How Neuralink Will Solve *Most* Blindness 

I was born with Retinoblastoma in both of my eyes. They removed my left eye when I was around 1 years old. They performed 70 surgeries on my right eye, yep, 70, including freezing the eye solid twice, and giving the eye twice the amount of recommended radiation to kill the cancer in my right eye. For 40 years I was graced with being able to see out of my right eye, even if it was badly damaged, even if the physical impact made others judge me harshly my entire life. I had a bad life, overall, but I was GRACED with the ability to see. But 2 and a half years ago my right optic nerved atrophied, and now I've lost 99% of my vision. What I see now is NOT traditional blindness either, I am being assaulted by lights all day, all night. I've seen things that nobody would ever believe during this process. It has been like stuff out of a sci ffi fantasy movie, the things I've seen. My eye doctor can't do anything. They told me the optic nerve has atrophied, and now they just look in the eye every 6 months, then send me out the door. All day, all night, even with my eyelids closed, I see what looks like a car headlight SHINING inside my brain. It is unescapable. I can't get away from it. Every waking moment is torture, and even I know saying this SOUNDS hyperbolic, but it is NOT. I am suffering every single day, just praying for some kind of medical treatment that will help me. My top two hopes are Elon Musk's Nueral Link, and Dr David Sinclair's optic nerve regenreation genetic therapy treatment that 'might' be going in to Human Trials soon(tm) I don't know what the Neural Link would do for me, since I still can see some light through the bright fog that is plaguing me. I can see windows in the day time, or lamps / light bulbs emitting light. But I have lost all visual ability to see / read / or even see my own face in a mirror. I... need this. I need help. I'm 43 years old. I don't think I can do this for potentially 40 more years. But I don't want to off myself to escape it. I don't WANT to give up, as much as this is trying to MAKE me give up. I just need help... someone to help me. Soemthing to help me. But I know the odds of getting that help, are basically non-existent. Thank you for this video.

I have ms and I'm going blind. Thanks to the Neuralink team for giving me hope

I can’t wait to re-watch this clip in 5-10years time. It’s exciting being on the cusp of something massive like this

The potential is enormous, the government should be helping an initiative like this by expanding laboratories and research. Blindness, paralysis in the near future may indeed occur a cure. I have tinnitus and I also hope that in the future it will solve my problem.

My daughter had a strike at 36 that left her blind. There was optic nerve damage thru the brain stem. She's 42 now but still blind. She will gladly be your guinea pig for testing on humans. Please consider her for testing. She would be able to have her quality of life back. Thank you for consideration.

An old friend of mine lost one eye and got retina detachment on the other between other injuries after a terrible bus accident, he survived by miracle. I am searching for alternatives for him. This technology seems so so promising, my friend is 54, and I hope he can see again in his lifetime.

I am 44 years old, and got diagnosed with advanced diabetic retinopathy at the age of 37. I have a wife and a kid who was born premature, and I was the sole provider. Unfortunately things happened and we had to do what we could to do our best to keep going. 2018 after four surgeries, lost most of my vision. As of right now I have zero visibility out of the right eyeball, and about 70% or more lost from the left with just a very small pinhole view from all the scar tissue and retina that was cut away. I’ve been praying and hoping every day for the last 6+ years of getting Vision back to be able to go back into my field of work, provide for my family, and get my mental sanity back! Really hoping that this happens very soon and I would love to be someone that would volunteer for a clinical trial!

I am not blind not entirely . But this is wonderful news , anything that offers is hope for someone suffering blindness. Able to see just enough is enough

Love your work James T. Let's hope for Peace so the Future will be Built

Brain technology is the main field, not brain-computer interfaces. It is only a specialty, not a major field. Brain technology has many disciplines, including neuroengineering, brain science, electroencephalography (EEG), brain-computer interfaces (BCI), fMRI, fMRI, near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), computational neuroscience, neuroanalytics, behavioral neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and magnetic brain stimulation.

Thanks Ryan!

I'm looking forward to this I hope for sci case

⁠There are 7 types of brain Technology, including 1 Neuroengineering is the study of the brain and its nervous system from the point of view of engineering and technology and aims to develop tools and devices to help people with brain injuries or neurological diseases 2 Neuroscience is the study of the brain and its nervous system from the point of view of biological sciences and aims to understand the process of learning, memory, perception and other neurological functions 3 Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), a technology that allows people to interact with computers or electronic devices using the neural activity of the brain 4 Electroencephalography - EEG, which is a technique of recording the electrical activity of the brain using electrodes installed on the scalp and used to diagnose neurological diseases and study nervous activity 5 Magnetic resonance imaging - MRI, which is a brain imaging technique using a magnetic field and used to diagnose neurological diseases 6 Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy - fNIRS It is a technique for recording changes in blood flow to the brain using near infrared radiation and is used to study neural activity and analyze the brain 7 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - fMRI, which is a brain imaging technique using a magnetic field to identify areas that are active during the performance of neurological tasks and is used to study neuronal activity and medical diagnosis?

