The Potential Future of the Synthetic mind

Within the past several decades, brain implants have been a technological innovation that had augmented the functionality of the mind, as well as provide adequate prosthesis for people with neurological conditions that deviated from the norm. Such an example includes an augmentation to the memory capacity of the hippocampus by inputting the incoming information in the form of sodium-potassium action potentials (electrical signals) in neurons into a capacitor or memory bank, and then the device releases an output electrical signal that transfers to adjacent neurons. Among the biggest challenges facing brain implants such as these are to make the devices themselves more compartmentalized and miniature as to make their presence in the brain more convenient and less intrusive (Neuro-Modulation 2.0: New Developments in Brain Implants, Super Soldiers and the Treatment of Chronic Disease).