A Hardware Update for the Human Brain

Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: Programmable debuggable machines... June 5 2017 7:00 a.m. ET EMILY BORGHARD has a computer inside her skull but you wouldnt know it to look at her. A small bump behind her left ear the only external evidence of her implant is partially covered by a tuft of hair thats still growing in from the last time she had the batteries changed. Before Borghard received a brain implant she was having as many as 400 spikes of seizure-like activity a day along with multiple seizures. This unrelenting storm of abnormal neural activity turned her teenage years into a semiconscious nightmare. She couldnt drive a car attend classes or be left alone for more than half an hour. People were finding me on the floor finding me walking around the small college town we were living in confused and not knowing what was going on she says. In 2011 at the age of 19 Borghard underwent a radical surgical procedure for drug-resistant epilepsy. Surgeons cut into her skull and implanted a small self-contained computer that resembles a Zippo lighter in the hippocampus of her brain. The implant uses a pair of long hair-thin electrodes to listen for irregular neural activity which
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