Matthew MacDougall
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And so what we see is our electrode longevity and functionality and the health of the brain tissue immediately surrounding the electrode is excellent. I mean, it goes on for years now in our animal models.
I think the most interesting, maybe underappreciated fact is that it really does control almost everything. I don't know. For an out-of-the-blue example, imagine you want a lever on fertility. You want to be able to turn fertility on and off. I mean, there are legitimate targets in the brain itself to modulate fertility, say blood pressure. You want to modulate blood pressure.
I think the most interesting, maybe underappreciated fact is that it really does control almost everything. I don't know. For an out-of-the-blue example, imagine you want a lever on fertility. You want to be able to turn fertility on and off. I mean, there are legitimate targets in the brain itself to modulate fertility, say blood pressure. You want to modulate blood pressure.
I think the most interesting, maybe underappreciated fact is that it really does control almost everything. I don't know. For an out-of-the-blue example, imagine you want a lever on fertility. You want to be able to turn fertility on and off. I mean, there are legitimate targets in the brain itself to modulate fertility, say blood pressure. You want to modulate blood pressure.
There are legitimate targets in the brain for doing that. Things that aren't immediately obvious as brain problems are potentially solvable in the brain. And so I think it's an underexplored area for primary treatments of all the things that bother people.
There are legitimate targets in the brain for doing that. Things that aren't immediately obvious as brain problems are potentially solvable in the brain. And so I think it's an underexplored area for primary treatments of all the things that bother people.
There are legitimate targets in the brain for doing that. Things that aren't immediately obvious as brain problems are potentially solvable in the brain. And so I think it's an underexplored area for primary treatments of all the things that bother people.
Yeah, not always. Kidney disease is real, but there are levers you can pull in the brain that affect all of these systems.
Yeah, not always. Kidney disease is real, but there are levers you can pull in the brain that affect all of these systems.
Yeah, not always. Kidney disease is real, but there are levers you can pull in the brain that affect all of these systems.
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I think the use case right now is use a mouse, right? I can already do that, and so there's no value proposition. On safety grounds alone, sure, I'll do it tomorrow.
I think the use case right now is use a mouse, right? I can already do that, and so there's no value proposition. On safety grounds alone, sure, I'll do it tomorrow.
I think the use case right now is use a mouse, right? I can already do that, and so there's no value proposition. On safety grounds alone, sure, I'll do it tomorrow.
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Yeah. I think recording speech intentions from the brain might change things as well. The value proposition for the average person. A keyboard is a pretty clunky human interface, requires a lot of training. It's highly variable in the maximum performance that the average person can achieve. I think taking that out of the equation and just having a natural