Last March, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink demonstrated the first patient who had a chip “embedded” – the test subject turned out to be Noland Arbo, a 29-year-old paralyzed man who initially underwent “improvements.”
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About the fact that after the recent update of the software component of the neurochip, which was released 100 days after implantation of the device, later everything did not go as planned, writes “NBN”, referring to report posted on the official Neuralink page.
As it became known, certain electrodes of the neurochip lost contact with the patient’s brain, which caused a slowdown in pulse readings—they tried to solve the difficulties programmatically by releasing an update for the “device.” However, other electrodes that were not removed from the cortex, which remained in contact with the brain, were under additional stress.
Neuralink did not report why the chip electrodes were partially removed, but  Some experts are confident that the incident could have been caused by involuntary movement of the brain inside the skull, due to “unrest” of the cerebrospinal fluid, which acts as a “support”, that is, compensating for shocks and sudden movements. Thus, the neurochip can lose contact with the brain even if the head is tilted incorrectly.
If we compare with animals that received identical implants, we can understand that primates did not have such problems, since their brains less, and does not have large amplitudes of movement in the skull.
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