SIO440: Elon Musk's Neuralink - Real or Just Hype?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We've got an expert to take us through it! Dr. Jenessa Seymour is a former neuroscientist currently working in disability rights and she has looked through the history of neural implant efforts to investigate Elon's Neuralink claims. Just how full of it is he? And how in the world does any of this even work? What is clear is that the brain is insanely amazing.
There's so much to talk about that this ended up being a two-parter!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 440. I'm your host |
| 0:20.4 | Thomas Smith. Got a cool two-parter here for you. |
| 0:23.4 | You may have seen in the headlines a 29-year-old who became |
| 0:26.9 | quadriplegic after a diving accident |
| 0:30.0 | is able to control a computer cursor just using his mind. |
| 0:34.6 | Well, I guess just using his mind and Neurolink. |
| 0:37.1 | That would be the key ingredient. |
| 0:38.1 | It's not just using his mind. |
| 0:39.1 | That would be magic. |
| 0:40.5 | No, it's not magic, but it is pretty cool. I even saw he's been playing civilization four, which is so cool. If this ever happened to me, that's what I would want to be. He plays chess a little bit. Super cool technology, amazing stuff. |
| 0:53.2 | However, Neurlink is an Elon Musk company. |
| 0:55.9 | And if you have been paying attention to anything Elon Musk in the past ever, |
| 1:01.0 | you know that it can't just be normal. |
| 1:03.2 | Like it can't just be like, oh cool, a good company doing a good job, |
| 1:07.6 | making incremental progress by working hard. |
| 1:10.1 | Like there's always gotta be something, like it's with this guy it's never just like a normal thing so what's going on is this |
| 1:16.4 | revolutionary technology how does it work well I guess former neuroscientist Dr. Janessa |
| 1:21.8 | Seymour she's a perfect guest expert for this because |
| 1:25.6 | well she'll talk about her credentials but they're exactly right for this kind of thing and this was |
| 1:29.6 | originally just going to be one-parter but it was so fascinating and there's so much to it it |
| 1:33.6 | went long and I'll tell you why. Janessa takes us through this technology how it |
| 1:37.4 | works how it doesn't work how our brains change or adjust when we face |
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