/lit/ - Literature

From a functionalist perspective any material that is functionally homologous to neural tissue should be integrable with the substrate. The brain is a connective system, and neurons do not know what they are communicating with, but that it "completes the circuit" and receives a reciprocal handshake. Neuroprosthetics can therefore be interposed between the signal chains, relay them, and therefore close the loop.

There's nothing mysterious about it from a mechanical standpoint. It only gets confusing if you add consciousness. Seeing that everything we do is unconscious anyway and "abstracted away" from consciousness, there's nothing wrong in principle with the idea.

Pic related really gets into the nitty gritty of cognitive extendability and substantiates what I have said here.