Comment by all2

> So, if the core insight is "just add more neurons and treat it like hardware expansion," then the real challenge is being understated by several orders of complexity.

I wouldn't say it's an insight as it is an ah-ha moment I had. And yes, I hand-waved a bunch of stuff.

> The idea that the "revolution" is a hardware layer that just plugs into the brain and expands it with new neurons assumes a very naive model of how neural integration works. Brains don’t just recognize foreign neurons like USB devices. Synaptic plasticity, metabolic compatibility, glial interactions, all of that matters a lot more than signal translation.

We don't have hardware like this. Our hardware is 'fixed' once its burned to silicon. I think you're pointing in the direction I was trying to express; that the bionic hardware necessarily will act like a biological system, at least near enough that whatever it is 'plugged into' cannot tell the difference.

> Also, calling it a "data layer" glosses over the fact that neurons don't pass around clean, structured data. There’s no JSON over axons, information in the brain is messy, noisy, and deeply contextual—less like a protocol stack, more like a wet, self-rewriting spaghetti code.

I know, I know. This is just me trying to apply what I do understand to something I know little to nothing about.