I know someone that died within four years of diagnosis of ALS. The thing was his communication ability was never completely compromised. The period where something like https://synchron.com/ could have helped him was less than three months. To run the wheelchair, I think semi-automation would be better. Something with radar in all direction that does something reasonable with a crude (in terms of bits) brain signal. For example, a fixed function "I want to go to the refrigerator" signal where the robotics takes over, instead of smashing into it with the wheelchair indicated by a poorly modulated hand gesture. By the time things got bad, the quality-of-life issues were more about maintaining steady respiration, and the need for assistance didn't need to be communicated verbally. It was obvious. He said he spent most of the day thinking about his breathing. Imagine if every day was like doing intervals..
-----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Santafe Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 8:47 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] intgegration Here’s maybe a fun one. Parkinsons progresses slowly, also ALS. I remember being in rooms with Hawking, who sounded like the Wizard of Wor of the same era. I can imagine, if you get a new generation voice-producer, not wanting your identity to be taken over by one of the stock readers. But you could just start making inclusive recordings of your own speech, in all different settings, for years in the early phases of the disease, and then have a customized voice-generator trained to perpetuate you after the disease impairs you. One could almost imagine something akin to autotune, which would take your impaired speech in real-time, and convert it to a broadcast speech stream in the unimpaired style. Probably 15 companies are already doing this, since it’s kind of obvious. That was triggered by the article’s comments on using intracranial generation for people with full speech impairment. Eric > On Mar 26, 2025, at 11:28, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > This comes to mind.. > > https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/08/15/releases-20230811/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 3:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] intgegration > > This is the driver for my doubt. Last I paid attention, the inter-individual > variation for activation circuits swamped the intra-individual variation. So > within one person, we might be able to make reliable predictions. But this > idea that "regions of the brain" are activated in the same way, for the same > tasks, across all (or most) people is suspect. 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