Hope @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social find this interesting too.

The field just got even more bizzare! This is so similar to how gene therapy in its early days wants to be regulated like an antibody based therapy but didn’t want to call itself that. History repeats itself, again!

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By the definition and taxonomy proposed, proven therapeutic technologies like Magnus Medical ‘s #TMS is not a BCI? So what is it? That technology doesn’t read brain activity but is a machine/computer that causes therapeutic benefit.
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But, I don’t see answer to the core question : What isn’t a #BCI? There just seems to more names to complicate matters than simplify things.
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