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    Brain implants have huge potential, long recognized in science and science fiction. They can potentially replace failing senses and muscles for the ill, enhance memory, provide new modes of communication, and other possibilities not yet imagined. Advances are coming from two directions - better brain interface technology, and better understanding of how the brain works. Eventually these will meet, and brain interfaces will be engineered explicitly to interact seamlessly with the human brain.

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    Brain implants have huge potential, long recognized in science and science fiction. They can potentially replace failing senses and muscles for the ill, enhance memory, provide new modes of communication, and other possibilities not yet imagined. Advances are coming from two directions - better brain interface technology, and better understanding of how the brain works. Eventually these will meet, and brain interfaces will be engineered explicitly to interact seamlessly with the human brain.

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    The Brain Implant Challenge PDF

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    Brain Implant Challenge from


    Empirical to Engineering

    Louis Scheffer
    HowardHughesMedicalInstitute
    JaneliaFarmResearchCampus

    Abstract
    Brainimplantshavehugepotential,longrecognizedinscienceandsciencefiction.Combinedwith
    othertechnologies,theycanpotentiallyreplacefailingsensesandmusclesfortheill,enhance
    memory,providenewmodesofcommunication,andothersupportotherpossibilitiesnotyet
    imagined.However,thebrainimplantswecanbuildtodayareveryfarfromthispotential.Theyare
    purelyempirical,anddependverylittleonhowthebrainactuallyworks.Almostuniversally,they
    observesomeportionofthebrain,notingwhateverpatternsmayappear,andthenusethese
    patternsasmeasurementsorcommands.Theresultingperformanceismuchworsethananun
    impairedorganism,andisonlyacceptedbecausethealternativesareworse.Advancesarecoming
    fromtwodirections,howeverbetterbraininterfacetechnology,andbetterunderstandingofhow
    thebrainworks.Eventuallythesewillmeet,andbraininterfaceswillbeengineeredexplicitlyto
    interactseamlesslywiththehumanbrain.Thisisaprojectofdecadesandnotjustyears,butthere
    appeartobenofundamentalbarriersonthispath.InthistalkIwillcoversomeoftheworkbeing
    doneonbothfronts,andwhatwecanexpectinthenearfuture.

    Bio
    LouSchefferisafellowattheJaneliaFarmResearchCampusoftheHowardHughesMedical
    Institute.Hisresearchthereisonthestructureandfunctionofthenervoussystem,usingtheoptical
    lobesofthefruitflyasamodelorganism.Beforethat,hespentabout30yearsinEDA,mostlywith
    CadenceDesignSystems,andbeforethatwasachipdesigner.HismainoutsideinterestisinSETI,
    thesearchforextraterrestrialintelligence.HegraduatedfromCaltechandStanford,andisthe
    authoroftheusualbooks,papers,andpatents.

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