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Arbaugh, the first human to receive Neuralink’s brain-computer interface implant.
Photographer: John Francis Peters for Bloomberg Businessweek
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Neuralink’s First Patient: ‘It Blows My Mind So Much’
For the first time, Noland Arbaugh explains how Elon Musk’s brain implant, which allows him to control a computer with his thoughts, has changed his life.
Noland Arbaugh still doesn’t quite know what happened. He doesn’t know many of the key details about how his life took such a drastic and now extraordinary turn. How he became Noland Arbaugh, celebrity cyborg.