Intercontinental Rat Brain Borg

The news that two rats, one in North Carolina and one in Brazil, share connections between two motor cortices is either The Matrix or meh. For me, this very likely results in a cautious next step to a interconnected Rhesus monkey compute hardware. I see a path to Turing Machines with sentient (an ability to sense) capability.

In summary, an encoding rat and a decoding rat have neuronal connections to sensors in their respective brains. An interesting subset of the subjective experience of the encoding rat is captured, processed and transmitted (brain egress) to electronics which interact with the motor cortex of the decoding rat (egress). Packet switched cognition.

Content is consciousness in Dennett's construal of the subjective experience. That is, my subjective experience arrises from a sparse matrix of sensory experience where almost everything is ignored by my mental machinery so that a narrow focus of input sensation is expanded in my brain/mind for a response to the world around me. I am not seeing everything I am looking at or listening to everything I am hearing. I am construing context from intervals of sparse content.

In GiTS terms, the inner voice Aramaki broadcasts (or narrow casts) to Section 9 phenotypes is a short burst of impressions (message egress) which receiving brains (message ingress) enlarge into subjective consciousness  The trick is that the rules for message interpretation improve over time through training and practice. That is, Major Kusenagi did not hear the initial commands from the first sender -- this mutualist understanding took training to advance beyond the rat to rat motor cortex experience to a fuller exchange as individual differences in precept and response changed for both parties over time.

In Matrix conscious ecosystem the interconnected brain/mind is the sensing function and the Architect's machinery interacts with sensation to achieve a DNA/XNA subjective experience juiced by ZNA AI's