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Dr. Matthew MacDougall: Neuralink & Technologies to Enhance Human Brains

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The Confidence Test

Neuralink is using smarter algorithms to decode the motor intentions out of the brain. We have been able to do this in monkeys really well, so we have a small army of monkeys playing video games for smoothie rewards and they do really well. So here's the confidence test. Would you be willing, or are you willing, if allowed, to have these electrodes implanted into your motor cortex? You're not a quadriplegic. But given the state of the technology at NeuralLink now, would you do that? Or maybe in the next couple of years, if you were allowed, would you be willing to do that?

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