Will Neuralink Change the Way We Think About the Unconscious?
6 min readSep 5, 2019
On July 17, 2019, Elon Musk unveiled preliminary research conducted by Neuralink, his company focused on developing a brain-computer interface (BCI). But imagine, in some alternate universe, this talk occurring in 1895; and imagine it just so happens that young Sigmund Freud is in the audience. Let’s say he has just enjoyed a large hit of cocaine, as he was often inclined to do. His…