If you can do stuff like that, why not speed up your nervous system by directly connecting the brain to your arm and hands, skipping the slow neural network altogether?
This is not new technology. A company called cyberkinetics commercialized this 12 years ago and made it work in humans. See their coverage in wired from 2003.
I am sorry but that doing experiments like this on a living, breathing primate is sick. Surely there is somebody working on a way to develop mind-computer interfaces that doesn't rely on inflicting this kind of suffering on intelligent social animals?
