The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

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Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.

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Sentient, maybe some limited level of sapience, but not conscious as far as we understand the term

'I don't understand so it doesn't exist'

I literally said "as far as we understand the term." We as humans and as we define the term. They do not have consciousness based on what we currently know, and there's very little evidence that they do based on what experiments we are able to conduct. I'm not saying they unequivocally don't, all I'm saying is as we currently understand the term they do not.

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