Nick Wray
Hello World!
My name Nick Wray and I am P8 (Telepath8) in the Neuralink trials!
It has been such an honour and privilege to be a pioneer in the world of cybernetic enhancement.
To be able to create again is life changing. I hope to be one of the first people to hold my own with AI. It’s still faster than me, for now, but one day soon I may be collaborating with it, or creating with it in ways previously unimagined.
“Do not try to bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon.”
Now replace spoon with trackpad, gamepad, or mouse and here we are! Since the first time I read Johnny Mnemonic and Neuromancer by William Gibson, BCI has been the dream. After decades of fantasy, I’m actually a Console Cowboy the likes of Henry Case.
This is both fantastic and profound. In becoming a member of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, I have the opportunities to further research into finding and fine tuning possible solutions to this age old malady AND to further research on human-machine symbiosis and working beyond the limitations of my physical body.
On the very first day using my BCI, I was afforded a glimpse, the slightest whiff, of the capabilities I will achieve with practice and it is so far beyond anything I could have dreamt of as an able bodied individual. It’s not lost on me that without ALS, I would never have been a candidate for this study.
I sincerely believe that if ALS is the price of admission to an opportunity of this magnitude, you pay it; gladly, willingly, and without hesitation. I would do it all again to end up right where I am, right where I’m supposed to be.
