Suzanne Smalley reports:
Neurobiologist Rafael Yuste had what he calls his “Oppenheimer moment” a decade ago after he learned that he could take over the minds of mice by turning on certain neurons in their brains with a laser.
While initially excited about how the discovery might help schizophrenics suffering hallucinations, Yuste’s euphoria dissipated once the breakthrough’s serious implications for humans — whose neural data could one day be manipulated in the same way — became clear to him.
Neural data is already being harvested from humans — much of it from gamers and meditation practitioners — and sold to third parties, Yuste said in an interview.
Read more at The Record.