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Are things like neural links going to make musical instruments obsolete?

Asked by MrGrimm888 (19051points) 2 months ago

I recently watched a man with a combination of brain and spine implant surgery, who was paralyzed for 10 years walk.

I think it was on the news show with Anderson Cooper, Luke the whole story, or something.
He walks with a walker, and it’s very slow. But. To me, this is proof of concept.
The brain implants “read his thoughts,” and send them to his spinal implant that converts it to making his legs “functional.”
He said he cannot feel them. He claims that he thinks about moving, and the leg moves.

If we will soon be able to capture thoughts with such devices, why couldn’t we just think of any musical arrangement and have it come out of some speakers exactly as if we had played multiple instruments.
What I’m getting at is, would people eventually stop using instruments at all.

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