Mind-Machine Interfaces

This weeks episode is a spooky sci-fi romp about how we're hooking up brains to computers and minds to machines back to minds again! Except it is all real science! Tune in to hear Nathan and Andrei tell Sean he's crazy, learn what Elon Musk is doing with his latest company, and whether this technology is going to destroy humanity before CRISPR does.

 

For some visual references, I highly recommend this article by "Wait But Why": https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

Quantum shit is not really Sean's expertise, but this article specifically was what we was referring to when he suggested photosynthesis may involve quantum stuff: https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/pdf/S1360-1385(18)30049-9.pdf

 

References:

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/361/361ra141.full

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10489

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703801v4.full

https://www.wired.com/story/brain-machine-interface-isnt-sci-fi-anymore/

https://www.cell.com/neuron/pdfExtended/S0896-6273(17)30703-1

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10489

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41895-7

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-10957-z

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-maestro-of-memory-manipulation-20160623/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5681944/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4907333/

http://nerve.bsd.uchicago.edu/FB/NatureReviews.pdf