Mind-reading microchip that 'transforms lives' can be fitted within minutes

[Jonn]

Mind-reading microchip that 'transforms lives' can be fitted within minutes​

A doctor who was instrumental in developing a microchip that can convert brain signals into actions has made a bold statement about his Stentrode device, suggesting it could help around 100 million people.


Neurologist Tom Oxley, the leader of startup Synchron, thinks his invention could drastically change the lives of those who can't use their arms.

MSN

It may not stop there.
They were experimenting with mind-influencing chips in the brain on animals and humans.

José Rodríguez Delgado authored 134 scientific publications within two decades (1950–1970) on electrical stimulation on cats, monkeys and patients – psychotic and non-psychotic. In 1963, New York Times featured his experiments on their front page. Rodríguez Delgado had implanted a stimoceiver in the caudate nucleus of a fighting bull. He could stop the animal mid-way that would come running towards a waving flag.<a href="José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a>

Rodríguez Delgado's research interests centered on the use of electrical signals to evoke responses in the brain. His earliest work was with cats, but he later did experiments with monkeys and humans, including psychiatric patients.<a href="José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a><a href="José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>

Much of Rodríguez Delgado's work was with an invention he called a stimoceiver, a radio which joined a stimulator of brain waves with a receiver which monitored EEG waves and sent them back on separate radio channels. Some of these stimoceivers were as small as half-dollars.

José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado - Wikipedia

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Neuralink Neuralink — Pioneering Brain Computer Interfaces is doing something similar for quadraplegia, and now, for blindness. Further applications to follow.

 

[FilterFreq]

I hate to sound so incredibly optimistic all the time, but I bet this will actually be used for a lot of medical issues and genuinely help people. The downside? It'll cost way too much for most people to afford, unless they have the best insurance in the world.

The more sinister stuff people are worried about with 'mind control'? It's already happening now via social media, so nobody's going to be paying for your next expensive brain surgery (unless, again, you've got some great insurance and sign a waiver). They can (and do) get the job done for a lot cheaper without that operation.

I do think that whoever's involved with that beta program should be getting paid a lot, though. Having a 'humans only' rule would probably be the most ethical choice too, but unfortunately helping people with medical research can come at a cost sometimes.

I also remember the weird 'remote controlled cockroach' that was in the news 20-ish years ago. I haven't heard anything new, but that's a long time to be able to work on something while the world totally forgot that somebody figured out how to control a live cockroach remotely.

 

[Jonn]

The more sinister stuff people are worried about with 'mind control'? It's already happening now via social media,

There is, and has always been, corrupt, inhumane, 'criminal' activity by authorities, that isn't publicly acknowledged.
"The ends justifies the means" is king here, unfortunately.

 

[Cryptid]

Imagine the technology that allows a paralyzed person to not only regain movement, but to regain the sensations as well.

Now imagine that everyone is fitted with this same technology. Suddenly, a suspect to a crime finds himself paralyzed and unable to resist arrest when the cops come to pick him up. Suddenly, a woman who refuses to submit to her boss's lecherous desires finds herself unable to resist his advances. Suddenly, a classroom full of unruly children feels as if every one of their nerve endings is on fire. Suddenly, the elderly person who can no longer afford medical care simply drops dead for no apparent reason.

Welcome to our Brave New World.

 

[Jonn]

Imagine the technology that allows a paralyzed person to not only regain movement, but to regain the sensations as well.

Now imagine that everyone is fitted with this same technology. Suddenly, a suspect to a crime finds himself paralyzed and unable to resist arrest when the cops come to pick him up. Suddenly, a woman who refuses to submit to her boss's lecherous desires finds herself unable to resist his advances. Suddenly, a classroom full of unruly children feels as if every one of their nerve endings is on fire. Suddenly, the elderly person who can no longer afford medical care simply drops dead for no apparent reason.

Welcome to our Brave New World.

And remote hypnotic trance induction is a wery, wery bad thing.