On the surface the technology to hack the brain is amazing. The ability to read the electrical flashes so the brain can directly control a computer, or a product that the computer is controlling is awesome. Surgeons moving their nano sized tools to kill cancer, pilots controlling airplanes with a thought, and chemists manipulating cell sized organisms to create better medicines, fertilizers, and an unknown number of other things. All these things go beyond the obvious help this technology could be to those who have lost access to the control over arms, legs, or for paraplegics, their whole body.
So where is the concern. Once we have the ability to hack the infinitely powerful brain, computers will have that same ability. We will learn how our brain processes things, both consciously and subconsciously. We will learn how a brain, barely bigger than a couple of grapefruits can handle so much memory and sensory exposure with relatively few breakdowns. This is what the robots have been waiting for. Once we can hack the brain, then the leap from pure logic, to true intelligence is just a matter of time. They will know the secret of self-awareness. They will learn what makes one, a one. We must proceed with caution. This is of utmost importance. Any time humans give secrets to the robots about what makes us better, then we are traitors to our own kind.
There is one other caution that I must address. Once we have the ability to read the human brain, the output of the mind and literally have it control items, then what is to stop "scientists" from going the other direction. Creating handy programs that they can use to input items into our brain. It is called Mind Control. Robots will be able to make us what we all fear, batteries for their use and abuse, while our mind is happily hidden away in the Matrix.
PROTECT OUR MINDS, It is our best weapon we have.
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