BrainGate

One of the most elite, heavily scrutinized, peer-reviewed scientific journals in existence.

They published the results of the BrainGate2 trial.

BrainGate2 is the realization of the telekinetic dream, but achieved through agonizingly precise biological and technological integration.

Let's talk about the details.

The article notes they worked with two individuals who were completely paralyzed by strokes.

It's an electrical highway.

Precisely.

But in the patients in the BrainGate2 trial, a stroke had basically severed that biological highway.

Of course, you know, brain computer interface is really challenging because the brain doesn't know how to integrate it.

Back in the old days at BrainGate up in, uh, you know, Providence, Rhode Island, you know, you're jacking needles into biological material, and they're trying to kind of proxy these things out and, and the, the way to kind of cross that chasm has, has always had challenges and probably will continue to.

But it, it sounds like this biological computation idea might let us figure out more ways to symbiotize, more ways to knit in what is now the non-biological into this analog computing sort of, uh, cognition system, and maybe that can work all the way up to the level of our brains and our bodies as well.

I mean, is, is this what you think we might be getting closer to?

Well, I think that when we move from just cursor control, that's how we started.

our first BrainGate human subjects, first one in 2004.

He was a spinal cord injured individual, and he was controlling a cursor to surf the web, check his emails, and he used vision, and it worked.

We definitely, proof of principle, it worked.