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From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak

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From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

Aug 20
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

Aug 20
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Max Hodak, co-founder and CEO of Science Corporation, joins Sarah Guo to discuss the future of vision, brain-computer interfaces, and the human experience. Max explains how Science’s PRIMA retinal implant could restore functional vision for people who have...

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This conversation examines how neuroscience and engineering could restore lost abilities while challenging assumptions about the brain, consciousness, and what it means to remain human.
00:00
Vision can be restored through neural pathways
01:03
Neuroscience can restore sight and reshape human health.
01:58
PRIMA turns projected images into functional vision
05:39
Neural devices could restore what medicine cannot
08:20
Restored vision is only the beginning.
09:03
Retinal implants can restore functional vision
14:04
Neural integration could radically transform medicine.
15:01
Identity may not survive a copied mind
16:47
Continuity may matter more than preserving identity
19:04
Intelligence may transcend its physical substrate
21:22
Restoring vision could become a major business.
23:54
The brain is the central computational system
27:02
Science aims to reduce human fragility
28:15
Biotechnology could redefine what it means to be human
29:23
BCIs may restore senses and enable substrate independence

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Cold Open Trailer
00:00
Max Hodak Introduction
00:45
Science Company Overview and Origin
01:03
A Revolutionary Solve for Blindness
01:57
Scope of Timeline and Engineer Cost
05:38
Clinic Trial Process
08:20
The Response from Clinicians
09:01
Broader Biotech Landscape
11:31
Max’s Interests in Biotech Discovery
14:59
The Study of Consciousness
16:45
Investments in Brain Computer Interface
19:04
Fertile Ways to Study Neuroscience
21:21
Biotech Expansion for Science Corporation
23:54
What Success Looks Like in Neuroscience and Tech
26:59
Goals Within Human Preservation vs. Adaptation
28:14
Conclusion
29:22

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Max Hodak: The brain, very literally, very clearly, plainly, is a computer. You can solve computational problems by arranging matter in a certain way. And then, like, taking your hands off and pressing go. We talk about being a brain in a vat. That's what ...