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Top Tech Voices Podcast S2 E3: Neuro-Tech and Brain Interfaces

JoRatcliffe

Episode Three of Top Tech Voices is here and it’s all about neuro-tech with Anil Seth - professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience. 

Grab a coffee, tea, beverage of your choice, and watch/listen in on your preferred platform to a conversation exploring: 

  • Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) - the developments realistically around the corner, and what is just science fiction (for now, at least!) 
  • How to train your brain to improve your mindfulness and attention span 
  • The idea that perhaps everything we experience is a controlled hallucination… 

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  • I genuinely loved this episode but let me start with the thing that got me more than anything else. The moment Prof. Seth mentions they did a study with 40,000 people just to figure out whether we all see colours the same way. 40,000 people. For a question I would have just shrugged off with "who knows"Sweat smile. That quietly blew my mind more than all the sci fi brain implant stuff honestly.Open mouth

    Because it made me think about every argument I have ever had where I was absolutely certain the other person was just being stubborn. What if they were genuinely seeing something different and had no way to explain it, same as I had no way to explain it to them.

    Also I feel like nobody is talking about the mental monoculture point he sneaks in near the end. The idea that people might literally have to train themselves to think in a specific way just to make BCI technology work, and only people who can afford the expensive version get to keep thinking however they want. That one has been sitting with me all day.Anguished

    Here's my feedback on this podcast,

    1.The meditation and attention stuff kept getting touched on and then dropped and I kept wishing it would go somewhere. There is clearly so much there. I would love a whole episode on just that, maybe with someone who specifically studies the neuroscience of meditation.

    2.The ethics side of BCIs also felt like it needed way more room. I could see Prof. Seth had so much more to say about neural bycatch and privacy and mental monoculture but because there was so much ground to cover it all got a bit rushed.

    3.One small format thing I noticed. There were a few moments where four or five questions got asked at once and some really interesting threads like the free will discussion and the analog brain point at the end felt like they were just getting good when the topic switched. I would personally love to see each idea get more space to breathe.

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    veluv01 said:
    3.One small format thing I noticed. There were a few moments where four or five questions got asked at once and some really interesting threads like the free will discussion and the analog brain point at the end felt like they were just getting good when the topic switched. I would personally love to see each idea get more space to breathe.

    fully agree, topics switched too often.

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  • in reply to veluv01
    veluv01 said:
    3.One small format thing I noticed. There were a few moments where four or five questions got asked at once and some really interesting threads like the free will discussion and the analog brain point at the end felt like they were just getting good when the topic switched. I would personally love to see each idea get more space to breathe.

    fully agree, topics switched too often.

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