‘People think it's like the Matrix’: Neuralink’s first patient on having a brain chip

Noland Arbaugh spoke to Euronews Next about what he has been doing since the brain implant and his hopes for the future.

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00:00From month to month, I see things get better and better, and I can only imagine where I'll

00:25be in another few months, but the things I've been able to accomplish with it are incredible.

00:31And it's still helping me grow in other parts of my life, helping me, you know, learn, helping

00:36me hopefully go back to school and get a job, which are things that I didn't think I would

00:39ever be able to do again.

00:41So it's just the beginning for me and for Neuralink.

00:45I'm just really excited to see where it goes.

00:55Now I can, you know, lie in bed if I want to and play chess for hours.

01:14I can play until the Neuralink battery dies and then recharge it and play again.

01:18I can play in the middle of the night when no one is up because I don't need someone

01:23around to help me all the time.

01:26Bonjour, ça va, ça va, je m'appelle Nolan, I don't know, enchanté, I don't know what

01:47else to say.

01:49Yeah, that's a start.

01:53Hajimemashite, that's nice to meet you in Japanese, Nolan desu, so for you Japanese

02:01speakers out there, I'm learning, I'm getting there, I'll get there eventually.

02:11But my first goal, like first and foremost, is to find some way to help other people and

02:15I know that Neuralink can, so that's all I want to be a part of and I knew that going

02:21through this that I would be helping in some way.

02:24So it gave me a lot of encouragement and then also my faith.