Perhaps I should put the title as “with Neuralink, is education skill needed”.
In August 2020, Neuralink published an experiment of Neuralink application, which plugged a link/chip into a pig’s brain. With that link the pig could connect with computers, people could better understand the pig’s mind. There is a Youtube link introducing the experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUWDLKAF1M&t=5s
So, let’s imagine that one-day Neuralin could be applied to human beings, that with Neuralink people could learn all the knowledge and skill instantly, and that Neuralink could reach ultimate knowledge-equity. When a child was born, a Neuralink was plugged into the brain, like one of the vaccines. With the Link, the newly born child could understand what the parents were talking about, could express its needs fluently in various languages with no-need for crying. Education could be so much easier. Teachers could save the time and effort to explain or assign homework. Parents had no worries about grades or scores. People could learn the same knowledge and skill at the same time, or even at the minute when the knowledge or skill was newly invented.
Is that a better way of education? Or could it replace education?
Transhumanism is indeed a hot topic. The current devices that I am aware of that somewhat follow this concept are used to enhance hearing to the brain or to act as pacemakers for patients who suffer from depression.
The educational questions I have are:
1. Is learning a symptom? And if so, what symptoms are desirable or undesirable?
2. What are the implants trying to fix within learning?
3. Would Gardener ‘s multiple intelligences play a role in determining aspects of intelligence?
4. What are the implants trying to fix within the school?
5. Would the implants be compliant to standards of the school’s educational curriculum?
I think these questions would really baffle Elon.