• "My Mind, To Your Mind" - True Brain To Brain Communication Achieved Over The Internet
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[QUOTE]Tapping directly into someone’s brain in order to share thoughts isn’t just for Spock anymore. An international team of researchers were able to replicate the [URL="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Vulcan_mind_meld"]Vulcan Mind Meld[/URL]by creating a device that allows two people to share information through thought. The researchers tested the technology by separating the users over 8,000 km (5,000 mi) apart—with one user in France and the other in India. The paper has been published in [URL="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105225"][I]PLOS ONE[/I][/URL]."We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by leveraging existing communication pathways," co-author Alvaro Pascual-Leone said in a [URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140903105646.htm"]press release[/URL]. "One such pathway is, of course, the internet, so our question became, 'Could we develop an experiment that would bypass the talking or typing part of internet and establish direct brain-to-brain communication between subjects located far away from each other in India and France?'" The device connects directly to the users’ scalps and impulses from the sender were picked up via [URL="http://www.iflscience.com/search/node/eeg"]electroencephalogram[/URL] (EEG) as well as by image-guided and robot-assisted[URL="http://www.iflscience.com/search/node/tms"]transcranial magnetic stimulation[/URL] (TMS). The signal was encoded and sent via the internet to the user on the other end. Once it reached its target destination, the code was then interpreted by a computer interface and delivered to the recipient. The device worn by the recipient stimulates phosphenes, which appear as flashes of light even though there isn’t actually any light entering the eye. (You can see this phenomenon for yourself by going into a dark room, closing your eyes, and then pushing on your eyeball.) The phosphenes are delivered in a pattern, which needs to be deciphered by the recipient who wears a blindfold to block out other visual stimuli.[/QUOTE] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ws7yLld.png[/img_thumb] [URL="http://www.iflscience.com/brain/direct-brain-brain-communication-used-humans"]Source[/URL]
I'm looking forward to the Hivemind. [editline]seriously wtf[/editline] *We're
Any forum, comment section, or in-game chat that used this would be a nice new form of torture.
Imagine if we can increase the accuracy of this, we could allow people who can't speak & move (vegetables) to potentially live again.
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;45886211]Imagine if we can increase the accuracy of this, we could allow people who can't speak & move (vegetables) to potentially live again.[/QUOTE] so 4chan people?
[QUOTE=tirpider;45886187]Any forum, comment section, or in-game chat that used this would be a nice new form of torture.[/QUOTE] [sp]Listening to the "What turns you on" thread[/sp] [IMG]http://puu.sh/bkujy/b9aba44ad3.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;45886211]Imagine if we can increase the accuracy of this, we could allow people who can't speak & move (vegetables) to potentially live again.[/QUOTE] Or even literal vegetables, L. Ron Hubbard would be proud [IMG]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01532/tomato_1532615i.jpg[/IMG]
but can we implant thoughts into somebodies mind
[I]"With our powers combined!"[/I]
This will make it easier to share enjoyable and memorable porn [editline]3rd September 2014[/editline] "Hey man, check out this one. Hold up I'm sending it via Mindchat" [editline]3rd September 2014[/editline] "Nice dude, that's some solid 60fps 3D porn. Thanks!" [editline]3rd September 2014[/editline] "I know! Look at those nipple hairs!" [editline]3rd September 2014[/editline] "Yeah, it's almost as if you could start an ant farm on them"
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0agmkHi0nks[/media] Yuri's master plan is folding out. Wake up!
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;45886376]but can we implant thoughts into somebodies mind[/QUOTE] "[I]we could make your leaders think our thoughts, make your people dream our dreams[/I]" or since its over the internet, probably some hax0r or that 4chan guy will just send porn, lots of porn
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;45886376]but can we implant thoughts into somebodies mind[/QUOTE] i think inception is a little ways off
It's not as impressive as the title makes it out to be. The recipient still has to decipher the phosphene patterns. [quote]The phosphenes are delivered in a pattern, which needs to be deciphered by the recipient who wears a blindfold to block out other visual stimuli.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Foxtrot200;45886639]It's not as impressive as the title makes it out to be. The recipient still has to decipher the phosphene patterns.[/QUOTE] I think it was like, the recipient has to count the flashes and get the same pattern as was sent.
now they need to encode and send voice data
[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;45886157]I'm looking forward to the Hivemind. [editline]seriously wtf[/editline] *We're[/QUOTE] It already exists. It's called 4chan
[QUOTE=rewkasu;45887404]It already exists. It's called 4chan[/QUOTE] You're looking too far away.
[QUOTE=Foxtrot200;45886639]It's not as impressive as the title makes it out to be. The recipient still has to decipher the phosphene patterns.[/QUOTE] but it's a step in a very cool and scary direction Train your personal unit to understand your thought/voice pattern, have it translate to plaintext, and boom, suddenly you've got telepathy.
Imagine this being used for proxy soldiers? Like people fighting wars through clone avatars half-way across the globe. Something maybe like F.E.A.R.
Well, i'm scared.
Doing work will now be impossible with angry 12 year olds DDOSing your brain all the time.
Maybe we can finally find out if babies really are the smartest people on the planet. Jaden Smith, we'll do you proud.
But can I block it out with Tin Foil???
[QUOTE=Problem;45887848]But can I block it out with Tin Foil???[/QUOTE] Well, tin foil does work as a Faraday cage to that TMS receiving end, so yes.
Not that impressive for someone who's been looking at EEGs for the last year or two. I mean the method for analysing brain function seems just as good as it was before the news got to me. But... This shows potential for brain stimulation devices. At some point, we might be able to ware devices that stimulate and regulate emotions. And maybe even introduce words into our heads - by stimulating whatever the brain's audio comprehension system is.
I wonder if this could work between humans and animals? Or would there be an OS disparity? If it actually worked, being able to figure out what animals are thinking would open up a whole new field of superscience.
[QUOTE=ISPYUDIE;45887524]Doing work will now be impossible with angry 12 year olds DDOSing your brain all the time.[/QUOTE] I know this is a joke but really where is the limit of how much incoming information the human mind can handle?
[video=youtube;Pe-zq4bFPFU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-zq4bFPFU[/video]
[QUOTE=Cows Rule;45888774]I know this is a joke but really where is the limit of how much incoming information the human mind can handle?[/QUOTE] Well, judging by our input from our senses, we get a lot of input but most of it is "ignored" by the brain; for example you focus your eyes on a certain point or an object, you can't look sharply everywhere. I'm no expert but this is what I have learned. So I think a human brain could sustain a lot of input, but it would filter things out and focus on what it thinks is most important. [sp]porn[/sp]
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