The person with Elon Musk’s chip in his mind – podcast | Elon Musk

Noland Arbaugh was a 22-year-old scholar when an accident modified his life for ever. Swimming with a bunch of pals, he was hit within the head and blacked out. He was pulled from the water, and when he got here spherical, it was clear the damage to his spinal twine meant he had misplaced all motion under his shoulders.

A dedicated Christian, Arbaugh has dealt along with his modified circumstances with persistence and good humour, the journalist Jenny Kleeman tells Helen Pidd. Nevertheless, the chance got here alongside to have an implant fitted into his mind that may permit him to instantly work together with a pc. He jumped on the probability. The operation carried actual danger, however he says the considered having the ability to transfer issues on a display along with his thoughts pushed him on.

And it labored. Quickly Arbaugh was in a position to play video games, textual content, WhatsApp and have a full on-line life simply utilizing his mind. Surprisingly, Elon Musk’s Neuralink firm isn’t the one one finishing up such experiments. And Arbaugh isn’t the one individual to have a brain-computer interface. But Musk’s ambitions are wider. He’s trying to merge man and machine. If he succeeds what may the implications be?

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