WHAT I THINK IS THE FUTURE FOR NEURALINK
so, since this IS a free space for science elon? let me discuss what I think is the future of Neuralink.
I'll do it with a simple analogy.
the human eye will never be transplanted in a million years. how can I back up a statement like that? follow along.
1.2 the connection between the eye and the brain is the optic nerve that is about a mm in diameter. it holds about 1.2 million nerve fibers. imagine a telephone cable that you cut and then try to reattach. doesn't every line to a different number have to be re-attached correctly?
1.3 exactly the same with the human eye replacement. the optic nerve MUST be cut. then, the NEW eye with its new optic nerve MUST be re-attached. all 1.2 million fibers. everyone in the correct orientation. but guess what? the aren't labelled. each nerve fiber looks like the next.
1.4 you would have to connect all 1.2 million nerve fibers from the eye donor to the 1.2 million nerve fibers in the optic nerve on the recipient -- in the exact right ORIENTATION. and i would suspect tissues would start dying within an hour, but I'll generously give you four hours.
1.5 in four hours, you would have to connect, NOT nerves, but NERVE FIBERS that are extremely thin, 1.2 MILLION nerve fibers in a span of 4 hours. in a tiny little space, with at most 3 surgeons surrounding the patient.
1.6 each surgeon would have to re-attach 100,000 nerve fibers per hour for four hours, and IDENTIFY the CORRESPONDING FIBER on EACH END. the surgeon would be lucky to find 2 and connect two properly.
1.7 I'll be generous and say he can do 60. oh, but we are FAR far from 100,000 aren't we?
some things can NEVER be done no matter HOW amazing science is. those are what we call theoretical limits. and eye transplantation? will NEVER be done in a million years.
1.8 Neuralink will face similar issues. being an eye surgeon, it's easier to use an eye analogy. but SAME fundamental problem.
see Elon? gotta THINK about things before TWEETING.
I love this. Scientists sometimes have a god complex; thinking they can put the equivalent of a sponge into a human head and call it a replacement brain. They say they don't believe in God, and yet they don't seem to believe in nature/evolution, either.
Do you think Elon believes ai will be able to transplant the human eye?
As a side note, at UC Davis research lab every animal his researchers hooked up to that bmi from the monkeys dying terrible deaths to the pigs who die whenever they try to withdraw the probes into the brain since fibers grow around the probes, he still says human trials will be this year? The fda denied the application since he couldn't show no brain injury if probes are removed, opposite actually.