From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
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From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak

B2中高级2026年8月20日31分钟

Max Hodak, co-founder and CEO of Science.xyz, 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 lost their sight, and why treating the brain as a computational system could unlock new approaches to medicine. They explore the broader potential of neural devices, from restoring lost capabilities to expanding human potential, as well as deeper questions around identity, consciousness, and whether the human experience can persist as our biological hardware changes. Max also sh...

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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.

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That's what the skull is. Like the brain is connected to the environment through a small number of wires, the cranial and spinal nerves, these little cables that carry your interaction with the world. If you can get the visual signal, auditory signal, balance, motor,

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in and out of the brain, that isn't end in itself. That is the central object. The retinal prosthesis right now, I think, is a great proof of concept that we're on the right track. Nobody had previously ever been able to restore a form vision image in the mind's eye of a blind patient in this way.

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