$273Billion Man Elon Musk Reveals How His Tech Could Produce a Real-Life Video Game Defying Death – “It Could Hurt, I Suppose”

Published 08/05/2022, 10:10 AM EDT

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Apart from his quirky statements at times, Elon Musk is a man of impeccable intelligence. He is the face of several successful entrepreneurial ventures. He is also the co-founder of a promising company with strong ideation involving biological neurons, Neuralink. In fact, Musk recently revealed some supernatural things that his product of neuro-engineering can do!

Neuralink, as its name suggests, addresses an important neurobiological concept. It is essentially a brain chip that can be implanted into the human brain. As per official claims, Neuralink can solve a lot of neuro-medical dilemmas, namely paralysis, stroke, motor degenerative diseases, and other neurological disorders.

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If Neuralink manages to evolve further, it could even prove to be a breakthrough for Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Epilepsy, and more advanced diagnoses. In addition, Musk recently proclaimed that Neuralink can even create hyper-realistic video games, letting players experience situations like death in a whole new way!

Elon Musk shares an interesting video game concept involving Neuralink

While talking about dog and human cloning in a podcast, Elon Musk shared a theory about Neuralink. If Neuralink could record memories and feelings, it could essentially provide clones with the same feelings and memories as the original subject. Moreover, the Tesla CEO also shared the possibility to be able to recreate a video game that lets players feel everything in it, in reality.

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Elon Musk also explained how human feelings and actions are all electrical signals, involving the neurons of their nervous systems. When Steiny, a member of the Full Send Podcast team, asked him whether the player would feel death in a video game as in real life, Musk had another interesting theory alongside a calm reply, “Not necessarily”. This time, it was about defying death in video games and beyond!

Musk gives an interesting explanation of death

“What is death?” Musk questioned and went on to explain it himself. “Death is the loss of information… Let’s say like if you got disintegrated but then got reintegrated immediately with no pain or anything, did you die? Well, not really. Because you are still continuing. So, like you know we’re in a video game… you die a lot in video games, but then you just come back to a saved game state.” 

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Elon Musk continued to explain his concept, saying that death is just a loss of information regarding an individual. “And, if you no longer have loss of information with that individual, death has no meaning. I mean, it could hurt I suppose,” he explained. You can watch the time-stamped video below!

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Well, a Neuralink-powered video game is obviously not happening any time soon. The company is currently striving to receive clearance from the FDA and start clinical trials on humans. So, the focus will be on the brain chip’s main motive: medical sciences!

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Sharmila Ganguly is an Esports author at EssentiallySports. After completing her Bachelor's degree in engineering, she pursued her love for writing and most importantly, video games. All kinds of video games intrigue her, but her love for shooter video games like Valorant knows no bounds.
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