Perspective: Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys are not just about proving a technological concept, but convey a potentially dangerous worldview.
Seemingly undaunted by these accusations, Musk persists in promoting his company’s Neuralink device through live events and videos in which test animals are put on display to demonstrate the technology’s effectiveness and safety. The most dramatic video features a 9-year-old macaque named Pagerplays down the broader implications of a brain-computer interface, instead choosing to focus on its laudable efforts to improve access for paraplegic patients.
. In this interview, Calhoun walked viewers through one of his enormous “rat city” experiments to demonstrate his breakthrough concept of the “behavioral sink” — a term Calhoun coined for what he described as “deviant” behavior in rats living in overcrowded conditions, which he listed as homosexuality, hypersexuality, hypermasculinity, passivity, cannibalism and a breakdown of maternal care.
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