Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month agoCool, 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.”
inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Your criticisms are reasonable ones.