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What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years No one has had a Synchron brain-computer interface longer than Rodney Gorham. He's still finding new ways to use it.

What it's like to have a brain implant for 5 years www.wired.com/story/synchr... by @emilymullin.bsky.social (archived at archive.ph/SGMWt); #Synchron #Stentrode #BCI #NeuroTech #ALS

ChatGPT - Non-medical Vision Alternatives Shared via ChatGPT

ChatGPT about non-medical non-invasive alternatives: chatgpt.com/share/69a800...

Claude AI about non-medical non-invasive alternatives: claude.ai/share/9f82cf...

Don't tell Elon Musk.

Informed Consent Informed consent is a process in which a healthcare professional educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention. The history of informed consent in...

In the section on "Competition", with regard to functional vision, noninvasive approaches are conveniently omitted from Cortigent's document. What will this mean for informed consent? www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430...

YouTube video by seeingwithsound Bionic vision for the blind: use a brain implant or The vOICe sensory substitution?

Indeed, no comparable medical devices are FDA approved or have CE mark, but The vOICe is not a medical device and can likely take on the Orion brain implant with ease with respect to functional vision www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pewu... (YouTube side-by-side view); #BCI #blindness

Illustration of the Orion array implanted on the visual cortex.

Cortigent: "We are unaware of medical devices comparable to the Orion system (designed to restore certain forms of functional vision in persons who have become blind due to a broad range of causes) that have been approved by regulatory agencies in the U.S. or Europe" www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS Reports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS.

[OT] Looks like we will have to seriously consider switching to Linux in the coming years tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r... Windows 12 reportedly set for release this year as a fully modular, subscription-based, #AI-focused OS.

Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

Blind users of Meta glasses beware: Meta workers say they're seeing disturbing things through users' smart glasses futurism.com/artificial-i...

Temporary use of TMS to induce phosphenes in tandem with soundscapes is one of those ideas, but no one knows what, if anything, will work. Uncharted territory.

"Adverse event reporting that is incomplete and lacks specificity is not unique to the retinal implant literature."

Improve harms reporting in trials of microelectronic retinal implants journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Understanding retinal implant safety is key because it enables informed decision-making by patients and clinicians."

ChatGPT - Neuralink vs vOICe Comparison Shared via ChatGPT

To ChatGPT 5.2: How does a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant compare to The vOICe sensory substitution and how will the market evolve? chatgpt.com/share/69a736...

Indeed, relatively "extreme" cases like hyperphantasia may give some sort of existence proof of what the human brain is in principle capable of, just like lucid dreams and other mental states give hints of what may or should be possible once we know what we are doing. :-)

I was considering switching from ChatGPT to Claude AI, but thus far find Claude too dumb by using Elon Musk's claims as a source of comparisons claude.ai/share/dca0e9... Visual resolution of Neuralink Blindsight like Atari Graphics? BS. The vOICe limited to visible spectrum? BS.

Hyperphantasia: When Imagination Is as Vivid as Real Life What if the pictures in your mind were not just faint impressions? Hyperphantasia shows how imagination can become both a powerful resource and a hidden vulnerability.

[Psychology Today] #Hyperphantasia: when imagination is as vivid as real life www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind... by @sarune.bsky.social. Would people with hyperphantasia have an advantage in mastering sound-guided mental imagery? (visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind)

The State Of The $1.7 Trillion AI Bubble: The End Of Thinking Writing is thinking and thinking is understanding. Like understanding that the AI bubble has been around for a long time and that it's better to call it the data bubble.

[OT, Forbes] The state of the $1.7 trillion AI bubble: the end of thinking www.forbes.com/sites/gilpre... #LLM #AI #hype

[Futurism] The economy is lurching downward as fear of AI spreads futurism.com/artificial-i... "The cracks are starting to show."

Hyperphantasia: When Imagination Is as Vivid as Real Life What if the pictures in your mind were not just faint impressions? Hyperphantasia shows how imagination can become both a powerful resource and a hidden vulnerability.

[Psychology Today] #Hyperphantasia: when imagination is as vivid as real life www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind... by @sarune.bsky.social. Would people with hyperphantasia have an advantage in mastering sound-guided mental imagery? (visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind)

YouTube video by seeingwithsound Neuralink Blindsight or The vOICe? Visualize the soundscapes ahead of source image appearance!

Any #hyperphantasiacs here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVug... Sound-guided mental imagery, #hyperphantasia

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? www.nature.com/articles/d41... "People with #aphantasia are offering brain scientists a window into consciousness."

Photo of text document, in Russian.

And the annotated document after Vadim Artsev won the Neurothlon 2018 contest wearing The vOICe vision glasses, apparently completing the tasks in 49 seconds.

ARVO Foundation: 2026 Oberdorfer awardee recognized for outstanding research in low vision rehabilitation www.arvo.org/news/2026-ob... Gislin Dagnelie, Argus II retinal implant, ICVP brain implant (intracortical visual prosthesis)

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn - MIT McGovern Institute When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that with surprising precision, sending targeted feedback to individual neurons...

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn (well, as mice learn) mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/02/25/n... "the brain can deliver neuron-specific feedback during learning"; #neuroscience

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses (in mice) www.nature.com/articles/s41... via @gutlin.bsky.social; "After daily sound exposure, neural habituation in the primary auditory cortex (A1) was reversed by inactivating the OFC." #neuroscience

The ‘secret connections’ of the brain: a connectomic reserve for neuroplasticity? Using the vast network of connections of commissural neurons as an example, Lent et al. propose that expanded brain circuits may constitute a “connectomic

The 'secret connections' of the brain: a connectomic reserve for neuroplasticity? academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... #neuroscience #hypothesis

Reality Is a Shared Hallucination—And It’s at Risk of Collapsing, Scientist Claims When that happens, it can lead to some truly disturbing outcomes.

Reality is a shared hallucination—and it's at risk of collapsing, scientist claims www.popularmechanics.com/science/a700...

Hopefully the AI bubble will soon burst

YouTube video by seeingwithsound Argus II retinal implants and The vOICe sensory substitution vision glasses at Neurothlon 2018

YouTube playlist of Russian training activities at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYce...

Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell - Nature Communications Whether and how gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli (GENUS) has a role in antiepileptogenesis is not fully understood. Here authors show that GENUS reduces seizure susceptibility in male mice. The...

Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell (in epileptic mice) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ChatGPT - Controlled Hallucination and Sensory Substitution Shared via ChatGPT

To ChatGPT: Explain how reality as a controlled hallucination (@anilseth.bsky.social) relates to visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind. chatgpt.com/share/69a20b...

Photo of text document, in Russian.

For historians: document listing the two blind recipients of an Argus II retinal implant of Second Sight Medical Products and one blind user of The vOICe vision glasses participating at the Neurothlon 2018 contest in Samara, Russia, won by the user of The vOICe. #BCI #NeuroTech