Brain-sensing threads slip from gray matter in first human Neuralink trial The first human to get a Neuralink implant may be doing fine now, but that's after a good deal of work to address post-surgical trouble that saw its performance significantly degrade. Neuralink admitted the trouble with its first human patient, Noland Arbaugh, in a blog post this week. While mostly detailing the progress …
According to the NIH, Pneumocephalus "is a medical emergency, although management can be challenging" and "the symptoms can range from mild headaches to more severe neurological deficits". So well done the Neuralink robot surgeon. I wonder if Arbaugh was absolutely clear what he was letting himself in for.
And Musk is worrying about reduced bit rate?
Musk will approach this in his usual manner:
1) Use a 'Bigger' Hammer when fitting the implant !!!
2) Install more 'threads' and hope the redundancy is in the 'right' place !!!
3) Use 'Super Glue' .... the implant will be more 'permanent' than originally planned !!!
or none of the above, as there are plenty of 'cheap' volunteers available ... Next !!!
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Musk will approach this in his usual manner:
1) Use a 'Bigger' Hammer when fitting the implant !!!
2) Install more 'threads' and hope the redundancy is in the 'right' place !!!
3) Use 'Super Glue' .... the implant will be more 'permanent' than originally planned !!!
4) The subject wasn't hardcore enough and instructed to terminate any staff subject who didn't pass muster.
Leaving the nutjob proprietor aside I have to admit this is impressive:
The Neuralink N1 implant has 64 threads, each thinner than a human hair, through which is distributed a total of 1024 electrodes.
The thickness [diameter] of human [scalp] hair is a bit like the airspeed of the swallow. Roughly 70μm ± 20μm depending a multitude of a factors such as those from european heritage are typically have an oval cross section and from asian, circular, but thicker. Running a 64×16 separately addressable signals down (up?) such thin conduits in a rather hostile environment is impressive bioengineering.
separately addressable signals down (up?) such thin conduits in a rather hostile environment is impressive
Impressive engineering, for sure, but in many ways it's just a refinement of technologies which have been around for decades such as cochlear implants.
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If we lose this one, we have the perfect volunteer pool: the desperate and marginalized...said without a single stutter.
Since the US' regulatory systems has been completely co-opted and most hard investigative publications have gone the way of the Dodo or Buzzfeed...ProPublica, it's all on you: who, where and when did the, no doubt, charitable donations go to FDA staff, committee members, their spouses, etc... in order to get this abomination approved for human experimentation?
In 1804, Seishu Hanaoka performed the first successful surgical treatment of breast cancer under general anesthesia in the world. It preceeded by 38 years C W Long’s trial of ether anesthesia in 1842. Hanaoka had made many efforts to develop the optimal prescriptionof the anesthetic“Tsusensan (or Mafutsu-To)”for almost 20 years. Finally, he succeeded in using it clinically for breast cancer surgery, on October 13,1804. Hanaoka performed operations for breast cancer in a total of 156 cases, and also for many other kinds of surgical procedures.
During his journey of self sponsored home R&D he experimented on his wife, who was accidentally blinded in the process.
《the R1 robot that performs the surgeries simply isn't very good at ensuring all the air is out of a patient's skull before closing it up.》
Douglas Adams would be green with envy for not dreaming up that one.
R1 Surgical Robot Operator's Guide Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Limitations and Warnings
Terry Pratchett would have created another Ankh-Morpork guild just to use it.
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