Chapter 186: Brain in a Vat Project!

As for what this idea is?
The idea is a brain-computer interface chip!

The so-called brain-computer interface chip is a human-computer communication chip that creates a direct connection between the brain of a person or animal and an external device, enabling the brain and the device to exchange information.

Among them, the research and development of brain-computer interface chips has been going on for quite some time, with a history of nearly thirty years.

After more than 30 years of scientific research and development, brain-computer interface chips can now not only output information from the brain, but also input information into the brain.

However, there is a problem that whether it is information input into the brain or information output from the brain, the accuracy of their information transmission has always been a big problem.

Taking brain-computer interface technology for inputting information into the brain as an example, there is a product called cochlear implant on the market.

This cochlear implant can collect external sounds and then convert them into electrical signals of specific frequencies to stimulate the organ nerves in the ear.

The nerves of these organs are interconnected with the brain, so electrical stimulation of the ear nerves can allow the brain to 'hear' sounds again.

Of course, although this cochlear implant can allow people to hear sounds again, in fact, according to the feedback from users, the "sound" heard is simply indescribable compared to the sound heard by normal ears.

All we can say is that it has reached the level of allowing people to communicate normally and meets the most basic human hearing communication needs, but there is no need to think too much about how good it is.

Of course, even though this cochlear implant has many shortcomings, it does solve the problem of many patients being unable to hear sounds, so it is currently the most successful brain-computer interface product on the market.

However, Lin Feng is not very fond of this information input technology that uses electrical signals to stimulate the nerves of human organs.

Although the development of such information input technology seems to be simpler, at least it is easier than implanting biocompatible flexible electrodes into the brain and allowing the biocompatible flexible electrodes to emit corresponding electrical signals.

This makes it easier to develop information input technology that simulates the brain's five senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and eating.

But the problem is that this technology of using electrical signals to stimulate the nerves of human organs and input information into the brain in disguised form has the disadvantage that it requires surgery on human organs.

It requires the implantation of biocompatible flexible electrodes into the nerves of human organs, and its subsequent development potential is quite limited.

After all, it is easy to deal with the ears and even the eyes. But it is not easy to transmit virtual information such as the feeling of touch, the smell, the taste, etc. to the brain and let the brain receive the virtual information.

We can't implant biocompatible flexible electrodes into the nerves of organs and even skin throughout the body. How high would the total cost be?

Therefore, Lin Feng still prefers to implant biocompatible flexible electrodes into the brain, allowing the biocompatible flexible electrodes to emit corresponding electrical signals.

I am more interested in the technical direction of transmitting false five sense information to the brain, ultimately making it impossible for people to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

After all, the information perceived by human organs is originally transmitted to the brain in the form of electrical signals. At this time, it is a bit of a waste of time to transmit information directly from the nerves of human organs.

It would be better to go straight to the point, give up transmitting information from the human organs and nerves, and directly input the information into the brain in the form of electrical signals from the brain. Of course, many things are easier said than done, and this technology of directly inputting information into the brain in the form of electrical signals is not so easy to develop.

If such technology were really easy to develop, then the global scientific research community would not focus mainly on human organ nerves, because the development of this technology is simply too difficult.

However, for Lin Feng, no matter how difficult the technology development is, it is not a big problem, as long as there is a direction for technology development.

After all, Lin Feng has an upgraded panel, so no matter how difficult the technical development is, it just requires more experience points.

After the technical problem of inputting virtual five-sense information into the brain is solved, the next problem is the output of brain information.

Speaking of brain information output technology, it was also a very popular technology before Lin Feng was reborn, much more popular than the brain-computer interface technology that inputs information into the brain.

Because Tesla's boss, Mascus, had a scientific research team that conducted a world-famous brain-computer interface chip experiment in September 2023.

The brain-computer interface chip has 3072 flexible electrodes, which collect high-definition brain wave signals from 3072 locations in the brain, allowing people to control electronic devices, robotic arms, or output text and voice, etc., which caused an uproar in the global technology circle.

Countless technology media around the world have praised Mascus as awesome, saying that Mascus' brain-computer interface chip is super black technology, etc., and have praised their brain-computer interface chip to the sky.

But as a person working in the technology circle in his previous life, Lin Feng naturally knew how much water there was in Masco's brain-computer interface chip.

In general, Mascus' brain-computer interface chips do have very advanced technical content, but in fact they are products that are secondary developed by integrating many already invented technologies.

In terms of technical content, Mascus' brain-computer interface chip is only at the first-class level and has not reached the level of crushing the world.

Of course, without further ado, the brain-computer interface chip that Lin Feng wanted to make at this time was not the brain-computer interface chip like Masc that could only collect high-definition brain wave signals to control electronic equipment, robotic arms, or output text and speech.

It is also not the kind of brain-computer interface chip that is popular in the global scientific research community, which stimulates organ nerves with electrical signals to allow the brain to hear or see something.

The brain-computer interface chip that Lin Feng wants to develop is one that has both the functions of 'information input into the brain' and 'brain information output'.

This type of brain-computer interface chip mainly implants tens or even hundreds of millions of biocompatible flexible electrodes into brain tissue without damaging the brain.

Then these tens or hundreds of millions of biocompatible flexible electrodes will collect brain wave signals with high definition.

These signals are then processed by external computers to achieve the purpose of controlling electronic devices, controlling robots, or outputting text, voice, and images through "thoughts".

At the same time, if necessary, these tens of millions or hundreds of millions of biocompatible flexible electrodes can themselves generate electrical signals.

After these electrical signals are transmitted to the brain neurons, the brain can perceive the information, just like the sounds heard by the ears are transmitted to the brain neurons in the form of electrical signals, allowing people to "hear" the sounds.

After that, with the powerful computing power of artificial intelligence Jarvis, theoretically, through this brain-computer interface chip, an extremely realistic virtual world can be constructed to implement the brain in a vat plan!
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