying a very horrible death.
However, I agree with you on the white hat comment. This is technology that will eventually be developed, and it'd be far better if it's done out in the open, here in the US, where we have a culture of scientific openness, and reasonable moral constraints built into our laws than if it were developed in a place like a Chinese Uighur camp. The Chinese have already cloned human beings, ostensibly with the goal of producing organs on demand for "donations" without really considering the ethical concerns like we have in the West. At least with Elon in charge, we have a better chance of avoiding the worst of dystopian outcomes.