China has approved the NEO brain-computer interface chip for commercial sale, beating Elon Musk's Neuralink to market, with state-run health system deployment imminent. The technology captures neural data — including thoughts and memories — raising direct questions about who controls the most intimate layer of human identity, with experts warning of government and corporate access to cognitive function. Revelation 13 describes a system in which human autonomy is surrendered to a controlling power; technology capable of reading, storing, and rewriting thought represents infrastructure with no historical parallel for that kind of dominion.