Elon Musk's Neuralink Brain Chip

Article # 96
Dated: 28th January 2022

I receive notifications of different news related to crypto, current affairs, the film industry, and technological innovation every day. I click on the news that I found interesting and ignore the news which does not seem interesting to me. The news was about Neuralink and honestly, I didn't know about Neuralink. I didn't even hear this word before. The news was about Scientists expressing concern over Elon Musk's Neuralink Brain Chip and their reviews about it weren't good. I thought this guy won't stop making people worried. 😂

I am sure everyone would know about Elon Musk. I know about his ventures SpaceX and StarLink. He is also a big investor in crypto but I didn't know he is also working on screwing our brains by giving the idea of inserting a brain chip. (Kidding 😂) So I thought I should search about Neuralink and find what Elon Musk is up to.

What is Neuralink Corporation

Neuralink Corporation is a neurotechnology company which is founded by Elon Musk and 8 others who are mostly experts in neuroscience, robotics, and biochemistry. It is launched in 2016 and it works on developing Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI is a device that can be used to communicate with computers only through brain activity).

So they have developed a chip that can be inserted into the brain by advanced specialized robots that will implant accurately this chip into the human brain. It wasn't possible for human hands to accurately implant it because the brain is the most sensitive part covered with nerves and one single mistake can result in disaster. That's why they have developed these robots for accurately installing these chips without any damage to the brain. The whole procedure would be quick and pain-free and it could take less than an hour. Neuralink Corporation claims that this chip can cure paralysis, deafness, blindness, mental illnesses other disabilities, and spinal cord problems.

This chip is planted in an area in the brain where there are no arteries so it won't affect any blood flow. This chip is 0.9 inches in size with a tiny bit of wires. Chip is chargeable it can be charged wirelessly and the battery can last for a full day. And it can be charged automatically during the night while a person is sleeping. NC has tested this chip on the pigs and the pigs show no abnormal functions which indicates that this chip does not do any harm to the body of living things.

How this Brain Chip can be used to interact with computers and other devices?

Once installed the device will be able to send and receive electrical signals through the brain and use these to control the machines. Our brain sends information to different parts of the body using information messengers called neurons. Neurons in the brain are connected with each other forming a network and communicating using chemical signals called neurotransmitters. This reaction generates an electric field that can be recorded by placing electrodes nearby. These electrodes translate these signals into algorithms that make them readable for computers.

Brain Chip can also be used for saving memories

Elon Musk has also claimed that they are working on using this chip for saving memories and we can also replay and restore them in our brain if we forget it. That's pretty ambitious but Elon Musk can do anything. He aims to bring revolution in the technology and is successfully doing it quite well.

Response from Neuroscientists

The response is kind of mixed. Some Neuroscientists are welcoming this new innovation but some have shown concerns over it.

I don't want to write about the negative reviews but if you want to read about what they say, click on the link below and read this article.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-horror-elon-musks-neuralink

But I would definitely write about one review of a neuroscientist named Dr. L. Syd Johnson as she said if the ultimate goal is to use the acquired brain to drives cars like Teslas then there might be a much much bigger market but they are exploiting people with genuine needs and used in risky research for some else's commercial gain.

My opinion is it's too early to say anything about this chip. Only time will decide if it gets successful or not. But surely, we will see what they predicted in the sci-fi movies. Like Neo in the matrix downloaded skills to his brain and I think one day the human brain will be able to do that too.

I do hope though one day someone will develop something which will be able to signal my brain to stop fighting against the titanium mesh implant and stop treating it like a bloody foreign object and tell my immunity system to take a rest for a bit and leave it alone, please. 😂

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