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Brain implants to restore sight, like Neuralink’s Blindsight, face a fundamental problem − more pixels don’t ensure better vision

  • Written by Ione Fine, Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
imageHuman vision can't be fully reproduced with ones and zeros.seamartini/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately may exceed normal human...

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