Did you ever hear about Neural Lace technology or Neuralink company?
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk. Which is working on creating an
importable brain-computer interface. Elon Musk in April of 2017 said that company aims to make
devices to treat serious brain diseases with the eventual goal of human enhancement. Neural Lace
technology stands for "human enhancement". This technology will allow humans to connect their
brains with Artificial Intelligence. And even if it sounds like a Sci-Fi Novel it could be our near future.
Neural Lace is an ultra-thin mesh that can be implanted in the skull, forming a collection of electrodes
capable of monitoring brain function. It creates an interface between the brain and the machine. So
ultimately it is an interface which will provide us with faster connectivity with our computer which will
increase our brain possibilities. And as result, we will become cyborgs.
importable brain-computer interface. Elon Musk in April of 2017 said that company aims to make
devices to treat serious brain diseases with the eventual goal of human enhancement. Neural Lace
technology stands for "human enhancement". This technology will allow humans to connect their
brains with Artificial Intelligence. And even if it sounds like a Sci-Fi Novel it could be our near future.
Neural Lace is an ultra-thin mesh that can be implanted in the skull, forming a collection of electrodes
capable of monitoring brain function. It creates an interface between the brain and the machine. So
ultimately it is an interface which will provide us with faster connectivity with our computer which will
increase our brain possibilities. And as result, we will become cyborgs.
But do you ever think that we already enhance our brain with computers and even smartphones?
For example notes, photos, videos, appointments in a calendar is a much better storage than your
brain and it increases our brain potential. Your smartphone can make complex math calculations in
seconds or connect to servers which will do much more complex calculations, which will take you a
lot of time to do it by your own. It can surf the internet in order to serve you more up to date information about the weather in a country where you are planning to go or road traffic. So smartphones are already a robotic part of us, so we are already cyborgs with low-speed connectivity with our mechanical part, due to limited speed with which we are typing...
For example notes, photos, videos, appointments in a calendar is a much better storage than your
brain and it increases our brain potential. Your smartphone can make complex math calculations in
seconds or connect to servers which will do much more complex calculations, which will take you a
lot of time to do it by your own. It can surf the internet in order to serve you more up to date information about the weather in a country where you are planning to go or road traffic. So smartphones are already a robotic part of us, so we are already cyborgs with low-speed connectivity with our mechanical part, due to limited speed with which we are typing...
Do you agree with the statement that we are cyborgs in the context presented above?
Do you think that Neural Lace technology has a future, or it only a science fiction?
Would you like to use Neural Lace?
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I am a huge supporter of transhumanism, because in my opinion our flesh is weak. We have all the resources now to work on enhancement of what we have as our bodies, but for some reason, we only have a few ideas, like Neural Lace. My only fear, concerning transhumanism is the tone of social problems it will bring. Discrimination by artificiality, how do you like that? That's some "Detroit: Become Human" kind of stuff. But the potential is huge and I hope that, despite all the possible failures, the positive outcome will be justified.
I think that the development of such companies is the future. Even if it does not achieve its goal, it is sure that research will expand knowledge in the field of bioinformatics.
Yes, if Neural Lace would exist, I would like to try it.
As for myself, I don't know if I ready to try it. It's a little bit scaring.
I think companies such as Neural Lace definitely have bright futures before them. I feel human enhancement will become more needed and more mainstream with the coming years. I just hope the law keeps up with the innovation to prevent catastrophic results.
I would like to use Neural Lace myself, but only after a thousand other people have used it before me. I definitely don’t want to be a guinea pig.
In my opinion, companies like Neural Lance have great potential. It is only matter of time when people will merge their brains with computers, maybe in 5, 10 or even 100 years but it I think it will eventually happen. Human brain is essentially outstanding asynchronous neural network which can adapt, learn and what is more important, it can create new ideas. However it is relatively weak when it comes to fast calculations and our “animal” body has a lot limitations when it comes to data access. If we omit our eyes, ears and other natural receptors, and connect computers directly to brains we may get ability to perform extremely complicated calculations in real time and instant access to any data, for example the internet, which is more or less collection of all human knowledge. I think that it is the future, so I would be extremely happy if I get access to Neural Lance.
No, I don't. I think term cyborg is misused in this case.
Do you think that Neural Lace technology has a future, or it only a science fiction?
Of course it has a future. In this way we can enhance power of our brains and invent even greater things.
Would you like to use Neural Lace?
I think I would like to try it, but if it is supposed to be permanent - then no.
I guess there is a future for Neural Lace. Just by looking at nowadays technologies where for people who lost their sight or hearing. Right now, using special electronic tools it is possible to bring those feelings back.
