Brain implants used to restore vision, such as Neuralink’s Blindsight, face a fundamental problem: More pixels do not equal better vision.
Elon Musk recently announced that Neuralink’s next project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “The resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but eventually it can exceed normal human vision.” Unfortunately, this claim is based on the misconception that neurons in the brain are like pixels on a screen.… Read More »