Cope all you want but shit like this is driven by the same pointless morose curiosity as Mengele/731.

>>16728167 (OP)
As someone that took a Brain Machine Interfaces class as an elective in college. No, there are in fact legitimate medical reasons to stab tissue with electrodes.

>>16728392
Most evil things have some sales pitch pretext of utility/benefit.
That is TEMPTATION.
How much friction is there to get approval/consent to put them in people vs insects?
This will obviously be used way more for creepy rc spy bugs than helping people.

>>16728392
>As someone that took a Brain Machine Interfaces class as an elective in college
dude, as someone who teaches animal phys, you should have learned how to stab tissue with electrodes as a req course.
>medical reasons
it's a beetle hooked up to a microcontroller

>>16728699
>This will obviously be used way more for creepy rc spy bugs than helping people.
this shit can be done by a 14 yearold with enough free time

>>16728167 (OP)

I'm under the general impression the only way we'll ever get cybernetic, or brain-machine-interfaces, is if we torture bugs and monkeys and install microchips in their brains first. I agree it isn't very "sporting"; this is how the sausage is made though.