Such a fascinating topic! There seems to be many non-medical uses for neural implants that I never thought of. I see advances in extra-neurological devices too. I recall hearing of Mind Balance a few years ago, where a player can control a charecter using his mind. Do you have any updates on that? Thanks!

The technology has a great many beneficial uses for humanity.

The problem lies within the intentions behind using the technology; and, one example of this is during WW2 when one group of people studying the effects of freeezing water on the human body distainfully used people in their studies: The knowledge and the resulting technologies are now being put to excellent use, but the hateful intent behind the WW2 studies add a stigma that often overshines the benefits.

It is the same for all of humanity’s advancements. The intent behind the actions always blares out so that many won’t see the silver lining, so to speak, with the outcomes. The neural implants are another example, albeit, the stigma has come out the sci-fi world where bad guys are remembered for their technological evilness.

It is a fact, many people find it difficult to separate the goodness of a new tool when there is a bad intention attached to it. Maybe, it’s our long standing tradition that anything new is used as a tool of war, from the chariot to the atom bomb… no matter why we do it, we always choose the intention behind the creation and use of our tools, giving the tool its reputation and therefore its main, and sometimes only, purpose.

I think people should try to cure diseases but if this is the way they were born why change it ? i prefer being human all the time…

you would not cese to be human if you had an implant. people have artifical hearts. would you prefer to die instead of getting one? the artificial neural bridge would not control messages sent but just facillitate them being sent

but since you are not handicapped it is easy to act like you would not do something…… arent we brave?

When a person’s brain is implanted with a mind-reader without their knowledge or consent, what can she do? It may be for experimental purpose or to cover-up for some atrocities committed, just in case the target finds out and blows the whistle that will cause infamy in the country.

USC doctor Gerald Loeb and Jonathan Kellerman are guilty of implanting un-consenting individuals with a BIONS implant to record feedback to their computers…and they have financial intrest in the semi millimeter conducters that powers the implants.

Also…. UCLA social cognitive psychologists ….Dr. Matthew Lieberman and Dr. Naomi Eisenberger have been involved with a group of doctors from UCLA that implants un-consenting individuals with a probe that sends real-time feedback to their computers so the can scan for answers to their fraudulent clinical research projects!
Basically , these doctors are cheats! And they are guilty of performing horrible Nazi-type experimentation on un-consenting adults! They need to be stopped!

Dr. Matthew Lieberman and Dr. Naomi Eisenberger are involved in that big “SCAN SCANDAL”!
They are accused of research misconduct at UCLA! What will happen to them now?
What disciplinary action will they get, for implanting fMRI probes in unconsenting adults, in order for them to retrieve real-time data during their social neuroscience clinical research projects?

An fMRI machine is the size of a small automobile, masses several tons, must be cooled to cryogenic temperatures (i.e., several hundred degrees below zero), and consumes tens of kilowatts of power. Anyone who thanks that “fMRI probes” can be “implanted” into a human brain without that person’s knowledge has NO idea what they are talking about, and is wearing their tinfoil hat WAY too tight…