Imagine a future where Neuralink doesn’t just let you type emails with your thoughts or move a cursor across a screen – it hacks your mind as radically as DMT.

For the uninitiated, DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) is one of the most powerful psychedelics known, catapulting users into fractal universes of intense colour, geometric complexity, and encounters with entities beyond language. Neuroscientists studying DMT note that it collapses the brain’s usual networks into a state of global hyperconnectivity. Brain regions that normally keep to themselves suddenly chatter wildly with others. Hierarchies dissolve. The number of states your brain can access – its entropy – skyrockets.

What results is a total override of everyday reality.

Now imagine Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, achieving something similar – not through a smoked compound, but via electrical stimulation or software updates. Instead of controlling a robotic arm, your Neuralink implant injects perceptual chaos or bliss, collapsing and rewiring your mental architecture on demand.

Neuralink today is rudimentary: ultra-thin threads implanted in the motor cortex translate neural activity into commands to control external devices. Its first human implant allowed a paralysed man to move a cursor with his thoughts. For now, hacking the mind remains science fiction.........

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