Can We Build New Senses?
BCI company pursues synthetic senses and substrate independence, not AI communication shortcuts
“Talking or writing is thinking. I think this idea that there's the stuff that's just this kind of pre-formed in your brain that if you could access it through BCI, it would be faster is probably not the case.”
A BCI researcher argues that pre-linguistic 'latent' thought is largely illusory — articulation is itself part of thinking, not merely its output — making brain-to-AI shortcut interfaces less valuable than assumed. Their company instead focuses on generating synthetic vision and hearing, and achieving substrate independence. The insight challenges a core premise of many BCI startups but has limited direct AI industry signal.