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Building brain-computer interfaces: the 3 pillars of #Paradromics https://paradromics.com/blog/building-brain-computer-interfaces-3-pillars/ referencing TK Kozai (2015…

Building Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
We treat safety, performance, & durability not as tradeoffs but as minimum thresholds. Learn how the Connexus BCI was designed to meet all 3.

For my own notes, These are the apps I use on my #Pebble Time 2
* [Brain Dump](https://apps.repebble.com/brain-dump-index01-for-your-pebble_e4f66f24bb0a4…

Just saw that #genAI models now have a "how to protect the environment" suggestion... which suggests to use different genAI models 😇🤣🤦
You want to know the best way to save energy and protect the environment?

• do not use genAI (use your own brain, or your friends')
• while you're at it, protest all the data centers that are getting built to support all that "energy-saving"…

Can red-light therapy treat brain injuries? Some research shows 'striking' results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7581642/2026/09/11/red-light-therapy-brain-injuries-journal-of-neurotrama/

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

William Gibson mentioned this Bowie song in his stream today, and how it had risen up in his mind. I was not familiar with it, but now I see the lyrics I understand why it feels topical.
Five Years, by David Bowie:

Nature does something surprising to the brain beyond relieving stress https://www.earth.com/lifestyle/nature-does-something-surprising-to-the-brain-beyond-relieving-stress/

Nature does something surprising to the brain beyond relieving stress
Nature may do more than relieve stress, with evidence suggesting it can improve mood and thinking even when people already feel fine.

What a total drag. I met Jennifer a few times in 1991. What I recall most is how down to earth she was. A real people connector too. I reconnected with her in the late 90s when she was promoting her band Other Star People. She remembered me, which is totally unusual for a rock star. Great person.
Let's help her beat this horrible disease.

What patients actually think about 'minimally invasive' brain implants https://archive.ph/gm7le (archived from https://www.…

A new #LifeHack just dropped.
I carry a "medicine organizer" with four compartments where I keep four portions of glucose. The problem is, I never remember which ones I took and refilled recently (I don't need it often), so I don't know which ones are the oldest.
Today I've figured out to shift everything left while refilling, so the oldest always are in the first compartment.
You don't need to congratulate my on the speed of my brain.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wah Wah Wah:
🎵 Brain Overload
#WahWahWah
https://wahwahwah.bandcamp.com/track/brain-overload
https://open.spotify.com/track/0cYBQxqkQdlWLqqC2x4Odv

me:
my brain: Bran from Game of Thrones was stark raven mad

Troy Aikman confesses about his "ridiculous" daily routine to protect brain after surviving 10 career concussions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/troy-aikman-concussions-daily-…

Wer nutzt #orgmode für #Journalling?
Ich komme von #Logseq und lege mir dort bei jedem Tag einen Eintrag an. Dieser ist mit einem Hauptthema verlinkt. So komme ich vom Hauptthema zum Tag oder vom Tag zum H…

Synergistic entrainment: a multiscale neurodynamic framework for closed-loop cross-modal neuromodulation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-026-10503-6 Similarly, opt for timed hybrid use of brain implant and sensory substitution?

Synergistic entrainment: a multiscale neurodynamic framework for closed-loop cross-modal neuromodulation - Cognitive Neurodynamics
The brain’s higher cognitive functions rely on the dynamic integration of multimodal information, supported by coordinated neural oscillations. However, current neuromodulation approaches often fail to reliably control these dynamics due to high inter-individual variability and limited mechanistic grounding. To address this challenge, we introduce the Synergistic Entrainment Framework, which conceptualizes the brain as a dynamical system in which neural oscillations create periodic windows of…

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor (Alexei Oreskovic/Fortune)
https://fortune.c…

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles
Subsense’s brain computing interface could compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, but would not require surgery.

