Neuralink and the Promises of Technology
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
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The god-like delusion of advancements that offer freedom from the human condition.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.5 | Months after receiving FDA approval for human trials, Elon Musk Nurelling Company, has successfully |
| 0:09.9 | implanted a brain chip in their first human subject. |
| 0:12.3 | According to Musk, this chip, which is known as telepathy, |
| 0:15.4 | quote, enables control of your phone or computer |
| 0:18.0 | and through them almost any device just by thinking. |
| 0:21.4 | A stated goal is to, and I quote again, restore autonomy to those with |
| 0:25.2 | unmet medical needs, like lost limbs, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries or other |
| 0:30.0 | significant mental and physical disability. But another goal is to, and I quote, |
| 0:34.4 | unlock human potential tomorrow |
| 0:36.5 | by redefining the boundaries of human capability. |
| 0:39.6 | Well, that's a move from healing to enhancement. |
| 0:41.8 | It's long plagued our technological dreams and is always |
| 0:44.4 | problematic. Whenever technology is used to eliminate instead of accommodate human weakness, |
| 0:49.7 | our humanity is threatened. Technologies like Neurrellink always promised freedom from finitude. |
| 0:55.1 | But as Gilbert Mylander has reminded us, the only freedom worth having acknowledges limits and |
| 0:59.4 | does not seek to be god-like. I'm John Stone Street. |
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