Neuralink Received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA for Blindsight

The Breakthrough Devices Program [1] is just a special review program. Designation just means you get to go through a non-standard approval process because your technology is too different to be well-served by the normal review process.<p>It is not a endorsement or approval of the technology. It is basically just approval to get faster responses from the FDA.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;how-study-and-market-your-device&#x2F;breakthrough-devices-program" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;how-study-and-market-you...</a>

Any new patents regarding the avoidance of implant neural scaring?

Naming alone, this is complicated.<p>- It could be just what it says on the tin &quot;letting the blind see&quot;.<p>- It could be a reference to the real neurological condition where one can in fact see but the conscious mind is convinced they cannot.<p>- It could be a reference to the novel &quot;Blindsight&quot; by Peter Watts, which is relevant to the above neurological condition but is really about just how bad humans are at perceiving the world around them and being unreliable narrators.<p>I realized back when he started naming the spaceships, Musk has read many of the novels I have, but seems to have taken radically different lessons. The potential misinterpretations of &quot;Blindsight&quot; are the utility of sociopathy in society and acceptability of manipulation to manage unreliable humans.