Nolan Arbaugh
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Yeah, just that in imagined movement, you're not attempting to move at all. So you're like visualizing yourself doing it.
Yeah. I mean, it makes sense to me.
yeah it's something that i feel like naturally anyone would do if you try to tell someone to imagine doing something they might close their eyes and then start physically doing it um but it's just didn't click yeah it's it's hard it was very hard at the beginning but attempted worked attempted worked it worked just like it should work like work like a charm um
Yeah, it blew my mind, like no pun intended, blew my mind when I first moved the cursor just with my thoughts and not attempting to move. It's something that I found over the couple of weeks building up to that, that as I get better cursor controls, like the model gets better, then it gets easier for me to... I don't have to attempt as much to move it.
And part of that is something that I'd even talked with them about when I was watching the signals of my brain one day. I was watching when I attempted to move to the right and I watched the screen as I saw the spikes. I was seeing the spike, the signals being sent before I was actually attempting to move.
I imagine just because when you go to, say, move your hand or any body part, that signal gets sent before you're actually moving, has to make it all the way down and back up before you actually do any sort of movement. So there's a delay there. And I noticed that there was something going on in my brain before I was actually attempting to move.
that um my brain was like anticipating what i wanted to do and that all started sort of um i don't know like percolating in my brain like it just it was just sort of there like always in the back like that's so weird that it could do that it kind of makes sense but i wonder what that means um as far as like using the neural link and um
And then as I was playing around with the attempted movement and playing around with the cursor, and I saw that as the cursor control got better, that it was anticipating my movements and what I wanted it to do, like cursor movements, what I wanted to do a bit better and a bit better. And then one day I...
just randomly as I was playing WebGrid, I looked at a target before I had started attempting to move. I was just trying to get over, train my eyes to start looking ahead, like, okay, This is the target I'm on. But if I look over here to this target, I know I can maybe be a bit quicker getting there. And I looked over and the cursor just shot over. It was wild. I had to take a step back.
I was like, this should not be happening. All day, I was just smiling. I was so giddy. I was like, guys, do you know that this works? I can just think it and it happens. Which, like, they'd all been saying this entire time, like, I can't believe, like, you're doing all this with your mind. I'm like, yeah, but is it really with my mind?
Like, I'm attempting to move, and it's just picking that up, so it doesn't feel like it's with my mind. But when I moved it for the first time like that, it was... Oh, man. It, like, it... made me think that this technology, that what I'm doing is actually way, way more impressive than I ever thought.
It was way cooler than I ever thought and it just opened up a whole new world of possibilities of like what could possibly happen with this technology and what I might be able to be capable of with it.
That's what it felt like. I didn't feel like... I felt like I had discovered something, but for me, maybe not necessarily for the world at large or this field at large. It just felt like an aha moment for me. Like, oh, this works. Obviously it works. And so that's what I do all the time now. I kind of intermix the attempted movement and imagined movement.
I do it all together because I've found that there is some interplay with it that maximizes efficiency with the cursor. So it's not all one or the other. It's not all just, I only use attempted or I only use imagined movements. It's more I use them in parallel and I can do one or the other. I can just completely think about whatever I'm doing. But I don't know. I like to play around with it.
I also like to just experiment with these things. Every now and again, I'll get this idea in my head like, hmm, I wonder if this works and I'll just start doing it. And then afterwards, I'll tell them, by the way, I wasn't doing that like you guys wanted me to. Yeah. I was, I thought of something and I wanted to try it. And so I did. It seems like it works.
So maybe we should like explore that a little bit.
Yeah, so it's just an app that Neuralink created to help me interact with a computer. So on the Link app, there are a few different settings and different modes and things I can do on it. So there's the body mapping, which we kind of touched on. There's a calibration. Calibration is... how I actually get cursor control.
So calibrating what's going on in my brain to translate that into cursor control. So it will pop out models. What they use, I think, is like time. So it would be, you know, five minutes in calibration will give me so good of a model. And then if I'm in it for 10 minutes and 15 minutes, the models will progressively get better. So the longer I'm in it, generally, the better the models will get.
Yeah, yeah, so Snake is kind of like my litmus test for models. If I can control Snake decently well, then I know I have a pretty good model. So yeah, the Link app has all of those. It has WebGrid in it now. It's also how I connect to the computer just in general. So they've given me a lot of voice controls with it at this point. So I can say connect or implant disconnect.
And as long as I have that charger handy, then I can connect to it. So the charger is also how I connect to the Link app to connect to the computer. I have to have the implant charger over my head when I want to connect to have it wake up because the implant's in hibernation mode, like always when I'm not using it. I think there's a setting to wake it up every so long.
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