Dogs can tell fear from sadness — and scientists saw it in their brains https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811011132.htm
Dogs can tell if you're scared or sad

Dogs can tell fear from sadness — and scientists saw it in their brains
Dogs may understand our emotions more deeply than scientists realized. Brain scans show that happy human faces activate regions in dogs linked to higher-level processing and reward, suggesting that smiles carry special emotional significance for them.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
TVOD:
🎵 Wet Brain
#TVOD
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://televisionoverdose.bandcamp.com/track/wet-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hGvkifKlk8MbqrhQloipy

Work is mostly good for our brains.
The evidence is strong that cognitive decline speeds up after retirement.
Now some people with hard physical jobs simply can’t keep them up.
The point here is what retirement means.
If you move from your job to other work such as volunteering,
new leisure activities,
learning new and complex skills,
then that’s actually not retirement.
You’re still at work.
Retirement to the couch and Netflix is a …

Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff
In his new book The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive decline

Dopamine, emotional regulation, healing, health and more - a great episode of Hidden Brain on 'what art does for your brain' with Daisy Fancourt and of course Shankar Vedantam
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-art-does-for-your-brain/

What Art Does For Your Brain - Hidden Brain Media
Think about the last time a piece of music stopped you in your tracks, or a novel kept you up late at night. Why do these experiences feel so powerful? 

Having tinnitus, I found this interesting .
#tinnitus

(2022) Using the Orion brain implant for restoring vision, "Three years on, I can now make out fireworks, the birthday candles on my cake, and spot the lights and darks when doing laundry." https://www.thatslife.com.au/real-life/brain-implant-blindness…

Jason was blinded in a car crash – then a brain implant changed his life
Jason got a second chance at sight thanks to brain surgery where a surgeon implanted a device on his visual cortex.

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

Behind the Blog: Rare Books and Baseball Brain https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-rare-books-and-baseball-brain/

Mum Brain
Join TV news journalist Estelle Griepink as she consults the collective mum brain to get you the answers you need to know in ten minutes or less...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mum-brain/

"EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Pesticides

EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development
New study on fluazinam’s neurotoxicity comes up with different findings from earlier report based on manufacturer’s data

Brain-Computer-Interface: ALS-Patient nutzt Hirnimplantat 19 Monate lang
Ein ALS-Patient hat ein Brain-Computer-Interface fast zwei Jahre lang täglich zu Hause genutzt. Die Studie liefert wichtige Belege für die Alltagstauglichkeit.

Brain-Computer-Interface: ALS-Patient nutzt Hirnimplantat 19 Monate lang
Ein ALS-Patient hat ein Brain-Computer-Interface fast zwei Jahre lang täglich zu Hause genutzt. Die Studie liefert wichtige Belege für die Alltagstauglichkeit.

Matt was a long time hero of mine. It's been wild to watch his brain cook and totally fall from a place of being worth any respect over the last few years.
I think I have 2 - 3 people remaining from the early web I still look too and I wish them luck.
And I wish myself luck in seeing people make mistakes and still finding value in their good ideas.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg reportedly placed on leave
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg claims the company’s chief financial officer “conspired” with board members to place him on leave, 404 Media reports. 

The problem with adaptive DBS https://tmrwedition.com/2026/09/12/the-problem-with-adaptive-dbs/ Critique on closed-loop brain stimulation for treating Parkinson's disease: over-reliance on the beta signal. Should also monitor tremor, gait, balance and dyskinesia fo…

The Pros and Cons of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation (aDBS)
Explore the pros and cons of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation, highlighting patient control issues and potential for better real-world data integration.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260721000822.htm

Please read this superb post by @deevybee.bsky.social
I agree with every word of it.
Science is endangered by the demand for speed and by AI slop.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-leap-into-future-or-off-cliff.html

Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from brain https://www.newscientist.com/article/2588451-bursts-of-pink-noise-during-sleep-seem-to-help-flush-waste-from-brain/ (archived at

Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from brain | New Scientist
The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process

Can Red-Light Therapy Treat Brain Injuries? - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/09/11/2037218/can-red-light-therapy-treat-brain-injuries

"Europe needs stronger enforcement, greater transparency, and more independent scrutiny of industry science. When credible evidence points to risks for children’s neurological development, public health must come before commercial interests."
https://www.

EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development
New study on fluazinam’s neurotoxicity comes up with different findings from earlier report based on manufacturer’s data

Spotted this in the 9yo's new classroom, and told the teachers that I appreciate it!
#NoAI #FuckAI

Right. My brain is fried so it’s time to head home. But I got 95% of my new website reviewed, proofed and updated, so I’m delighted with that. We’re still on course for a go-live next week. 🎉 #WorkToots

1/10
#MathsMonday
This article was referred to me - https://puzzlewocky.com/brain-teasers/probability-puzzles/ever…

EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/02/eu-approved-pesticide-found-to-have-potential-effects-on-brain-development
…

The House of Da Vinci (Multi, XP'd on PC) An explosion rocks the tower after a guard gives you a note from Leonardo. Follow his trail and uncover the secrets before it's too late.
Back to the thinky pain games, this time with more of a hidden object type game. Find and open hidden panels, unlock doors, manipulate and combine objects you find to create tools, etc.
Nice setting for this one, Renaissance Italy is always a cool place to check out, and traipsing through Le…

On the seductive promise of phrenology and its progeny
https://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/popular_science

Your Brain Detects Danger Before You Can Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDXLgy4JM8M

Haberman: 70% of Trump's brain on monuments (Mike Allen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/13/trump-haberman-legacy-projects-behind-the-curtain
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p20#a260813p20

"The rise of blue-space therapy: how the sea is helping people deal with trauma, anxiety and addiction"
#Nature #Environment

The rise of blue-space therapy: how the sea is helping people deal with trauma, anxiety and addiction
‘Sea cures’ are not new but the idea that exposure to oceans, rivers and lakes can be medicine for the brain is gaining traction

Something to help cool your brain.
#RockyMountainNationalPark #naturephotography #elkOfMastodon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Horse Lords:
🎵 Brain of the Firm
#HorseLords
https://horselords.bandcamp.com/track/brain-of-the-firm
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DHt1bMH83gSBStd1aNj36

The Brain and The Chip 2026, October 26-28, Spain #BCI

Dopamine, emotional regulation, healing, health and more - a great episode of Hidden Brain on 'what art does for your brain' with Daisy Fancourt and of course Shankar Vedantam
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-art-does-for-your-brain/

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Funkadelic:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#Funkadelic
https://derrok.bandcamp.com/track/gusano-funkadelics-maggot-brain-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WJU527RQNyMLuKecjsL8V

Octopus Brains Defy a Long-Held Rule About Why Animals Evolve Intelligence : ScienceAlert
Octopus Brains Defy a Long-Held Rule About Why Animals Evolve Intelligence : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/the-size-of-cephalopod-brains-se…

Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health #nutrition

Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health
Could something as simple as vitamin C help support a healthier aging brain? In a study of more than 2,000 older adults in Japan, researchers found that people with lower vitamin C levels in their blood also tended to have less gray matter and weaker connections in a key brain network involved in memory, attention, and other cognitive functions.

It has belatedly emerged that a 6-year-old girl in China who had a rare genetic disease
died a week after receiving the world's first brain gene-editing treatment.
The researchers released animal test results in the international journal Nature this year ahead of the treatment,
but did not disclose the already conducted clinical trial and the patient's death in the paper.
The international journal Science and the research-ethics outlet Retraction Watch reported…

China conceals child death after first brain base-editing trial, spurring ethics uproar - CHOSUNBIZ
China conceals child death after first brain base-editing trial, spurring ethics uproar Parents paid $860,000 as Shanghai Jiao Tong teams undisclosed base-editing trial ends in a childs death, prompting global ethics scrutiny

Do non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awag242/8728959 "Deprived sensory cortices, contrary to many claims, do not become language regio…

Your Brain Detects Danger Before You Can Think
From Presence and Possibility with Bri Chapman. #leadership #podcast

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit #nutrition

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit
Fish oil supplements successfully delivered omega-3s to the brain, but a two-year study found no meaningful benefits for memory, cognition, or Alzheimer’s-related brain changes. The results challenge the idea that fish oil pills can help prevent Alzheimer’s and shift attention toward overall diet and lifestyle instead.

