GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers

In a previous post, I discussed the anatomy and physiology of remote sensing and wearable systems. It has an afferent, central, efferent, neuromuscular and end organ component. Unfortunately, given the evolving nature of the healthcare IT ecosystem and remote sensing in particular, we still don’t know what the HIT cyberbrain should look like, how it should work or how it should develop or evolve. In other words, we need more research about healthcare analytics processing and signaling systems and how they should develop from fertilization to birth i.e.remote sensing embryology.

The cyberbrain has been fertilized by the minds of technopreneurs and is developing quickly. Earlier this month, Elon Musk took the stage in a science museum in San Francisco and sketched out a bold vision of connecting a human brain to a computer.

The presentation was one of the first public unveilings of the technology behind his brain-machine interface (BMI) company Neuralink, which is trying to use robotically implanted super thin flexible “threads” in the brain to allow individuals to control computers and smartphones with their mind. An unpublished non-peer reviewed white paper credited to Musk and Neuralink lays out more of the technical details behind the technology. Others are giving chase.

Here is the research agenda:

1. What is the present state of central processing systems?

2. How did they evolve?

3. What are the evironmental and genetic factors that are at play?

4. Which ones work and which ones don’t

5. What are the causes of abnormal HIT brains?

6. Are their ways we can modify or minimize HIT dysgenetic systems?

7. What kinds of parents should produce these children and what should be their genetic make up?

8. Is there a way to do genetic testing to detect early abnormalities?

9. Should we allow HIT systems abortion and eugenics?

10. Should we pass laws and regulations protecting the HIT fetus against toxic influences?

11. What will be the unintended consequences of brain-computer driven interfaced?

12. How do we prevent brain hacking and how do we overcome the other IoMT challenges?

Intelliwebs are evolving organic interfaces between man and machine and will eventually be the central nervous system of remote sensing and the internet of things.

HIT brains are evolving every day. Our present understanding of them is rudimentary and it will take a lot more research and experimention before we understand how the HIT brain develops, evolves and functions. Until then, remote sensing and wearable embryology should be a required course.

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