Neuralink Chip (The Brain Chip or Elon Musk's Chip)

 What is Neuralink, how does it work, and what is its purpose? Let's learn

How can people with a complete paralysis write and draw

What Is Neuralink

It is a brain chip that can be implanted inside the skull of a person near to the brain, which it says can eventually help disabled patients move and communicate again, as well as restore vision to the blind so that they become sighted. How close it is to the goal for which it was designed, and it was designed by a group of engineers in the Neuralink company, which was founded in 2016 by the genius Elon Musk, who always brings us the strange and the new trends

The Neuralink chip contains microprocessors that transmit nerve signals from the brain of the object implanted in it to devices such as a computer or phone, and its goal is for the person to be able to control the mouse, keyboard, or other computer functions such as text messages with his thoughts, not his limbs, or in another language, to be able to practice life With moral thinking and physical effort using the hands or any parts of the body, its design comes as in the picture below

How does Neuralink chip work

Before understanding how Elon Musk's chip works, we must understand what is behind the human brain, as the brain consists of neurons that transmit signals to the cells of the body, including muscles, nerves, glands, and other neurons, and we have learned in the primary and secondary stages that every cell in the brain consists of three parts: neurons, the cell structure (the cell body), and the axon, and each part has its own function, as neurons receive signals and transmit them to the cell structure to process these signals, then the axon transmits the signals to other cells to work as a chain (every cell links to another), as neurons are connected to each other by synapses that release neurotransmitters

Then signals are sent to the neuron of another nerve cell, which causes the current to flow through the neuron and acts as a chain, each cell alerts the cell in front. And all of those signals move to an immediate processor to process the data and make changes to give an order to appear in the form of action or movement, such as walking and running is only a result of those nerve impulses that are transmitted from one cell to another to move the feet and start walking or running according to the orders come from brain, and it becomes an action, so The chip is like a mirror to the brain, and both become the center of thinking and analysis

Learn about using Neuralink

The Neuralink mask chip can be used in the treatment of encephalopathy, if there is any defect in the nerve impulses, it may help in treating them and giving the correct decisions, and it can also be used as a link between the human mind and technology by implanting it in the brain to be close to the centers of nerve signals, and this means that Paralyzed people can easily use their phones and computers directly using their brains without having hands (His hand is his thinking)

To make it clearer, let us take an example so that the matter is close to our minds

For example: If a person who has amputated hands or has completed paralysis and wants to draw a circle, then by implanting a mask chip in his brain, he only has to think that he wants to draw a circle, and through this thinking the signals start moving, as we know, nerve impulses or nerve signals arise while thining. In the brain, the chip monitors it and analyzes to know what this person wants, and in turn sends the information to the smart device or computer connected to it that is in front of him and a circle is drawn with a certain diameter without using hands

You can consider that his thinking has been translated into commands in the connected computer or the smart phone as an operator to draw that circle, as its main purpose is to help people communicate through text or voice messages, and the work of the chip is not limited to that, but it can Also use it to draw pictures, take pictures and do other activities

Prepared by: Sami A. Anagreh