Mood Boosting Brain Implants
Daily Star|October 09, 2023
Boffin predicts tech will alter our emotions
JERRY LAWTON
Mood Boosting Brain Implants

PEOPLE will soon be able to choose their emotions using Blade Runner-style brain implants, according to an Elon Musk visionary.

Neuroscientist Philip Sabes, who founded Neuralink with the SpaceX, Twitter and Tesla billionaire, said devices similar to sci-fi writer Philip K Dick's Penfield mood organ are on the way.

In his novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - which the 1982 movie Blade Runner is based on people used the device to choose moods ranging from "cheerful" to "selfaccusatory depression".

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