Nolan Arbaugh
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Which honestly was like... Something that I think Neuralink gave me that I can't thank them enough for, like I can't show my appreciation for it enough, was being able to visually see that what I'm doing is actually having some effect. Yeah.
um it's a huge part of the reason why like i know now that i'm gonna keep doing it forever because before neuralink i was doing it every day and i was just assuming that things were happening
like it's not like i knew i wasn't getting back any mobility or um sensation or anything so i could have been running up against a brick wall for all i knew and with nerlink i get to see like all the signals happening real time and i get to see that you know what i'm doing can actually be mapped
you know, when we started doing like click calibrations and stuff, when I go to click my index finger for a left click, that it actually recognizes that. Like it changed how I think about what's possible with like retraining my body to move. And so yeah, I'll never give up now.
Yeah, it was very cool. I mean, it was cool, but I keep telling this to people. It made sense to me. It made sense that there are signals still happening in my brain. And that as long as you had something near it that could measure those, that could record those, then you should be able to visualize it in some way, see it happen. And so that was not very surprising to me.
I was just like, oh, cool. We found one. We found something that works. It was cool to see that their technology worked and that everything that they'd worked so hard for was going to pay off. But I hadn't moved a cursor or anything at that point. I hadn't interacted with a computer or anything at that point. So it just made sense. It was cool.
I didn't really know much about BCI at that point either. So I didn't know what sort of step this was actually making. I didn't know if this was a huge deal or if this was just like, okay, it's cool that we got this far, but we're actually... hoping for something like much better down the road. It's like, okay, I just thought that they knew that it turned on. So I was like, cool.
Like this is, this is cool.
Yeah. Yeah. I knew all of that, but it's all like, it's all Greek to me. I was like, okay, threads, 64 threads, 16 electrodes, 1024 channels. Yeah. Okay, like that math checks out. Sounds right. Yeah.
I know it must have been within the first maybe week, a week or two weeks that I was able to like first move the cursor. And again, like it kind of made sense to me. Like it didn't seem like that big of a deal. Like it was like, okay, well, how do I explain this? When everyone around you starts clapping for something that you've done, it's easy to say, okay, I did something cool.
That was impressive in some way. What exactly that meant, what it was, hadn't really... set in for me. So again, I knew that me trying to move a body part and then that being mapped in some sort of machine learning algorithm to be able to identify my brain signals and then take that and give me cursor control. That all kind of made sense to me.
I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but I was like, there are still signals in my brain firing. They just can't get through because there's a gap in my spinal cord. And so they can't get all the way down and back up, but they're still there. So when I moved the cursor for the first time, I was like, that's cool, but I expected that that should happen. Like it made sense to me.
When I moved the cursor for the first time with just my mind without like physically trying to move. So I guess I can get into that just a little bit. Like the difference between attempted movement and imagined movement.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like attempted movement is me physically trying... to attempt to move, say, my hand. I try to attempt to move my hand to the right, to the left, forward, and back. And that's all attempted. Attempt to lift my finger up and down. Attempt to kick or something. I'm physically trying to do all of those things, even if you can't see it.
This would be like me attempting to shrug my shoulders or something. That's all attempted movement. That's what I was doing for the first couple of weeks when they were going to give me cursor control. When I was doing body mapping, it was attempt to do this, attempt to do that. When Nir was telling me to imagine doing it, it kind of made sense to me, but it's not something that...
people practice. If you started school as a child and they said, okay, write your name with this pencil. And so you do that. Like, okay, now imagine writing your name with that pencil. Kids would think, like, I guess, like that kind of makes sense. And they would do it. But that's not something we're taught. It's all like how to do things physically. We think about like
thought experiments and things, but that's not like a physical action of doing things. It's more like what you would do in certain situations. So imagine movement. It never really connected with me. I guess you could maybe describe it as a professional athlete swinging a baseball bat or swinging a golf club. Imagine what you're supposed to do, but then you go...
right to that and physically do it. Then you get a bat in your hand and then you do what you've been imagining. And so I don't have that connection. So telling me to imagine something versus attempting it, there wasn't a lot that I could do there mentally. I just kind of had to accept what was going on and try. But the attempted moving thing, it all made sense to me.
If I try to move, then there's a signal being sent in my brain. And as long as they can pick that up, then they should be able to map it to what I'm trying to do. And so when I first moved the cursor like that, it was just like, yes, this should happen. I'm not surprised by that.
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