Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

It's a, it's a way of communicating faster than any other BCI methods previously tried. matched

So, and that's the key. matched

And you're right. matched

You're like, this would be, this would be a life changer for somebody who's locked in who could now communicate the matched

At, you know, 90 characters a minute or 15 words a minute. matched

That's huge. matched

So the control isn't better. matched

It's just the communications faster because of the method they chose. matched

Yeah, so a previous method was using your brain to control the cursor on a computer screen and then moving the cursor to different letters. matched

That's another method entirely, and that works, but it's a lot slower than this. matched

So this was just a good way to approach this problem, and it did result in faster communication from thought, you know? matched

Yeah. matched

Again, I think the limiting factor is largely the technology. matched

It's the electrodes. matched

We need to get to the point where we have safer, less invasive, or just more detailed electrodes. matched

I think one of the things that we talked about not too long ago was the micro wires, like the connections made through like hundreds of teeny tiny, very thin wires that actually go into the brain. matched

And they have to be flexible. matched

And so that technology is developing. matched

And, you know, if we could get like really high resolution, good, stable brain connections, the software can handle it, right? matched

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