What about in the case of a lazy eye syndrome where you have some vision but it's limited, it's not a clear vision and corrective lenses cannot give you a clear vision. Could that be helped with this technology?

Fixing such problems sounds great but putting computer chips in people's brains seems like it could lead to them being too easily spied on and controlled by others. People usually do hold sensitive information in their brains like passwords, combinations, social security numbers, private key seed phrases. How would they maintain access to these without risking that someone could get their sensitive info through the brain chip?

Great ideal!👍

I hope they are able to restore some vision function. If they do that at all then it's just a matter of time before full vision or more is available to the blind. I cannot think of a more worthwhile starting point for Neuralink.

Amazing! I'm glad theres hope and grateful that possibilities that will bring blindness and paralysis through Neuralink technology and change things. Thank you! for your insight and Elon Musk God bless you always.

I would have an interest in this.Not in its primary state.But more in its advanced state. I’m a Bi-Polar Epileptic,who was born with a rare state of having 2 lenses in my right eye,causing blurred blindness,no doubt based on the fact that my other eye had 20/20 vision. I also have lower spinal issues,(also a neurological issue but an issue which will see me entirely cripple as I get older. So it’s obvious I would have interest in Elon Musks concept. I’ve confronted the reality of brain surgery,since I was once admitted into a neurological department to check for the brain tumour 🧠. Spending 6 weeks with fellow patients undergoing neurological surgeries that allows one the chance do deal with the process going through surgery. Although I never required the surgery. I gained value able information. I taught myself to think 360’ infinatem as I introduced sculptural thought with 360’ thought and helped me to turn my negative issues into positive ones. I now benefit from them and see Elons NeuroLink as a means to unlock many more doors that have been locked 🔒 for too long now since there is nothing I can do about a blind eye except teach myself to see in 360’ infinitum thanx to sculptural thought. I believe that Neuralink will resolve many problems for many people. A life without epilepsy would prove interest,although it taught me to be resilient. There’s good from all negative. It’s how you choose to interact with it that makes the difference.

We live on hope to see the light ☀️ when we see blind there is no hope 🙏🕊️🌅🤗

Do you think it is possible in the future to replace the image from cameras sending pictures to the brain with some kind of movie?)))

5:40 sounds like fun job :3

So cool

The back surgery story: I pulled my back while trying to remove a rusty U-Haul trailer hitch grime my car. After going to their office to complain, they sent a person with a small sledgehammer to break it loose. That night I was in the hospital due to a disc compression have ripped. Rather than going the ice pack to reduce it, the surgeons talked me into having it trimmed to avoid touching my wall of nerves. Success! Years later my ankles started hurting. Surgery again! This time pain management. They clipped a nerve on my back to stop the pain. Success! No more pain, in fact no sensation on my feet. Later on my right foot started to be inward. Under my big toe was numb so I could no longer control the weight of pressure and it caused my ankle to bend inward. This is when I realized I should not had the surgery period. Now I am thinking the spinal cord has a gap or I should say the interface between my brain and body are at a disconnect. Maybe a electronic link may have fix this and may avoid surgery…

c6 and ready!!

Outstanding video, James is so exciting to watch and listen to, his presentation really appeals to me (as an old guy).

Yeah so its important to take it

I hope it works

I also could use this

we do realise when he says "will be able to see in different wavelengths" he's talking about X-Ray vision don't we

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I was born with optic atrophy could this work eith my condition

That is fantastic be cause one day possibilitie may lose my vision in my right eye I. Had Lazer surgery on left is stable

Woukd this technology be able correct amblobia

This is what I'm asking for damn

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What I dont know is how they convert a digital video format into a signal that the brain understands!

If we can see what a camera sees in our brain it's already surpasses VR AR gadgets!

I am Ayush I am from India I wanted to know that when can neurolink is useful for common men. When it comes to India and worldwide. I think it's a very usefull 1:24 for blind peoples and other disabilities.

with this i hope my currently one year old daughter will be able to see the world

only perfect in everything thing everywhere

I don't see this being very specific. The main problem I see is that Neuralink is like putting 360° microphone/speaker combos throughout a crowd of people. From the microphone you can pick out individual people, and get quite a granular understanding of who's saying what, even though you're picking up maybe 100 people. But when you output through the speaker, it's heard by 100 people and no one knows who you're talking to. I don't see they're going to solve this with the current approach. They'd need to stimulate either individual neurons or axons very specifically to get reusltion and I don't believe the physics we're using right now makes that possible. So while I definitely see output from probes being able to pick up very fine detail to get info OUT of the brain, I really don't see how they're going to get useful info IN to the brain. Also, I don't see how they would get electrodes into the spine. I mean, the brain is right there when you open up the skull. Depending on where on the skull you're opening up, there's either no muscle or just a paper-thin sheet. Also, from skin to brain it's all relatively static . Over the spine you have tons of thick muscles and thick chunks of weight-bearing bone. All of that and the spinal cord inside is moving around quite a bit. I don't see how they're going to get wires in there. The periferal nerves seem like a bit better bet for controlling muscles.

