Brain implants to restore vision, such as Neuralink’s Blindsight, suffer from a fundamental problem: more pixels do not equal better vision
Elon Musk recently announced that the next Neuralink project will be a cortical implant to restore vision: “The resolution will be low at first, like the first Nintendo graphics, but eventually it may surpass normal human vision.” Unfortunately, this claim is based on the misconception that neurons in the brain are like pixels on a … Read more