Charan Ranganath

I think speech... Prosthetics that are incorporating decoding techniques with AI and movement prosthetics. The rate of progress is just enormous. So part of the technology is having good enough data and understanding which data to use and what to do with it, right? Mm-hmm. And then the other part of it then is the algorithms for decoding it and so forth.

And I think part of that has really resulted in some real breakthroughs in neuroscience as a result. So there's lots of new technologies like Neuropixels, for instance, that allow you to harvest activity from many, many neurons from a single electrode. I know Neuralink has some technologies that are also along these lines, but I haven't, again, because they do their own stuff.

And I think part of that has really resulted in some real breakthroughs in neuroscience as a result. So there's lots of new technologies like Neuropixels, for instance, that allow you to harvest activity from many, many neurons from a single electrode. I know Neuralink has some technologies that are also along these lines, but I haven't, again, because they do their own stuff.

And I think part of that has really resulted in some real breakthroughs in neuroscience as a result. So there's lots of new technologies like Neuropixels, for instance, that allow you to harvest activity from many, many neurons from a single electrode. I know Neuralink has some technologies that are also along these lines, but I haven't, again, because they do their own stuff.

The scientific community doesn't see it, right? But I think BCI is much, much bigger than Neuralink, and there's just so much innovation happening. I think the interesting question, which we may be getting into, is I was talking to Sergey a while ago about, you know, so a lot of language is not just what we hear and what we speak. but also our intentions and our internal models.

The scientific community doesn't see it, right? But I think BCI is much, much bigger than Neuralink, and there's just so much innovation happening. I think the interesting question, which we may be getting into, is I was talking to Sergey a while ago about, you know, so a lot of language is not just what we hear and what we speak. but also our intentions and our internal models.

The scientific community doesn't see it, right? But I think BCI is much, much bigger than Neuralink, and there's just so much innovation happening. I think the interesting question, which we may be getting into, is I was talking to Sergey a while ago about, you know, so a lot of language is not just what we hear and what we speak. but also our intentions and our internal models.

And so are you really going to be able to restore language without dealing with that part of it? And he brought up a really interesting question, which is the ethics of reading out people's intentions and understanding of the world as opposed to the more concrete parts of hearing and producing movements, right?

And so are you really going to be able to restore language without dealing with that part of it? And he brought up a really interesting question, which is the ethics of reading out people's intentions and understanding of the world as opposed to the more concrete parts of hearing and producing movements, right?

And so are you really going to be able to restore language without dealing with that part of it? And he brought up a really interesting question, which is the ethics of reading out people's intentions and understanding of the world as opposed to the more concrete parts of hearing and producing movements, right?

Well, I mean, in some sense, we know we can do it just behaviorally, right?

Well, I mean, in some sense, we know we can do it just behaviorally, right?

Well, I mean, in some sense, we know we can do it just behaviorally, right?

I can just tell you, under certain conditions anyway, I can give you the misinformation, and then you can change the people and places and so forth, right? On the crude level, there's a lot of work that's being done on a phenomenon called reconsolidation, which is the idea that essentially when I recall a memory—

I can just tell you, under certain conditions anyway, I can give you the misinformation, and then you can change the people and places and so forth, right? On the crude level, there's a lot of work that's being done on a phenomenon called reconsolidation, which is the idea that essentially when I recall a memory—

I can just tell you, under certain conditions anyway, I can give you the misinformation, and then you can change the people and places and so forth, right? On the crude level, there's a lot of work that's being done on a phenomenon called reconsolidation, which is the idea that essentially when I recall a memory—

what happens is that the connections between the neurons and that cell assembly that give you the memory are going to be more modifiable. And so some people have used techniques to try to, for instance, with fear memories, to reduce that physical visceral component of the memory when it's being activated.

what happens is that the connections between the neurons and that cell assembly that give you the memory are going to be more modifiable. And so some people have used techniques to try to, for instance, with fear memories, to reduce that physical visceral component of the memory when it's being activated.

what happens is that the connections between the neurons and that cell assembly that give you the memory are going to be more modifiable. And so some people have used techniques to try to, for instance, with fear memories, to reduce that physical visceral component of the memory when it's being activated.

Right now, I think I've, as an outsider looking at the data, I think it's like mixed results. And part of it is, and this speaks to the more complex issue, is that you need somebody to actually fully recall that traumatic memory in the first place. And in order to actually modify it, then what is the memory? That is the key part of the problem.