{"id":226682,"date":"2025-12-07T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/after-neuralink-max-hodak-is-building-something-even-wilder"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:10:34","slug":"after-neuralink-max-hodak-is-building-something-even-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/after-neuralink-max-hodak-is-building-something-even-wilder","title":{"rendered":"After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-neuralink-max-hodak-is-building-something-even-wilder.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developing an advanced Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is only the beginning.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cIn order to prove a theory of consciousness is right, you have to see it for yourself,\u201d Hodak explains. \u201cThat will require these big brain-computer interfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hodak thinks that once humans understand how billions of neurons bind together to create a unified experience \u2014 what neuroscientists call \u201cthe binding problem\u201d \u2014 we can start doing truly wild things.<\/p>\n<p>I almost hesitate to say some of those wild things include multiple brains working to form one consciousness. \u201cYou could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain, possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing an advanced Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is only the beginning. \u201cIn order to prove a theory of consciousness is right, you have to see it for yourself,\u201d Hodak explains. \u201cThat will require these big brain-computer interfaces.\u201d Hodak thinks that once humans understand how billions of neurons bind together to create a unified experience \u2014 what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}