{"id":226629,"date":"2021-02-02T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T08:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226629"},"modified":"2021-02-04T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T07:29:58","slug":"elon-musk-claims-he-has-a-monkey-with-a-brain-implant-that-can-play-video-games-with-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226629","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk claims he has &#8216;a monkey with a brain implant that can play video games with his mind&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">He also backs Bitcoin and aims to land humans on Mars in five-and-a-half years in Q&amp;A<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Musk said the monkey &#8216;is totally happy&#8217; and effort is part of Neuralink start-up<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He claimed the implant builds a digital link between the brain and a computer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Billionaire also said visiting Mars will be &#8216;very dangerous and hard work&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He made the comments during a Q&amp;A on Clubhouse, a private social app\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rachel Bunyan \u2013 Mail Online Feb 1, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elon-musk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-170958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elon-musk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>Elon Musk last night claimed he has put a Neuralink implant in a monkey&#8217;s brain and that the animal can play video games &#8216;with his mind&#8217; in a wide-ranging online question and answer session.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO said the monkey is &#8216;totally happy&#8217; and the effort is part of his &#8216;brain tech&#8217; start-up firm Neuralink which he hopes will eventually be able to help humans with brain and spinal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>In a Q&amp;A on Clubhouse, a private social app, Musk claimed the implant builds a digital link between the brain and a computer, describing it as &#8216;like a fitbit for the skull&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire inventor also claimed\u00a0humans will be visiting Mars in five-and-a-half years, but admitted it would be &#8216;very dangerous&#8217; as there &#8216;are far more ways to die out there than there are in Earth&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Musk added that Bitcoin is &#8216;on the verge&#8217; of being more widely accepted among investors as he expressed his support for the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>As he was peppered with questions by the audience of 5,000, Musk also said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He wants to put humans on Mars in five-and-a-half years, but admitted it would be &#8216;very dangerous and hard work&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin is &#8216;on the verge&#8217; of being more widely accepted among investors as he expressed his support for the cryptocurrency<\/li>\n<li>He has seen no &#8216;conclusive evidence&#8217; that aliens exist but it&#8217;s &#8216;quite possible&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>His boosting of online currency Dogecoin is intended as a joke<\/li>\n<li>His children &#8216;are mostly educated through YouTube and Reddit&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>He aims to produce 20million Teslas every year worldwide<\/li>\n<li>He things Chris Nolan&#8217;s Tenet is a good film\u00a0 but &#8216;if you think too hard about it, it\u2019s not going to make complete sense, but it\u2019s a good movie.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>He also enjoys Netflix&#8217;s Karate Kid sequel franchise Cobra Kai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Musk, who has invested $100 million in Neuralink, claimed the start-up has a &#8216;monkey facility&#8217; where one monkey has a &#8216;wireless implant&#8217; in its skull.<\/p>\n<p>He said:\u00a0&#8216;We&#8217;ve already got a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull and the tiny wires who can play video games using his mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s totally happy. He does not look like an unhappy monkey,&#8217; he added. &#8216;He&#8217;s not uncomfortable and he doesn&#8217;t look weird.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re trying to work out if we can get the monkeys to play mind pong with each other, you know that would be pretty cool.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Musk also claimed that when a US Department of Agriculture official came to inspect their monkey facilities, she was mightily impressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When the USDA person came through and inspected our facilities, our monkey facilities, she said it was like the nicest monkey facilities she&#8217;s ever seen in her career,&#8217; he said. &#8216;We went the extra mile for the monkeys.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Musk has been no stranger to using animals in his scientific experiments. In August last year, he said Neuralink had implanted a computer-chip in the brain of a pig called Gertrude.<\/p>\n<p>He said in the short-term, Neuralink would be able to address brain injuries and spinal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It would make up for whatever lost capacity somebody has with an implanted chip,&#8217; he said. &#8216;So the first thing we are going after is a wireless implanted chip that would enable someone who [has a brain injury or spinal injury]\u00a0to control a computer or mouse or phone or really any device just by thinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9209731\/Elon-Musk-claims-monkey-brain-implant-play-video-games-mind.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can be certain that this is being done with an eye to develop brain implants for humans <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":226635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Implants_and_surveillance_technology","category-mind_control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226634,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226629\/revisions\/226634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}