Visual Cortex
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Hodak: Visual cortex stimulation produces light flashes, not structured vision
“From the 1.5 million optic nerve cells, that eventually connects up to a quarter billion to half a billion cells in visual cortex, And that, that in humans is extremely difficult to stimulate. No one is, I mean, you get some flashes of light if you do that, bu…”
Musk: Neuralink will do first human vision implants in 6-12 months
“And then I think in the next six to 12 months, we'll be doing our first implants for vision, where even if somebody's completely blind we can write directly to the visual cortex.”
Arbaugh: Neural interfaces are already writing to the brain through Blindsight
“I'm saying it's already happening. When you think of blind sight, that's exactly what they're doing. They're sending signals into the visual cortex and letting blind people see. Like, that is riding on the brain.”