From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak

Summary

En esta entrevista, Max Hodak, fundador y CEO de Science, una empresa derivada de Neuralink, discute el desarrollo de la prótesis retinal Prima, que ayuda a restaurar la visión en pacientes ciegos y que recientemente recibió aprobación regulatoria en Europa. Hodak aborda la filosofía de ver el cerebro como una computadora, contrastando los avances de los implantes con la dificultad de los fármacos. También explora la relación entre la investigación de modelos de inteligencia artificial y la neurociencia, la búsqueda de la 'independencia del sustrato' para el cerebro y el futuro de la experiencia humana, incluyendo la adaptación a entornos como el espacio.

Topics covered

• El Cerebro como Computadora
• Prótesis Retinal Prima

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Transcript excerpt

the brain very literally, very clearly, plainly as a computer. You can solve computational problems by arranging matter in a certain way and then like taking your hands off and pressing go. We talk about being a brain in a vat, that's what the skull is. Like the brain is connected to the environment through a small number of wires, the cranial and spinal nerves, these little cables that carry your interaction with the world. If you can get the visual signal, auditory signal, balance, motor in and out of the brain, that is an end in itself, that is the central object. The retinal prosthesis is right now I think is [music] a great proof of concept that we're on the right track. Nobody had previously ever been able to restore a form vision image in the mind's eye of a of a blind patient in this way. We need to add [music] depth of gray scale, we think we could see a path to get at least red…