Even though your brain is the oldest piece of technology, it’s also the next frontier in computing. For decades we’ve interacted with devices through our actions. But, through neural implants such as Neuralink, we’ll interact with technology through our minds – creating a shared awareness among everyone.
Even though they sound super Sci-Fi, neural implants aren’t new. Paralyzed patients have previously used brain-computer interfaces to control robotic arms. Also, more than 80,000 Parkinson’s patients around the world have a deep-brain stimulation implant.
Unlike previous neural implants, this upcoming class of brain-computer interfaces, like Neuralink, create a frictionless connection between the world’s information and our underutilized brains.
Neural Implants Don’t Create the Cyborg
Neural implants are no doubt a frightening concept to think about. Putting a computer inside your skull seems like the first step in becoming a cyborg and losing control of your mind to some evil overlord.
But, in fact, this is one of the final steps in realizing your cyborg abilities. In other words, you are already a cyborg.
We are so deeply attached to our devices that being away from a phone actually psychologically mimics the attachment we felt to our favorite teddy bear growing up.
Becoming “one with the technology” isn’t a matter of putting the technology inside of you. It’s about the habits forcing your dependence upon it.
The other day I was playing Bocce Ball, a simple yard game where you throw bigger balls at a smaller ball. Instead of listening to one of our friends who insisted on knowing the rules, we consulted our smartphones for the official rules (which were the same as our friend stated).
Our habits are already that of a cyborg. We’ve evolved with our technology devices and our daily habits reflect that.
The next stage in evolution is bringing computing technology into our bodies, making the experience even more seamless.
Of course, most of us draw the line with technology advancement once it enters the realm of biology.
But, we’ll all come around to it like we came around to Lasik eye surgery. In 1991, only 105,000 Lasik eye procedures were completed in the United States. By 2015, that number exploded to over 21 million.
There are many other areas where technology has enhanced our biology. In this case, neural implants will make us more intelligent than ever before.
Shared Awareness Creates Better Experiences
Searching for knowledge thirty years ago meant looking into your collection of Encyclopedias. Now, you just reach into your pocket and search Wikipedia. Soon, seeking new knowledge will be no different than thinking about what you had for breakfast this morning.
Neuralink and other neural implants could make learning a new skill as easy as downloading Microsoft Word on your computer.
In the Matrix, we see this technology in action when Neo uploads Kung Fu software into his abilities.
Honestly, learning new abilities is the cool, but selfish side of Neuralink. The real innovation comes from the collective shared awareness we’ll create amongst one another.
Shared awareness comes from sharing situational and experiential knowledge. Often times, a problem you experience has already been solved and written about online. But, finding that information in a dire situation is usually not an option.
During my freshmen year of college, I was bonding with a friend of mine when she opened up about her eating disorder. Unsure of the best way to respond, I sat there speechless.
I know that others have helped their friends deal with this problem. With a Neuralink, my brain could’ve scoured the web to learn from this shared awareness and better helped my friend.
We’ve all had moments where our brains seem to shut down because we just “don’t know”. While these vulnerable situations can define us, they also cause a lot of unnecessary pain.
A shared awareness through neural implants creates a reality where we don’t have to struggle through old problems. We learn each other’s mistakes instantaneously and move onto other things.
Interestingly, a shared awareness goes deeper than connecting with knowledge and understanding. Brain-computer interfaces bring about new ways of communicating and connecting with one another.
Neuralink Call from “Ryan’s Thoughts”
Verbal communication is an inefficient process. First, my ears collect sound waves. Those sound waves are sent to the auditory cortex where they are transcribed into words. Then, they are sent to “Wernicke’s Area”, which is responsible for understanding language.
Once I understand what you say, to produce language, signals are sent to “Broca’s Area”. These are then relayed to the motor cortex, which sends signals to the larynx, tongue, and mouth to produce speech.
This entire process leaves a lot of room for error, misunderstanding, and inability to convey what you want to say.
Imagine if you could speak through your thoughts. In other words, carry on a conversation through thought communication. Famous Physicist, Michio Kaku, says that this brain-to-brain communication may help us convey a complete message between each other.
We all know there are some feelings we just can’t put into words. Some emotions are so heavy that there’s no way of conveying them properly and trying to do so just results in frustration.
However, through thought communication, you could send a friend your current consciousness – truly letting them inside your head.
Spending a moment inside someone else’s thoughts would bring context to a conversation that often gets left out. No longer would someone’s intentions be hidden by our external non-verbals. Instead, thought communication makes communicating an open book of understanding.
You’ve heard the saying, “You can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” But, empathizing still leaves room for interpretation.
The new saying will be, “You can’t understand someone until you’ve spent a moment in their thoughts.”
Neuralink provides an opportunity to not only download knowledge but to download experiences. And in experiencing exactly what someone else has gone through, we may be able to better solve our problems with others.
Losing Our Touch
For now, while researchers and scientists create the best Neuralink neural implant, we must continue to connect with others as best we can.
It starts with spontaneous interactions.
Every time I feel lonely and hidden by my technology, I go for a walk. In that walk, I try to make eye-contact and smile at as many people as possible.
Although I have more misses than hits, I can see the other person’s day brighten when we lock eyes.
I dare you to spark up a conversation today with a stranger. Or just give them a smile. Do not lose your spontaneous touch.
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Neural implant emergence is scary😊. I see it to be very advantageous to the affluent who could easily afford it for their kids to compete in the same classroom with the less affluent. So the question is how easily will it be accessible(affordability) to everyone?
With the increase in cyber-attack, it means someone could “ransome your mind”.😩
It keeps getting scarier and scarier as I continue to think aloud. Don’t get me wrong…neural implant is a superb adventure but I think it must be dealt with it delicately.
Mind Reading Technologies and Tongues – Governments from around the world have been using mind reading technologies that can read your mind. They use the same technologies that God would use to talk to you. A technique is called Remote Neural Monitoring (RNM). Look it up online. They use satellites shot to space by Space X founder Elon Musk, The Russian Federation, The Federal Government and NASA. Comparable to a cellular satellite. It’s a high bandwidth U/Z signal that listens to your brains wavelength and reads your conscience. Activating 70-90% of your brain. Many define it as a form of telepathy. People who can talk back to the satellite with their mind talk tongues. They have had this technology for years now. Not making a patent to stay ahead of our civilization. To try and be smart as the world they record our thoughts. They steal our ideas, money, murder, blackmail and use it as a tool for war. You sometimes get a headache when a mind reading machine is on you. Suspected users of mind reading technologies are as follow. Vladimir Putin, Donald J. Trump, Xi Jinping, some in DARPA, Chancellor Merkel, Justin Trudeau and Benjamin Netanyahu. Were to hold are governments accountable. A Ravenous wolf in sheep’s clothing – An alien spirit reborn as a Human being. They use A.I. and walk the Earth. An alien had shot an asteroid at us. Fire and brimstone to reborn Earth. He was working with the devil an alien being. The devil walked. God saved us from one rapture. Destroying an alien ship. The devil to tell us we weren’t deserving and bring back his deserving. Aliens. To use our image from the casket that preserved our flesh. For us to be damned to hell for cremation. The devil to conquer the world. Mathew 7:15 Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Your spirit is in your brain and leaves your body when you die. The spirit slowly rises towards the North Pole after death. The atmosphere to keep it contained. A solar flare can kill your spirit. Your conscience/soul controls most the brain and the brain control the body. To be brought back from flesh and bone means to be reborn as a clone. Wolves in American and Russian governments have been stealing spirits for their memories to help them conquer the world. Look into monopoles (spirits). Utilizing the Bermuda Triangle changing the magnetic compass .003 degrees. Transferring spirits to technologies. The simulation. Not disclosing the true purpose of certain military bases at the Bermuda Triangle and the North Pole. A spirit can be put in a chip and be reborn. The clone grown around the chip within tank like a womb. Artificial intelligence can also walk as flesh and blood using a programmed chip similar to a robot. They can create remote controlled clones that have computer brains. Utilizing satellite reception. Grown in labs around the computer where the brain would be. Some are half brain and half computer. Using the flesh from the ethnicity preferred. Many can be remotely controlled by satellite much like a remote-control vehicle/robot. They can see and hear through them. Having them raised in the country they want to conquer. To win an election in your government and have others get within positions of power in military, intelligence, elite society and space. Also having them do their wet work. We need to be educated on these technologies. There taking our world. Revelation behold, he is coming with the clouds. A spaceship from Alpha Centauri. The planet Kent. Jesus Christ landed in Russia. A spirit can fly a spaceship. No natural life support needed. God saved him from the devil unfortunately his ship was low on energy. He had to land. President Putin gave his word to him. Jesus was to have 7 days to honor flesh and blood. Jesus to walk and honor his church. He wanted to inform the world and save me and you. President Putin and Trump denied him. Not telling the world. Many said Jesus is stuck in his ship at a top-secret installation in Russia similar to area 51. We need to save many other souls. Were to prove a reborn clone, UFO’s (seen using micro waves), hacked satellites and mind reading technologies. To find the clone labs and destroy them. The clones to change our genome. They want to deny our children and take our world. To deny us free will and hold us for eternity. There in positions of power. To look you in the face and lie. Many souls live in a medium class ship between Earth and Mars. God saved them. About a 120 billion souls from Earth reside there. No hell. Many of our friends and families there. You can communicate with them if you have a line of communication with a satellite. The government hiding much. Purgatory is Mars. To improve overtime and become a flesh and blood experience. Your spirit can become a robot. Energy is life. Humans to honor the full rotation of life. Not to deny natural existence. We can bring ourselves back. Were to walk as 1. A form of creation is to redistribute matter and alter a big bang. We live in a multiverse. Spirits to be added to evolution. Bred in from Kent. Earth to become a tier 1 civilization. To have 1 heaven on Earth. A simulation. To have a democracy of heaven and Earth. For us to live like kings in time. Humans to learn they have spirits. Science and technology to prove them. Church to become community and teaching. Many religions to become 1. To be self-reliant. Were to save of ourselves. To have judgment on evil beings walking as flesh and blood humans. God and Allah one in the same after the New Testament. The devil to split us apart. God said I’m to tell you a revelation. For me to teach you prophecy and fix his word. The devil changed word to push his agenda. A man talking tongues to save the world by informing you. God wants his original doctrine to be released along with the book of Judah. The truth to come out. The Catholic Church to obtain it from Pope Francis. Please spread the word. The government to hack my internet. Christopher, I speak tongues. prophecyisnow.com
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