The jellyfish’s nerve net allowed it to collect important information from the world around it-like where there were objects, predators, or food-and pass that information along, through a big game of telephone, to all parts of its body.
The jellyfish was the first animal to figure out that nerves were an obvious thing to make sure you had, and it had the world’s first nervous system-a nerve net. So you just had to kind of exist and wait there until you died. Without nerves, you can’t move, or think, or process information of any kind. The problem is that no one had any nerves. So wipe your brain clean of what it thinks it knows about itself and its future, put on soft clothes, and let’s jump into the vortex.Ħ00 million years ago, no one really did anything, ever. I feel like I took a time machine to the future, and I’m here to tell you that it’s even weirder than we expect.īut before I can bring you in the time machine to show you what I found, we need to get in our zoom machine-because as I learned the hard way, Elon’s wizard hat plans cannot be properly understood until your head’s in the right place. The mind-bending bigness of Neuralink’s mission, combined with the labyrinth of impossible complexity that is the human brain, made this the hardest set of concepts yet to fully wrap my head around-but it also made it the most exhilarating when, with enough time spent zoomed on both ends, it all finally clicked. The other two companies aim to redefine what future humans will do-Neuralink wants to redefine what future humans will be. Not only is Elon’s new venture-Neuralink-the same type of deal, but six weeks after first learning about the company, I’m convinced that it somehow manages to eclipse Tesla and SpaceX in both the boldness of its engineering undertaking and the grandeur of its mission. In on a snapshot of the world right now, out on the big story of how we got to this moment and what our far future could look like. In, on the technical challenges facing the engineers, out on the existential challenges facing our species. When I wrote about Tesla and SpaceX, I learned that you can only fully wrap your head around certain companies by zooming both way, way in and way, way out. But after learning about the new company Elon Musk was starting, I’ve come to realize that that’s exactly what he’s trying to do. Okay maybe that’s not exactly how it happened, and maybe those weren’t his exact words. You can buy it here.Īnd here’s a G-rated version of the post, appropriate for all ages.
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