Elon Musk's Neuralink firm is a neurotechnology firm that develops implantable brain-machine interfaces. The company's short-term goal is to make devices that treat serious brain diseases and eventually focus on human enhancement or what is called transhumanism.
They have already demonstrated the use of Neuralink devices on various animals, like a rat, pig, and monkey to show the public how it works.
Although today its primary focus is on humans, Neuralink's co-founder Mark Hodak said that Elon Musk's firm has the technology to build a real-life version of Jurassic Park just like in movies. Could this really be possible?
Neuralink Can Build Jurassic Park
The Sun reported that last Sunday, April 4, Mark Hodak posted on Twitter an outlandish claim that if they wanted to, Neuralink has the technology to make Jurassic Park a reality.
"We could probably build Jurassic Park if we wanted to. wouldn't be genetically authentic dinosaurs but ... maybe 15 years of breeding + engineering to get super exotic novel species," he wrote.
"Biodiversity (antifragility) is definitely valuable; conservation is important and makes sense," he added later in the day. "But why do we stop there? Why don't we more intentionally try to generate novel diversity?"
However, Hodak did not add any specific details about how Neuralink could be able to revive prehistoric creatures that went extinct over 65 million years ago.
Several commentators on his pointed out that there are already books and movies on why reviving extinct dinosaurs is not a good idea.
Similarly, conservationists have expressed concerns about de-extinction, the term for resurrecting extinct species, because the ecosystems that those species once lived in have moved on without them.
That means resurrecting species and creating a novel form of biodiversity would also mean introducing a new invasive species to an ecosystem that can no longer support them, Futurism reported.
So, it might be a cool idea but it could end up just like the movies wherein genetically resurrected species have lost control.
Neuralink Brain Chip In Animals and Humans
In 2020, Elon Musk demonstrated the technology by his Neuralink firm that builds a digital link between computers and brains. A surgically implanted Neuralink computing device showed a pig's brain activity as it snuffed the pen on stage.
According to CNet, the demonstration showed the improvements of Neuralink's technology and how far it had gone since its 2019 product debut that only showed photos of a rat with the Neuralink connected via a USB-C port.
Also, Science Times previously reported that Elon Musk has confirmed that Neuralink has wired up a monkey so that it could play computer games. Musk said that they are one step closer to developing wireless chips that would allow monkeys to manipulate a device using their technology.
Additionally, Musk has shown a second-generation implant that could fit into a small cavity of the skull wherein the tiny electrode threads could detect an electric impulse from the brain to show how it works. The electrode threads are designed to communicate back using a computer that generates signals of their own.
"It's like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," Musk said of the device.
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