>>132855194I actually studied cybernetics, the mathematical kind, with some robotic modules, I'll try to give some perspective about that stuff and try to put it into laymans terms.
Im kinda tired, but since I can shed some light on this stuff, please bear with me if you're interested.
First of all, the brain isn't fully understood, its still mosrly blackbox. The most stuff we know today is which part of the brain do what and how the thing works on a fundamental level (how signals get from point a to point b and stuff, biology/neurology isn't my strong point) but other than this it boils down to "something happens in there and an electrical signal gets out".
Its possible to read and understand those signals, take a look at this for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQNi5sAwucAs you can see, muscles react to signals, they have some basic information like "contract" or "relax". Muscles work by contracting and relaxing, thats well known shit, like a tank that wants to turn, you just differ the strength of the moving parts, not that hard.
So since the signals itself isn't complicated, why isn't there some rad cyberware?
Basically, there actually is, there have been great leaps in recent years when it comes to prosthetics, most of you have probably seen at least a couple videos of arms doing pretty impressive shit. But this stuff isn't really interesting for most people since they don't understand why that stuff is so cool. And thats the mathematics and models behind it. While simply reading a signal is pretty easy, knwoing what it means is another story. Designing a robotic part that actually works with signals from the brain is complicated as shit. You see, there is a reason why in most of (simpler) electical engineering I²C or pulse-witdth-modulation dominates when it comes to transfering information. Its simple, it has a clear structure and we know everything about it. The brain is, as metioned before, mostly a blackbox.
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