<div dir="ltr"><table class="m_-2404528198721978156mobile-padding" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:504px;max-width:504px"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;font-family:Georgia,serif">Good morning,<br><br>The concept of a <strong>computer chip inside your brain</strong> sounds like it’s straight out of a science fiction movie. But it just became one step closer to reality, as Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company, announced <a href="https://e.email.forbes.com/c2/869:650a19efc0833fa44a0bab81:ot:5ff74765b52f2e83d75e3e88:1/4aad069e?jwtH=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9&jwtP=eyJpYXQiOjE2OTUyMTAyMTAsImNkIjoiLmVtYWlsLmZvcmJlcy5jb20iLCJjZSI6ODY0MDAsInRrIjoiZm9yYmVzLWxpdmUiLCJtdGxJRCI6IjY1MGE3MGI0YWFjNjQ2YTRjMjBjOGUwMiIsImxpbmtVcmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb21cL3NpdGVzXC9tb2xseWJvaGFubm9uXC8yMDIzXC8wOVwvMTlcL2Vsb24tbXVza3MtbmV1cmFsaW5rLXdhbnRzLXZvbHVudGVlcnMtZm9yLWZpcnN0LWh1bWFuLXRyaWFsLW9mLWl0cy1icmFpbi1pbXBsYW50LWNoaXA_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPWRhaWx5ZG96ZW4mY2RsY2lkPTVmZjc0NzY1YjUyZjJlODNkNzVlM2U4OCZzZWN0aW9uPWludHJvIn0&jwtS=mvPjbbL7gSq5lChAGRbpGNA7vqAxQevzeIsoAqhmJVc" target="_blank">it is recruiting participants</a> for its first in-human clinical trial.<br><br>The company has been working to create a fully implantable, wireless brain-computer interface for people with paralysis. A robot will be used to surgically place the implant’s “ultra-fine and flexible threads” into the brain, and the implant is supposed to “record and transmit brain signals wirelessly to an app that decodes movement intention,” per Neuralink.<br><br>The study will take about six years to complete, according to its brochure.<br>-------------------------------------------------<br>I am sure this raises many halakhic questions including shabbat</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div></div>