Probably yes, I would do it. Just under the condition if it was tested well )
What if think about the decision to use Neural Lace in the context that everyone around already uses it. And this is must have improvement in order to be competitive in business or science.
It's hard to say for now if Neural Lace technology has a future but this technology can change a lot.
I would like to try Neural Lace- it's sounds interesting.
As for how impactful the Neural Lace technology is going to be, I'm honestly not sure. It's entirely possible that it will end up having a huge impact on our world and technology, but right now, it's too early to say for sure. It might very well end up being a failure due to economic or technological problems.
When it comes to using the technology personally, I would definitely not want to use it in it's early stages, as I feel like it would be too risky to use something that is untested. However, I would certainly be interested in it once it becomes safe and popular enough to the point that everyone can get one.
A cyborg (/ˈsaɪbɔːrɡ/) short for "cybernetic organism") is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts according to wiki. This is simply not according to the word description.
Do you think that Neural Lace technology has a future, or it only a science fiction?
Gonna be really great to try that technology and a lot of things would be much more fun like games that would feel real or work that can be done few hundred times faster
Would you like to use Neural Lace?
That would be definitely fun although I would wait till technology used by others to make sure lack of health issues after using.
2. I think it might has a feature, but it wil take a lot of time for this to became available for "normal" people
3. Yes, but I woudln't like to be one of the testers
Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers. We are building a team of multidisciplinary experts passionate about making a world-changing impact.
some basic, random words for dumb people. ultra-high bandwidth - why not ultra-low?
Do you agree with the statement that we are cyborgs in the context presented above?
Not because of smartphones. Its just technology, little gadget that you can use to communicate.
Do you think that Neural Lace technology has a future, or it only a science fiction?
Would you like to use Neural Lace?
It has a future, but not nearest. We still struggle with basic diseases like flu. And they are talking about connecting brains to a machine?
In my opinion, these technologies of the future are, I think, the most sense. It is possible to do this and it has an amazingly huge development potential, but I would not use it because of the underdevelopment and the possibility of failure.
Nope, I don't think that I or others are cyborgs. Argument in your text just don't speak to me. We use devices to make our life easier. people did the same with books, maps etc. 2000 years ago. Were they cyborgs? I don't think so.
Do you think that Neural Lace technology has a future, or it only a science fiction?
It have a great future, it could make our lifes easier, faster etc. But it will take a looooot of time to implement it. In some time I mean about 150 years? So this does not incude me, nor my children.
Would you like to use Neural Lace?
Would like to use it, but there is no possibility to do so.
Is not that right?
Cyborg, by definition is an organism, whose life processes are partially or fully realized by a machine. A smartphone doesn't really realize any of my life processes. It's definitelly not thinking for me. It's just a tool I use to acomplish some tasks - like communicating with other people or finding some information - just like a regular phone, a computer or some other devices.
So no, smartphone doesn't make us a cyborg.
Cyborgs do not have free will. I think that enhancing humans’ brains would be more of a drug, just like in the movies (e.g. Lucy / Limitless). Where after taking some substances they became some kind of a super human. They still had free will and were conscious and so that’s why I believe “cyborg” is not the right word.
2. Do you think that Neural Lace technology has a future, or it only a science fiction?
It certainly does. The question, however, is whether that is what we need?
3. Would you like to use Neural Lace?
I surely would. But I’m a bit worried that once I would have tried that it would be pretty hard getting back to the normal (in comparison to the enhanced) underperforming state of my brain.
2. It seems to me that this technology has the right to exist, however, is dangerous for humans. There is no guarantee that it will not want to control the human brain. In the near future, it will still seem like science fiction.
3. Definitely not. I want to have a sound mind and not be dependent on an electronic device in my head.
Yes, it’s definitely our future. Using direct connection between brain and computer will accelerate work of people.
Yes, after all tests I would like to use it.
Second question is very hard for me. I don't want to say that is impossible because everything has changed, people have money, especially Elon Musk, for explorations and that's why we have to be careful with saying about possible/impossible things.
I like new technologies but Neural Lace is something creepy for me. I can't imagine that, seriously! I'm okay with my body and I don't want to change it. I always thought that I'm brave...
2. I think that it has a future and it might be an important step in development of our civilization.
3. That is a hard question. I would have to really know details. How this thing works etc. Despite that, I think I would be still too scared to use it.
I would love to use Neural Lace because it would make me super human and math would become finally easy.
Yes, I think it could be a really near future, as you said they are working on it already so technology for that already exists they just need to solve some basic problems with that ( btw this topic reminds me about Black mirror- Netflix series there was a episode with artifical lens that worked similar to mentioned mesh).
I wouldn't be a tester for sure, I think injecting anything in your body is very dangerous ( not saying about vaccines ;) ), if this technology will be tested and 100 % safe, why not.