A human-machine intelligence merger is a proposed hybrid combining human biological functions with machine components. Brain-computer interfaces offer a narrower, demonstrated medical application: restoring sensory feedback through a robotic limb. section 9.3
Sensory feedback through a robot arm
Electrodes implanted in a patient’s sensory cortex received signals from a robot arm, enabling tactile sensations in a paralyzed hand while bypassing a damaged spinal cord. section 9.3
This rehabilitation advance does not demonstrate mind uploading or synthetic humans. The brain remains poorly understood, and comparisons between AI neural networks and biological neurons can mislead; claims of imminent human-machine hybrids should be treated cautiously. section 9.3
