{"id":26543,"date":"2016-06-06T21:32:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T04:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/elon-musk-thinks-we-should-insert-neural-laces-into-our-brains-so-we-can-become-cyborgs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:13","slug":"elon-musk-thinks-we-should-insert-neural-laces-into-our-brains-so-we-can-become-cyborgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/elon-musk-thinks-we-should-insert-neural-laces-into-our-brains-so-we-can-become-cyborgs","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk thinks we should insert \u2018neural laces\u2019 into our brains so we can become cyborgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-thinks-we-should-insert-neural-laces-into-our-brains-so-we-can-become-cyborgs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Too funny; 2 days ago the article was that Musk feared the future of Singularity and Cyborgs; now he believes that we should become cyborgs. Musk needs to make his mind up; however, I am beginning to wonder about him.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Related<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/elon-musk-simulation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk thinks we\u2019re basically living in the Matrix, and we should be glad about it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, in a conversation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/code-conference-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Recode\u2019s annual Code Conference<\/a>, Musk shared a tentative idea for something called \u201cneural laces,\u201d which he imagines could mitigate the risk of humanity becoming something of a pet to superintelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solution that seems maybe the best one is to have an AI layer,\u201d he said. \u201cSo think, if you have your limbic system, your cortex, and then a digital layer \u2014 sort of a third layer, above the cortex \u2014 that could work well and symbiotically with you. Just as your cortex works symbiotically with your limbic system, this digital layer would work symbiotically with the rest of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2016\/06\/06\/elon-musk-thinks-should-insert-neural-laces-into-our-brains-so-can-become-cyborgs.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2016\/06\/06\/elon-musk-thinks-shou...borgs.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too funny; 2 days ago the article was that Musk feared the future of Singularity and Cyborgs; now he believes that we should become cyborgs. Musk needs to make his mind up; however, I am beginning to wonder about him. Related: Elon Musk thinks we\u2019re basically living in the Matrix, and we should be glad [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,2019,47,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67298,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26543\/revisions\/67298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}