Neuralink Test Monkey Horror Ignored.

[quintessentone]

Accidents happen. 

The type of technology you are proposing is a bit further down the line than Neuralink.

I think they did something similar in an old episode of Babylon 5, all the same, to a mass murderer.

Was that the episode where they lobotomized him to become a good janitor?

[Maxmars]

Not sure why you posted that.
Neuralink is not synthetic biology.
Maybe you didn't read what I posted.

Harte

This doesn't answer your  first question...

But as to the second "Neuralink is not synthetic biology."

I cannot agree.

I can't reconcile juxtaposing technology meant to bleed energy into and out of living tissue as anything other than "unnaturally synthetic."  

This is not a judgement, it is an observation: 
"synthetic" is a word which implies a deviation...
constructive though it may be.

We only have our biological forms, such as they are, largely because of a true synthesis of two life forms that became mitochondria.  That's synthesis...

This is a conceptual projection of slick marketing*, doing the usual abusive gestalt of 'telling' us what the technology is... using pretty words and cool ideas...

Neuralink is the "baseline" in this industry... the rest is marketing.

They are hardly the first , and will not be the last to claim "we've perfected it... give us money!"

* - "AI," anyone, anyone?

[Harte]

Doesn't matter what you can't agree to.
There is a field called synthetic biology, and they are not in the business of implanting chips in anything.

Harte

[Maxmars]

Doesn't matter what you can't agree to.
There is a field called synthetic biology, and they are not in the business of implanting chips in anything.

Harte

I never thought it should matter to you.  Sorry if that seemed somehow implied.

Yes, synthetic biology is a fascinating engineering discipline.  But the "end" is not about making believe that a "synthesis of man and machine" is the aim.  Right now, presuming all the experimental tech remains nominally effective, no one will ever be 'born*' with tech in them... thus "synthesis" is just marketing hyperbole as it is used in the press releases.


* Perhaps better said "no fetus results in tech" (with a big fat "yet" tacked on.)

Of course, this is all opinion and thus, dismiss-able by default.

[ElitePlebeian]

Strange logic to say it should not be approved because there were horrible test results. The question is if they learned from it, thats why they use monkeys first, and I guess they did since there are already people with implants. I thought the first guy was on Joe Rogan.