Non-invasive BCI
Talks about BCIs (brain computer interfaces) naturally skeeve us out because we imagine a doctor drilling a hole in our skull and inserting a silicon chip. What if it weren’t silicon?
I was reading about how AGI would design new kinds of hardware to evolve itself into ASI, and not only does it find the limits of silicon (via. cubic liquid-cooled chips), but it pioneers other forms of computing. Not just quantum computing, but photon-based motherboards and “neuro-morphic chips” (wetware). I need to wrap my head around this more, but imagine biological neurons that are able to store, send, and receive information, reliably and efficiently.
In the future, you might be able to have a BCI without having any metal in your head. It could be something like a small piece of tissue (which interfaces with your own brain matter), and maybe it includes a single qubit chip, which serves as a “quantum wifi” connection to a remote super-intelligence, giving you instant access to alien processing.
I have no expertise here, so this is basically all a hallucination, but I just imagine that maybe BCIs won’t involve that much-feared surgery. Maybe you take a pill that enables a neuro-morphic chip to situate itself in your brain, and the only side effect is you piss silver once (with no side effects).
The point of this thought experiment is to remove the installation process from your calculation on if you’d get a BCI. It changes the question: Would you use technology to permanently alter your consciousness in an extreme way? Would you install an on/off switch that gives you on-demand access to the infinity-brain effect of an LSD trip?