If someone doesn't speak my language I'd sell them groceries out of politeness, but other than that they're worthless beggars until they prove themselves to be good for my local culture.
... so now every YouTube video aimed at the general public has to open with some violence, drug use or sexual content? Just to make it abundantly clear that it's not for children?
Seems a lot more productive to use silicon as a feedback system for the brain via electro-magnetic radiation. Then it could function as scaffolding. Silicon isn't magically becoming more organic than a wet, soft brain full of DNA and other complex organic compounds.
I mean, that's one of the things we've been doing human experiments with for 30+ years now, via the wireless phone network and wifi. "Hold this radiation emitter next to your brain!" "New radiation patterns for the masses!"
Unless all species naturally end up at that stage and the only way to the next stage of evolution is to rise above it.
Or if every animal life is net more pain than enjoyment.
Or if it's the only way to have any lifeform exist into perpetuity. Then we're net beneficial to all other life on the planet as long as any of it survives along with us; disregarding that we're perpetuating a boatload of genes just by continuing to exist.
Any individual animal has a survival instinct. We have a survival instinct that encompasses much larger groups than that of any animal.
I have something related to tinitus: I sometimes get a ringing in my ear(s) when I'm deep in thought. It's not always both ears.
The article suggests to me that tilting your head sideways could be a way to cure tinitus - e.g. try various tilting movements (different speeds, angles, repetitions) to tune in and out of the parts of your inner ear that cause the tinnitus, taking note of any phenomenon that arise during various movement patterns. And don't forget the tension/relaxation variable! E.g. large, fast movements increase base tension, while slow, small movements decrease it.
I've quite a bit of experience loosening and tightening my joints from martial art; I imagine a similar process can be applied to nerve connections.
(In fact I've been trying to apply it to muscle growth via nerve stimulation because my room is on the small side for doing exercise. Burnt out a lot of nerve cells trying, now focussing on nutrition before I continue.)