So when are we getting cybernetic implants?

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>>9001483
Just came to /sci/ to post this exact thing

Are we already part of the neuralink?

>>9001483
>wanting (((cybernetic implants)))
You know how easy it would be for Microsoft to take over your PC? Now apply that to your puny little brain when (((they))) offer you this shit. You've been warned

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>>9001483

>>9001483
Likely never. Rejection will be a constant problem with no foreseeable, viable, solution. Even deep brain implants made of carbon nanofibers still show signs of triggering irritation, inflammation, and the typical glial clumping you'd get with copper or anything else. The body is very hard to trick into accepting, or ignoring, foreign objects. For peripheral amputation sites it would prefer a tangled mass of schwann cells and malconnected axons, than a clean, coherent, interface.

I think expansion of human consciousness, and the concept of our immediate "body" and "self", will likely be more indirect. Perhaps pulsed microwave field induced VGCC activation, or something computational that works via standard bodily interfaces (senses and motor output), would be how it happens. In fact, it's how it has already happened, and always as happened. I do not think it will get closer without micromachines, self guided evolution, or genetic engineering. Think of it this way as well, most people's brains are already capable of vast untapped potential they've yet to be put into an environment that gives the means to discover and develop it. Perhaps VR will serve this purpose.

More likely we'll create God and render ourselves obsolete as far as "progress" goes, or simply kill ourselves off. Probably the latter. I think we're already being purged.

>>9001492
But they're shit and will be for the forseeable future
>>9002194
Nah, we've made some progress on implants that don't kill nerve cells. It will still take a while to do long term medical trials to see if it is safe
>>noninvasive stimulation
Oh fuck no. There is no way you can target individual neurons that way

It's called an electric vibrator.

>>9001483
My grandmother had one, probably longer than you've been alive. It was a pace maker.

>>9002083
Thats pretty accurate

>>9002083
me on the right

We know more about nerves and transmitting signals to the brain, and in time we will have better models of how the brain processes information and stores it. We also are learning more about the diversity of cell functions and diversity of gut biome. Also we are getting better all the time with sensors, motors, actuators that resemble muscles, subtle hydraulic action, piezo electric sensors and contracting materials.

So what do we want? A way to program our brain? A way to hypercharge our hormones digestion and endocrine system? robot limbs? Consider that robot limbs would ideally be parallel, not one lopsided robot limb and the other side weak and scrawny, we function best with symmetry and balance. Do we want hybrid computer networks to boost our brains? Why not just get a really good custom phone app exocortex in the meantime?

>>9001483
2023, September the 22nd

>>9002083
>AI researcher
>a woman

I know a guy who has a blood sugar RFID antennia thingy in his arm.

>>9002927
February 3rd, 2024 7:21 AM

>>9002929
How incredibly observant you are.