Elon debería crear una enpresa especializada no solo en implantes cerebrales sino tambien en fusionar la tecnología con el tegido vivo a un nivel más estructural y mecánico.

My mom is going blind. I was thinking about artificial eyes, but they would be very complicated. You can buy eyeglasses that have a miniature, high res camera molded into the frame. I believe images from the camera could communicate with the visual cortex via blue tooth and the Nueralink electrode effectively bypassing the eyes. Who can I contact to develop this concept?

As long it doesn't have a way to communicate to then its illegal

One thing I want is a brain-connected game imaged in more than three dimensions. It seems tricky but doable.

HOLD THE PHONE . . . . . . DID ELON JUST HINT ON "PREDATOR VISION" 🤩

5hey said my optical nerves are damaged please help me I went blind 5 times

Thats fantastic.maybe a chip company is a good start for ideas like these.

I want my eyes to glow

Will this implant be able to bypass a damaged optic nerve from having a tumour removed from the nerve that resulted in blindness in one eye

Faster, Mr. Elon and Co., hunting for a singularity

I like so I can watch a movie while sleeping, even if my vision is normal. That's progress

Can u see what they see?

Hello how are you I really would appreciate if you talked about getting cured by schizophrenia in a video and talking about how to get cure from schizophrenia thank you

Respect Mr Elon Musk!

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I have RP ???

Woah, James is rocking a Neon Genesis Evangelion shirt. this dude fawkin classy. lets not perform any Additional impacts, oh tay? Also the Sight Function looks like Geordi La Forge vision.

But neuralink is not available at every country

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nO You do not need wire for vishion you need a sheet over the brain loads. TV and micro lcd do not have wire they have sheets

ok wheres my cybertruck first.....lol

I'm not so sure whatvwas done to the monkeys correlates to what is supposed to be accomplished here. First it was Quads, then ALS, now Blindness... but so many monkeys suffered so severely before being killed ... just to play Pong?

I was under the impression Nuron Link was being installed to some individuals 5 years ago so people could be cognitively symbiotic to AI message transmission...

Well, yes, some blindness. Not all blindness.

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I had a customer that could hear 👂 sound perfectly, but her brain could not interpret it to language, otherwise she could read and work normaly, the brain 🧠 is complex.

I don't know why RU-vid decided to recommend this video, but I am glad it did. This way, I could dislike it.

Need something non invasive.

I think Stephen Hawkin may have even bigger issues!

Don’t believe the hype, the guy is full of it. Neuralink has ground to a halt since Hodak left, Musk is doing to that company what he did to twitter.

Curalink 😶‍🌫

So, the main question is what is happening with the human subjects' trial begin? I see news as others are OK and doing trials, Musk and Neuralink being pushed to the side and investigated... If this is politically motivated, as I see it, it is the worst possible thing happening to the USA and the rest of the world...

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No

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The blindness affecting all of us is spiritual. Only Jesus Christ opens blind eyes healing the soul. Science is a necessary application of knowledge. But to deny Sovereignty of God and the omniscience of God is the deception of false wisdom from satan.

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honestly, your reviews of neural link make me upset

No this is the beginning of AI

Elon is being Elon. Blabbing at length about things that he knows absolutely nothing about. And things that are much more complex and intractable than he or most people think. The eye to brain connection is extremely complex. It's not a simple video channel. It's very subtly engineered and encoded and it's quite possibly using a different encoding for each individual. Not a channel that you can just plug and play. Showing a monkey with electrodes in its brain controlling a blinky light, that means NOTHING. The visual interface is a million times more complex and the data rates are also a million times higher. It's just like Elon's many other exaggerations, like Hyperloop (dead), full self driving (6 years late, Tesla warns you that you've just spent $15,000 for something that doesn't work as named), Tesla semi (not a single one in private hands, no true range numbers, several misleading ones), Tesla pickup truck (4 years late, glass breaks, contrary to his claims, ), Heavy booster (fail), the list of lies is almost endless.

The 'tiny chip' is a foreign body in the brain and may result in Septicaemia which is fatal - blindness is not.

Unfortunately due to his idiotic statements, Xeet's etc, he's undermined his own credibility.

Nobody is interested in it.

This tech is evil.

Received your email today. Thanks... I really would like to give more information and have a serious conversation NueroLink team.

i'd bet it will not