"I think it is very possible that the first people to live to a thousand are alive right now. It still takes some suspension of disbelief because I think biotech has just been so incremental. One of th..."

"do? What are they able to do now? >> So the brain is this powerful computer, but it's encased in the skull. Like it is not magically connected to things. And so um it has these these handful of connec..."

"have to get BCIs when you're incredibly young while the brain is still plastic? like how does all this come together? >> Neuroplasticity is really interesting and really misunderstood. Um there are ge..."

"not getting input from the from the optic nerve, it is still trying to see things. So it kind of turns up the noise. And so um blind patients often report like hallucinations and these like internally..."

"down this this path and then at the end you run a study and the answer is no and then it's like where do you go from there? There's been a huge amount of work that's gone into finding drugs to to like..."

"architecture than like a like a vonoyoman architecture electrical computer, but it processes information. It gets information down one of 12 cranial nerves or 31 spinal. So all of the information that..."

"technology was all there that that would be possible circuit 2021 and that was also further from stuff that I had worked on before and so it felt like a good thing for us to to kind of go explore. I t..."

"you can surround that consciousness with like the correct inputs. >> Yeah. I mean this also gets into questions of like what is consciousness like the how does the brain create our experience. There's..."

"connection Like what would how did or if you wanted to make a new cranial nerve. So instead of having an optic nerve or a vestigular nerve, it wanted to have like the internet nerve like how would nat..."

"two synapses from the muscle. So it projects all the way from the top of the head down to the spine, and then there's another synapse from the spine out to the muscle. And so the representation that y..."

"power efficient enough that they wouldn't get hot. And so I think the thing that made this possible is is what we call the smartphone dividend. Like BCI couldn't have done this on its own, but Apple a..."

"alive on a on an ECMO circuit. ECMO is sacra corporeal membrane oxygenation. this fancy word for like heart lung machine. And in his case, his heart was okay, but his lungs had failed. And so this was..."

"science even though there's these several different projects, I really see them as like as one project over the next 10 years. So you know started as an engineer um first principles thinking which oft..."

"follow through on that. But that only works if you have a sense of where you want to go. And so the first is like figure out what you want. The thing I didn't do was my so after college I started a co..."