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$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

20-Oct-2016

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The company, Kernel, was launched earlier this year by entrepreneur Bryan Johnson.

The first experiments planned will be on memory.

The first super-humans are those who have deficits to start with.

Johnson: “You could build a prosthetic for the hippocampus that would help restore the circuitry, and restore memory”

Plan to develop this prosthesis to enhance memory provide a cognitive boost.

COMMENT: grand plans but very early days – only just starting to record brain activity

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Bryan Johnson

Founder and CEO of Kernel and Blueprint

Kernel

Neuroscience startup

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Brain Interface