Black Box Testing Your Brain
“The world’s first brain prosthesis - an artificial hippocampus - is about to be tested in California.”
This is the result of black-box testing the hippocampus–the part of your brain that encodes “experiences so they can be stored as long-term memories”. It has proven to be elusive to its exact workings, but by treating it as a black-box and mimicking its response to inputs, scientists were able to devise a mathematical model that they could program onto a chip which could replace a malfunctioning hippocampus.
Some of the ethical issues are discussed in the article as well.