Open the key to the metaverse, monkeys can play games too?

Musk's monkey is playing games happily, what he doesn't know is that maybe it represents the beginning of a new era, because humans finally have to do their own brains, December 6, because Musk said in an interview Said that in 2022, the brain-computer interface made by his company NeuraLink will begin to be implanted in the human body. What is Musk's brain-computer interface? NeuraLink released a short video to demonstrate the working process of the brain-computer interface. This is a monkey named Peter, who is playing games with a joystick while drinking a banana milkshake. NeuraLink's brain is implanted in its brain. Computer interface chip, this chip can be easily paired with a mobile phone, just like we pair a Bluetooth headset. After pairing, the monkey's brain waves can be recorded. What is the purpose of recording? First of all, the brain-computer interface must be calibrated, and then the monkey's behavior can be learned and predicted. This prediction is a function that cannot be ignored. The brain-computer interface is not just a passive device. He will be obedient to whatever you want. Whatever you do, it can also predict the action you are about to make, which is amazing. Maybe in the future, it will power you up when you want to do something bad. After the brain-computer interface is calibrated, the game can be completely played by the brain-computer interface. After controlling, the connection line of the gamepad has been disconnected. At this time, the monkey must still think that the game is under his control, but it has been completely taken over by the brain-computer interface.

Next, you don't even need a handle. The monkey only needs to drink a banana milkshake. The ping pong game is completely controlled by his brain. This is Musk's brain muscle interface, which is as simple as putting an elephant in the refrigerator. , only three steps are needed, implantation, calibration, and brain control. In fact, the brain-computer interface is not the first creation of Musk. It has become a reality as early as 15 years ago, in 2006. At that time, he was not a monkey but a buddy named Matthew. He demonstrated the use of brain The computer interface is used to play ping pong games. This is like the electric car is not Musk's first creation, but Tesla has contributed to the popularization of electric cars. The brain-computer interface is also likely to be popularized by Musk. NeuraLink's chip not only It can be connected to a mobile phone, and artificial intelligence technology can also play a very critical role in it, such as predicting your next move or helping people who can't speak to put their thoughts into words. Last year, Musk's demonstration on pigs showed NeuraLink's accurate prediction of the pig's behavioral trajectory. The light-colored line in the video is the predicted behavioral trajectory, which almost exactly matches the actual trajectory of the dark color, and the most important thing is It is Musk who is the one who productizes, scales and pushes to the consumer market. In fact, he does this in every field of his own. Since it is intended for consumers, it must be easy to install and use.

NeuraLink's chip is the size of a coin, has 1,024 nerve-equivalent electrical stages, is implanted precisely into the brain using a robot called a sewing machine, and supports wireless charging, if you make a pillow into a wireless charger , After a good night's sleep, not only is the spirit full, but the electricity is also full. First, Musk said that the brain-computer interface in 2022 will be mainly used for paralyzed patients, allowing those who cannot walk or have no way to use their arms to regain the ability to move again. Second, Musk believes that it will also allow humans to expand their capabilities. When it comes to expanding the ability to imagine, the space for imagination is huge. According to Master's timetable, within ten years, people will be able to achieve telepathy and conscious communication through brain-computers, and communicate directly with brain signals without speaking. Everyone is a three-body person. Maybe human language will be eliminated, but it is more likely that the mobile phone industry will be completely cool. The mobile phone is essentially a wireless communication terminal. It can have unlimited terminals and is portable, so what is the need for mobile phones at that time? He might end up being the TV he is now.

NeuraLink is very likely to become the new iPhone, but there is a big drawback to the communication of consciousness, which all three people have deeply realized, that is, there is no way to lie, Musk will reach its ultimate goal in 25 years, and It is the whole-brain interface, where all the nerves in the brain can communicate with the outside world. Therefore, there is still a cool industry in this development, that is, headphones and speakers. The chip can directly convert music into auditory signals, which should be the real high-fidelity music that can be heard. Next, cinemas and TV sets, because the video can also be directly converted into visual signals, directly sent to the visual to receive, and then the food, because the sense of taste is also an electrical signal. Next, all human senses can be discarded, then we really become a brain in a vat.

The brain in a vat is a thought delay proposed by the philosopher Hilary Putnam in the book "Reason, Truth and History", assuming that a brain is placed in a vat filled with nutrient solution to maintain his physiological activity . And a supercomputer transmits the same various neuroelectric signals to the brain through nerve endings, and gives the same signal feedback as usual to the signals sent by the brain, then the world experienced by the brain is actually a computer-made simulation. Reality, can this brain realize that it is living in virtual reality? Because the brain in the tank receives the same signals as the brain in the skull, and that's the only way the brain communicates with the environment.

From the perspective of the brain, he should have no way to know whether he is in the head or in a tank, so everything in this world may be illusory, then someone asked Musk whether it is possible to use consciousness in the future. Called by Tesla? Musk said no problem, can it store memory? Musk said that you have watched too many sci-fi movies. That being said, copy-pasting memories is not impossible. Scientists have discovered years ago that specific memories are related to specific patterns of electrical signals. They implanted electrodes in the brains of mice and then trained the mice to remember from two Among the identical switches, which one was pressed to get the water, and they recorded the brain signals of the mice, and then they used drugs to destroy the mice's memory, and the mice could not remember which switch was needed to get water, and then they recorded the previously recorded signals. After replaying, the mice recovered their memory at this time, which means that the memory has the possibility of being transplanted.

In 2012, a female reporter from New Scientist magazine experienced the terrifying effect of brain electrical stimulation on brain ability. During his shooting training, if he did not wear any equipment, his accuracy rate was only 6%. And when she put on these brain stimulation devices, she immediately entered a state called stellar flow, and her brain immediately became very focused and her response became more acute. This time, her accuracy rate can reach 100%. It can be seen that it is not a fantasy to expand human capabilities through the brain-muscle interface. It is just that these technologies have not been popularized yet. When the brain information is really reached On the day when we can easily upload and download, what else do we go to school? Whichever major you like, you can directly download all the professional courses to your brain.

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