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What Neuralink will be – if it succeeds –

is a whole-brain BCI that's capable of transmitting signals to

and receiving signals from any part of the brain.

It would be an integrated ‘digital tertiary layer’.

We would become cyborgs.

Musk said: “We already have a digital tertiary layer in a sense,

in that you have your computer or your phone or your applications.

You can ask a question via Google and get an answer instantly.

You can access any book or any music.

With a spreadsheet, you can do incredible calculations.

“The thing that people, I think,

don’t appreciate right now is that they are already a cyborg.

You’re already a different creature than you would have been 20 years ago,

or even 10 years ago.

You can see this when they do surveys of like,

'how long do you want to be away from your phone?'

and – particularly if you’re a teenager or in your 20s – even a day hurts.

If you leave your phone behind, it’s like missing limb syndrome.

I think people – they’re already kind of merged with their phone

and their laptop and their applications and everything.“

So Neuralink would end up taking all the external devices that make us a cyborg,

and put them straight into our brain.

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