Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks agoI feel like I’m going nuts, is eye controlled adaptive tech really that obscure? We’re not talking about maybe letting people walk again or giving them otherwise unattainable control over a computer, we’re talking about a different mouse input. The risks should be proportional to the gains.
inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
Can you take a moment and imagine some possibilities of taking input directly from someone’s mind and applying it without needing to use your body? I know moving a mouse doesn’t seem impressive, but it demonstrates success at a technological concept that still seems impossible. I can’t speak for the ethics because I don’t know how voluntary the subjects are for the research, but this is very exciting for me, because it will inevitably become more sophisticated.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Cool, when you can upload your thoughts somewhere we’ll be having a different conversation about its risks and uses. But what’s happening right now is that they did brain surgery on a man to let him move a computer mouse.
inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
Do you think we’ll get to that advanced level of use without experiments? And do you think that it was wrong that this is wrong despite consent to the procedure?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I don’t accept that disabled people must be sacrificed at the altar of Progress, and I think the entire process for how they recruit patients and explain the capabilities and risks of the implant deserves extreme scrutiny. There’s a reason doctors have to get hours of education in ethics to be considered competent, it’s a lot more complicated than “just do whatever if it can technically work for a bit.”