Argument/Facts:

• There are pros and cons of Neuralink or anything similar to that.

• One goal is to allow humans to communicate telepathically or over long distances without mobile devices.

• If it succeeds, it will have a very big impact on people's lives and society in general.

Thoughts:

• There are pros and cons to Neuralink, the good thing is that it can help heal disabilities.

• I think it not very efficient for people who are perfectly healthy and can work normally.

Summary:

The cons have much more reasons why Neuralink is bad

• Cons:

  • High risk of brain infections and injuries

  • Abuse and misapplication is possible

  • Little research in the long term effects

  • Invasion of privacy

  • Unintened negative consequences like addiction, depression, or anxiety

  • Very expensive

  • Difficult to remove or repair

Can these neurological devices treat diseases, damage, and mental illness?

Argument/Facts:

• Researchers have designed a probe that looks, acts, and feels like a real neuron that the brain cannot identify as fake.

• Implanted into the brain tissue.

• Made to survive as long as possible in the warm and humid environment.

• Hidden sensors send data back to researchers.

• Says that it could treat neurological disorders like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

• Neurons look a bit like tadpoles

• Xiao Yang's team built a probe that is very similar to the neuron, the shape, size, and flexibility.

• Width of a neuron soma is about the same as a strand of hair (20 microns) and the tail can be 15 times finer.

• When Yang's team inserted about 16 of these cells in the following months they did not lose any connections but instead gained some.

• These new connections are signs of newborn cyborg neurons.

  
  

Thoughts:

• Xiao Yang and her work seems very trust worthy and reliable.

• I am exited to hear more about her work in the future.

  
  

Summary:

Xiao Yang and her team made little machines that imitate neurons of the brain so when they are implanted they cannot be detected. They have sensors that send information back into the computers, in her experiment she put 16 of these machines inside someones hippocampus region brain tissue (role in learning, memory, and aging) and for months she did not lose and signals from these devices instead she gained some from cyborg neurons.

Argument/Facts:

• Have to go through many tests to make sure it works correctly

• Restores functionality to people who've lost their connection between their brain and body.

• Did they already help someone to gain a function they lost?

• Another goal is to restore eye sight.

• If success, people will be able to see in different wavelenghts

Thoughts:

• Just from the first few minutes, Neuralink sounds risky. "We put a chip in your brain to control your mind," sounds very scary, people or computers being able to control you like a puppet is not the goal that I want.

• How can you assimilate the neurons in the cortex to restore vision?

  
  

Summary:

Neuralink will take a while to start off because you need a decade or so to test everything and make sure there arent any side effects that are very harmful. But in the short term it says that Neuralink will be able to restore functions that disabled people lost or increase the usage of them if it is partly damaged.

Argument/Facts:

• There are pros and cons of Neuralink or anything similar to that.

• One goal is to allow humans to communicate telepathically or over long distances without mobile devices.

• If it succeeds, it will have a very big impact on peoples lives and society in general.

Thoughts:

• There are pros and cons to Neuralink, but it is also very dangerous.

• I think it is best for people who actually need it like if they have a disability or disease.

Summary:

The pros and cons of Neuralink vary but it is good in some conditions and circumstances and not the best and not worth the stress and effects for others.

• Cons:

  • High risk of brain infections and injuries

  • Abuse and misapplication is possible

  • Little research on the long-term effects

  • Invasion of privacy

  • Unintended negative consequences like addiction, depression, or anxiety

  • Very expensive

  • Difficult to remove or repair