A few thoughts to hopefully clarify my confusion are (1) we can only accept a certain volume of information at any given time (2) while there is electrical activity in the brain, when we observe this, it’s often related to external stimuli [of course there is activity we can observe outside of this realm to] and (3) it takes effort to actually learn / develop neural pathways that can be useful for us in any way.
A lot of these devices (BMIs) are useful in medical conditions, but can we ever expect these to actually have recreational advantages, like to be used during conversations, ‘read’ a book, go on a weird machine induced trip, etc.
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I’m typing this on a laptop, because it offers me greater bandwitdh with regards to typing then it would if I were writing the same reply from a cell phone. I suck at typing but I definitely type slower than I speak. I also speak slower than I think.
Imagine how quickly I could communicate if my thoughts were automatically transcribed to the screen…
What if I could record an idea? Thinking about it in a way I can communicate would be slow, but what if I could transfer the idea itself. Something like this may still be 100 years away, but imagine how we could communicate with each other.
The next ten years will be mostly research and mapping. The implant itself only covers a small area of the brain.
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