Neuralink Expands to 12 Trial Participants; Transhumanism Rhetoric Alarms BCI Competitors

STAT News 2026-01-05 Transhumanism United States/Canada Source

Neuralink reports 12 implanted patients with 15,000+ hours of usage. Company leadership openly discusses machine-human symbiosis and healthy human implantation, diverging sharply from its clinical paralysis/ALS mission. First international implants performed in Canada.

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End-Times Mingling With the Seed of Men (Daniel 2:43) unfulfilled

Tangential but thematic: merging human cognition with machine intelligence represents another form of "mingling" — not genetic but neurological. The iron (machine) mixed with clay (flesh) metaphor maps to brain-computer interfaces. Musk's stated goal is human-AI "symbiosis," which is integration of fundamentally different substrates.