Researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs alike are working on developing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Among them is Elon Musk, who has been exploring the possiblity with neuralink. Brain-controlled devices in the form of prosthetics have already demonstrated cyborgs: they can also provide life-changing support for those who have lost the ability to use a limb or other part of their body due to injury or illness. As they work to make BCI’s a reality, neuroscientists are developing algorithms that decode movement-related brain activity. This work transleted specific brain activity who movement, which then connects physical action with the brain through smart devices and prosthetics Current efforts to create BCIs use what’s called “supervised decoders” which collect detailed moment movement information along with the neural activity While the process works in the technical sense, it’s not very practical, as it’s extremely time-consuming. Once this process is complete, researchers then use the information collected to train decoders, which in turn translate neural patterns into movement. Once fully developed, BCIs could revolutionize many of the technologies that we use everyday. from cell phones to autonomous vehicles to prosthetics, the manual controls that we use to operate devices could one day be eliminated and replaced by our very brains.

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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking