Could Neural Lace Connect Our Brains To The Internet?

Elon Musk is funding research towards "neural lace," a brain computer interface technology that could allow our brains to compete with AI.


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Elon Musk Hints at New Brain-Computer Project
"The Journal reported that the new startup will focus on "neural lace" technology which involves implanting tiny brain electrodes capable of uploading and downloading thoughts. The report said Musk has taken an active role setting up the company and may play a 'significant leadership role' even as he runs two other large companies. Musk has previously spoken about the idea of neural lacing, claiming it can magnify people's brain power by linking them directly to computing capabilities."

Elon Musk is setting up a company that will link brains and computers
"Billionaire futurist space explorer Elon Musk has a new project: a ''medical research company' called Neuralink that will make brain-computer interfaces. Musk's projects are frequently inspired by science fiction, and this one is a direct reference to a device called a 'neural lace,' invented by the late British novelist Iain M. Banks for his Culture series. In those books, characters grow a semi-organic mesh on their cerebral cortexes, which allows them to interface wirelessly with AIs and create backups of their minds."

Will This "Neural Lace" Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
"Smarter artificial intelligence is certainly being developed, but how far along are we on producing a neural lace? At the conference, Musk said he didn't know of any company that was working on one. But last year, a team of researchers led by Charles Lieber, the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, described in Nature Nanotechnology a lace-like electronic mesh that 'you could literally inject' into three-dimensional synthetic and biological structures like the brain."

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[Ric-Phillips]

Worth noting Iain Banks also wrote that a neural lace was the most effective device ever "invented" for torturing people.

[Mongofy]

must suck to get a computer virus in your brain

[tacoboer]

At the pharmacy I asked for 50 condom's. 2 girls behind me started laughing. I turned around, looked them straight in the eyes and said;
"Make that 52"

[doodelay]

This technology doesn't limit free will or erase individuality anymore than having smart phones connected to Wi-Fi.
Thinking faster and remembering things longer has nothing to do with creating a single "hive mind" as some are fearing.

Hive-minding in the real world is called "agreeing, " and there's nothing wrong with that. Further, no matter how connected we become there'll never come a time when every human will agree on every topic. This is because individuals have different interests, different preferences, and different goals which are unaligned more often then not.

So if you're going to fear this tech, fear it for some better reason.

[nidhinanil.]

☺Happy to see that old smile on trace's

[freemusicarchives]

I'd probably use it to download knowledge and increase my intelligence.

[Loopy_Kick]

It looks like the Ghost in the Shell age is coming. Can't wait to get a prosthetic body. =D

[AdvancedPlugins]

Another way for FBI to track us and what we do, yay!

[frankweienbach]

This is just the first step to an global united conscioussness

[XoeSara]

Warning:I am 14 years old
What i think is If our brains connect to the internet it means our brain would be hackable and sombody could kill you with a flick of a switch.

[neonxx]

Aand then a solar flare from the sun comes and emp's us to death

[Morec]

As much as I want this future, it feels like a very, very bad idea.

[mysticladyrachel]

Do you want cybermen? Cause that's how you get cybermen.

[uvbe]

Elon Musk is the most awesome human. Paypal, SpaceX, Hyperloop, Tesla and now Neuralink!

[djackson]

We are in a dangerous time. Our technology has evolved faster than our spirituality/humanity.
We should tread carefully.

[dpavlovsky]

My parents volunteered to have my brain implanted as a child. Throughout my childhood I endured psycho-sexual abuse at the hands of my family. All this was being recorded (child porn).

When I finally woke up to the abuse, the gangstalking “started”, i.e. it went from being covert to more “overt” —things like vehicular harassment, voice-to-skull, etc.

About ten years ago, I moved to CO from Austin. It was at this time, two men broke into my home while I was sleeping. They administered some type of paralysis drug, but they implanted me. I woke up and couldn’t move my body, but could hear the two talking, and mentioned that they would be going to another person’s home (a woman) to do the same thing.

And then a couple of years ago, an Emily Close moved in next door to me. On October 30th, I was implanted again on the left side of my skull. She moved out shortly after they successfully broke into my home while I was sleeping and implanted me.

My family are involved: Vladimir and Jana Pavlovsky (parents), Vladimir Spina (uncle who had top secret clearance at Lockheed Martin), Peter Spina (Freemason of the William McKinley lodge in NYC and owner of Goldseek.com. He was the one who molested me as child and after confronting him about it, the stalking amped up), Katherine and Peter Wagle (sister and brother-in-law. My sister made a comment about an interaction I had with Emily Close shortly after I was implanted even though she wouldn’t have had knowledge about it unless she was involved. She worked for Medtronics as well who manufacture these implants).

Stefan and Felicia Tucny and their neighbor Caroline are also involved. Stefan worked for Lockheed Martin. He was (or so I thought) a childhood friend of mine. He stabbed me in the back. When all this gangstalking started, Stefan and I went on a hike. He brought along his kid, Cypher, whom I’m almost positive he drugged. At the end of the hike, he mentioned that he had no photographs of his son and I. I had thought it an innocent request. He photographed me holding his passed out kid in the woods. Guaranteed this photo is being used to make me look like a pedophile. (He also hacked into my HostGator account.)

Vijay Harid is another person. He’s a professor at UC Denver whose working on a lot of neuroscience research for DARPA. I was an EE, and he made various comments that suggested that he knew what was going on and is actively involved in my electronic harassment. (Professor Tim Lei may be involved as well, but Anschutz Medical Center is definitely involved to some extent in this non-consensual human experimentation.) Most of the faculty in the EE department are involved including Tim Lei, Mark Golkowski (who was my thesis advisor) and Stephen Gedney (who does a lot of work for the NAVY).

As well as some other people in my life along the way (Cody Ray, Andrew Souby (went/goes (?) by Donald Remington on Facebook. He’s in the Army.), Allison Smith (went/goes (?) by Allison June on Facebook), Katherine Patricia Edling (could be Katherine Tomasetti now), Patrick Shaw, Signe Cluis, Jamison Lippolis, etc.) Most of ’em have ties to either military or defense contracting.

The names listed are just a few, mostly those who were closest to me and are involved in the program as perpetrators. I'm in the process of leaving the United States in order to obtain the necessary evidence to take the people to court.

[magus]

Jif peanut butter and saying Gift and Gift without the T settles the debate 100%.

[aodhanbreathnach]

my god. there will be no way to escape the ads. vevo and coca cola ads everywhere.

[joshisnot]

When you consider that in 97' the internet was still basically a research project gone public, it's not hard to believe this tech will be ubiquitous within the next 15-20 years.

Also, I don't see this as a way to "keep up" with AI. I see it as a mutual boon to make the relationship between AI and humans truly symbiotic.

[tmarti]

Like the tooth in the eye surgery, the skull can be thinned.  A ceramic implant with an electronic shutter is opened when a magnetic field or light source powers it.  This can allow light most likely near infrared to pass through the skull.  A greater variety of wavelengths are possible too.  This can be used without brain surgery to monitor and eventually image the brain continuously.  Today we would call this body modification not brain surgery, and probably cheaper than a single MRI.  Use micro bubbles in blood vessels and burst them to deliver photo sensitive virus and you have a treatment for:  Dystonia, Parkinson’s, depression, memory loss brain injury, and you have a full lasting BCI devise without any surgery.