It’s not only brain-implanted electronics like Neuralink that shape a nightmarish or hopeful (depending on one’s taste or interests) near future for the organic fusion of the living with the mechanical. Australian techno-biologists from Monash University, in collaboration with others from the startup Cortical Labs, have managed to create a chip with approximately 800,000 embedded cells—human and mouse. This microcircuit works (according to its creators) both ways. The purely electrical part “reads” the cells’ activities but also guides them through electrical signals. The techno-biologists are enthusiastic: this chip reprograms much faster than classical silicon chips, which in the anthropomorphic argot of technologists is called “learning very quickly”…
You shouldn’t be surprised that this invention caught the attention of the relevant authorities who want to “learn very quickly.” Cortinal Labs received a $407,000 (USD) grant from the Australian intelligence services to continue its research.
They are moving very fast. And they are happy because they are out of control…