Brain-Machine Interfaces

Brain-computer links could enable communication and more profoundly allow humans to think in more dimensions. The article hopes brain-technology links could expand civilization’s capabilities by improving humanity’s understanding of the universe. Thinking in 10 dimensions through brain-computer links is presented as speculative but potentially transformative for understanding the universe. Current commercial and research brain-interface technologies do not approach the biological bandwidth of natural speech and communication systems. The article contrasts tools that enhance humans with systems that may replace or outrun human judgment. The article suggests human cognition may be limited in modeling complex systems compared with computers’ ability to process many data dimensions. Non-invasive brain-machine interfaces are more likely to be widely adopted than implanted chips because most people avoid skull breach. A neural interface connects biological nervous tissue to a machine and can record or stimulate neural signals. Claims of rapid superhuman learning through brain chips are ahead of current science. Augmentation is more likely to emerge gradually and subtly than as obvious s…