By now you may have seen the simple drawings that a quadriplegic – one of the three people in the world equipped with Neuralink – was able to create simply by thinking. Neuralink is an implant about the size of a coin with wires that connect to about a thousand electrodes in the brain.  I am the son of a man who spent the last 17 years of his life paralyzed from the neck down, so I can imagine how wheelchair-bound people around the world must be turning their heads towards these developments with a tender hope.

Here is the transcript (with hyperlinks) for my video, The Three Illusions of Self.