Your Brain Detects Danger Before You Can Think
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cDXLgy4JM8M

NERVE Attacks: breaking AI-powered brain-computer interfaces #BCI #AI

'How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian': Use AI to explore. Use libraries to verify. Use your brain to evaluate.
(Do people really cite articles they haven't read, as in the opening story?)
https://www.llrx.com/2025/12/how-to-spot-a

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Your Brain Detects Danger Before You Can Think
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cDXLgy4JM8M

The silence around actual progress with the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind is deafening, and its opaqueness is blinding too. #BCI #hype vs #transparency &

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper and living document comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

Can a brain implant restore vision? Elon Musk says yes https://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/tech/416707/can-a-brain-implant-restore-vision-elon-musk-says This is actually a decent news article by not just regurgitating Musk's unsubs…

Your Brain Detects Danger Before You Can Think
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cDXLgy4JM8M

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Scientists discover the brain can rewire itself to truly multitask https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-the-brain-can-rewire-itself-to-truly-multitask/ Implications for sensory substitution? Sensory overload?
Extensive experienc…

Scientists Discover the Brain Can Rewire Itself To Truly Multitask
Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking possible.

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

The reason:
The brain gives possible losses more weight than possible benefits. A past failure can make a new choice feel unsafe after the facts change. Limited time, unclear authority, slow approval, rigid processes, and weak support can also block growth.

(2019, Amazon) My brain implant for bionic vision: the first trial of artificial sight for the blind #BCI

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

For the believers: Towards interstellar brain-computer interfaces #BCI

Project Overview ‹ Towards Interstellar Brain-Computer Interfaces – MIT Media Lab
Currently, we are seeing more and more robotics and AI efforts in space. However, to scale human activity and energy in space, we need humans in space — and we…

Conjecture: Human #qualia are not (so much) linked to relational structures, symmetries, sensorimotor invariants etc within perceptual content, but rather linked to a small set of specific discrete brainwave constellations evoked by the perceptual input. The idea is that the brain supports a small set of brainwave "resonant modes", and perceptual (or even imagined) content thrown at the brain ma…

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Elon Musk's bandwidth argument for Neuralink has a problem: the brain itself https://glitchwire.com/news/elon-musks-bandwidth-argument-for-neuralink-has-a-problem-the-brain-itself/ The 10 bits per second problem (for decision m…

Elon Musk's Bandwidth Argument for Neuralink Has a Problem: The Brain Itself
Musk's latest X post frames Neuralink as the solution to human cognitive bottlenecks. New neuroscience research suggests the limitation isn't the interface, it's the architecture.

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

A burst of "pink noise" may lead to more restorative sleep https://news.mit.edu/2026/pink-noise-burst-may-mean-more-restorative-sleep-0909

Brain computer interfaces boot up multipronged legal issues https://www.afslaw.com/perspectives/news/brain-computer-interfaces-boot-multipronged-legal-issues "BCIs may be implantable or noninvasive", "Can neural data ever …

Brain Computer Interfaces Boot Up Multipronged Legal Issues | ArentFox Schiff
Forget science fiction — the race to connect computers directly to the human brain is already underway, and it is accelerating. In recent months, neurotechnology companies have expanded human clinical trials and attracted substantial investment.

Review of brain-computer interface technology in ophthalmology: Current status, challenges and future directions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667376226000314 Discussing noninvasive BCIs yet not mentioning sensory substitution for vision? Review…

Government strategy is shaping the global brain-computer interface race https://neurotechreports.com/news/government-strategy-is-shaping-the-global-brain-computer-interface-race

Government Strategy Is Shaping the Global Brain-Computer Interface Race   - Neurotech Reports
Three events converged this year to turn brain-computer interfaces from a research curiosity into a subject of government strategy. China moved a product to market, having already built the machinery to pay for it. The U.S. funded a founder. The European Union asked its regulators to study a problem. This is not an accident of timing. It reflects fundamentally different beliefs about what a government should do when a new technology can read, and may soon write to, the human brain.  

