Neuralink Is a Nightmare Dreamscape of a Medical Miracle
Elon Musk’s AI layer for humans opens our brains and a Pandora’s box of ethical implications
Poor Gertrude, the unwilling brain surgery recipient did not want to come out of her pen. Neuralink founder and real-life Tony Stark giggled nervously as the handlers tried to coax the small brown pig from its corner.
Musk surmised that Gertrude found something of keen interest in that spot. I think the pig was still smarting from the indignity of a brain implant it never asked for, one that somehow seems to know when it finds something of interest, but could not tell Musk why Gertrude didn’t want to come out.
Gertrude is just a pig, and even though pigs are known to have surprisingly human-like physiologies and particularly keen brains (at least for farm animals), this porcine may have had nary a thought or emotion regarding the quarter-sized Neuralink device (it’s almost as thick as four quarters) implanted below its skull and just on the surface of it soft, wet brain, with numerous ultra-thin threads reaching from the disc deeper into various regions of its cerebrum.
For those of us a few major steps up on the evolutionary ladder, though, the news that SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, Boring company, and Neuralink Founder…
