Andrew Huberman· PhD
so I think of that as the world of visual augmentation and it starts to get interesting if the different cell types are behaving in an independent way and when they transmit visual information to the brain now how are we going to figure that out well we need a device that can stimulate the different cells independently and then study that to see whether people can and can do this kind of thing right what's that device the artificial retina the same implant I'm telling you about that can restore Vision to people because it's an electronic device that can up in the activity in the different cell types that same device is what we can use as a research instrument to understand if the different pathways are parallel if the signals interact with one another and explore how the brain receives that information and then we can use that to explore can we augment vision and allow allow ourselves to have new visual Sensations that we don't even know what that would look like we we we don't even understand what it would look like to us to see those Sensations but it might be able to deliver lots of information to our brain and if we can do all those those things then we can take that same set of tools and Engineering Technologies into the brain to access different cell types as well