Dr. Eddie Chang

Like, for example, you don't have to have a neural interface embedded in your brain to get information, essentially access to all information in the world.

You just have to have, you know, your iPhone.

Whether you could do it faster through a brain interface, I definitely wouldn't rule that out.

But think about this, that the systems that we have already to speak and to communicate have evolved over thousands and millions of years, and they're supported by neural structures that have bandwidth of millions of neurons.

There's no technology that exists right now that people are thinking about that are in commercial form, certainly, not even in research labs that come anywhere close to what has been evolved for those natural purposes.

So I'm essentially saying two sides of this, which is we're already getting into this now.

This is not new territory.

This topic of augmentation, both physical and cognitive, we've already surpassed that.

That's part of what humans do in general.

But we are entering this area of like enhanced cognition, these areas that I think the technology is going to be the rate limiting step and how far you can go.

And we have not had the full conversations about, number one, is this what we actually want?

Is this going to be good for society?

Who gets access to this technology?

These are all things that are going to become real world problems.

Sure.

Yeah.

I'm here with you in person.

We could have done this virtually, probably.

It's pretty easy to do that.

We could have recorded this