A new framework for how the brain compresses our noisy world https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-framework-for-how-the-brain-compresses-our-noisy-world-20260824/ "An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understand…

A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World | Quanta Magazine
An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet.

What if the brain doesn't create consciousness? Christof Koch proposes it might be the fabric of reality itself https://www.sciencealert.com/what-if-the-brain-doesnt-create-consciousness-scientist-proposes-i…

What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself
For decades, neuroscientists have searched the brain for the biological basis of consciousness, assuming our thoughts, emotions, and subjective experiences emerge from networks of neurons.

Stanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brain https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/stanford-researchers-discover-a-language-specific-network-hidden-in-the-human-brain/

Stanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brain
The brain language network can be mapped from fMRI activity even while people rest or perform tasks unrelated to language.

What progress would be made if all consciousness researchers started working on voluntary mental imagery? A blind person does not need a brain implant to see if visual content is conveyed via other means and then visualized. Visual access and experience.

1 big thing: Brain implants stoke U.S.-China rivalry #BCI

🧠 Brain implant rivalry

(YouTube, Spanish) UMHTV – Recuperación inesperada de la visión de una persona ciega mediante microestimulación cerebral (Unexpected recovery of vision in a blind person through brain microstimulation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLJBxeLo20

A map of the imagined: topographic principles of sensory simulation in the human parietal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.03.742540v1 "visual imagery preferentially manifested in posterior regions, auditory imagery in ventral regions" of le…

A Map of the Imagined: Topographic Principles of Sensory Simulation in the Human Parietal Cortex
The cerebral cortex forms a structured landscape in which the location of brain regions shapes their cognitive functions. Based on this cognitive topography, brain regions are not isolated modules but embedded within a macroscale terrain where both cortical geometry and connectivity jointly shape cognition. If cortical locus does modulate cognition, then even internally generated processes (e.g., imagery) might obey topographical constraints. This predicts a neurofunctional arrangement in which…

Ethical considerations for implantable human brain–computer interfaces #BCI

Ethical considerations for implantable human brain–computer interfaces - Nature Neuroscience
Implanted brain–computer interfaces hold great promise for restoring communication and other functions and for revealing new aspects of human brain physiology. Yet as the number of implantations in humans expands, ethical clarity must keep pace with technical ambition. We propose that this should involve distinguishing research participation from patient care, ensuring long-term support for study participants, ensuring that research participants do not bear disproportionate risks for benefits…

China clears brain-computer interfaces for commercial use: Is it time for a global coalition? https://thedebrief.org/china-clears-brain-computer-interfaces-for-commercial-use-is-it-time-for-a-global-coalition/

China Clears Brain-Computer Interfaces for Commercial Use: Is It Time for a Global Coalition?
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/neural-bypass-brain-implant-paralysed-man-feed-himself-drink-from-cup "Keith Thomas can move ar…

Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup
Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of training

Postdoc position at the University of Pittsburgh related to visual cortical prostheses (brain implants for restoring vision) https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external_pd/jobdetail.ftl?job=26005332 via @…

A computer model predicted which human brain implant channels would fail #invasive

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke #BCI

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke
Implantable brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) with single-neuron resolution are showing great promise for restoring mobility and communication in individuals with spinal cord injury or motor neuron disease. Stroke is the most common cause of acquired brain injury and a major contributor to long-term disability, making chronic stroke a highly relevant indication for iBCIs. However, whether stable intracortical recordings can be obtained from the structurally lesioned human brain is unknown. We r…

(LinkedIn) Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through August 2026) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498061682275950592/

#implantable #invasive #bci #neurotech | Peter Meijer
Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through August 2026), according to ChatGPT https://lnkd.in/erCDJkMT Still zero reported Neuralink Blindsight brain implants for restoring vision in blind humans https://lnkd.in/e5ge8iZU #implantable #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech

(LinkedIn) According to some, China takes global lead in regulated brain-computer interfaces, speeding US medtech's regulatory race https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/china-takes-global-lead-regulated-brain-computer-interfaces-panda-yu-agy…

China Takes Global Lead in Regulated Brain-Computer Interfaces, Speeding U.S. Medtech’s Regulatory Race
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