Re: Elon Musk NeuraLink Update: August 28th
Camlorn, biological cures would get to universal easily I would say. Gene therapy with CRISPR is a concept that can be applied to all genetic disorders pretty much, and if it becomes possible to cause neurons and structures in the eye etc to regrow themselves, then it is basicly a done deal. So one really huge disadvantage of implants, is that people can hack them, and do stuff to affect your perception of reality. Like, for example, people could make you hear sounds that wern't there, or see things that wern't there, and cause you to literally do anything, or affect your thoughts, or even body functions, such as those functions that the ottonomic nervous system does, and kill someone that way. Another negative aspect is simply that if anything happens to the implant, you are basicly stuck blind, or deaf or whatever you had before, whereas biological senses do not have this issue. Also, the fact that you would have to plug yourself into a wall would be incredibly annoying too.
For these and many other reasons, if a biological cure vs implant situation existed, I would absolutely take the biological one.
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