Posted on 01/02/2019 6:48:25 PM PST by RightGeek
Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game.
The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people, and yes, it's as weird as it sounds.
It works through a combination of electroencephalograms (EEGs), for recording the electrical impulses that indicate brain activity, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), where neurons are stimulated using magnetic fields.
The researchers behind the system have dubbed it BrainNet, and say it could eventually be used to connect many different minds together, even across the web.
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In the experiment set up by the scientists, two 'senders' were connected to EEG electrodes and asked to play a Tetris-style game involving falling blocks. They had to decide whether each block needed rotating or not.
To do this, they were asked to stare at one of two flashing LEDs at either side of the screen – one flashing at 15 Hz and the other at 17 Hz – which produced different signals in the brain that the EEG could pick up on.
These choices were then relayed to a single 'receiver' through a TMS cap that could generate phantom flashes of light in the receiver's mind, known as phosphenes.
The receiver couldn't see the whole game area, but had to rotate the falling block if a light flash signal was sent.
Across five different groups of three people, the researchers hit an average accuracy level of 81.25 percent, which is decent for a first try.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Oh, and there will be a low voltage line from the buzzer to the judge’s desk, to massage certain cases.
I envision linking together... Alexandra Occasio-Cortez... Maxine Waters .... and Whoopi Goldberg
Who’s up for that?
The Borg are coming. The liberal hive mind will try to exterminate us.
Thus reaching the left's long-term goal of creating artificial stupidity.
I’d take the potassium cyanide first.
AI singularity will happen before this idea reaches its potential.
+1
“linking together... Alexandra Occasio-Cortez... Maxine Waters .... and Whoopi Goldberg”
Sounds like a little corner of Hell.
I’ve been postulating that a truly great invention would be a mind-meld apparatus of sorts, with which doctors could FINALLY truly understand symptoms by feeling what we feel. Maybe then there would be similar apparatus for medical schools to train doctors.
Some kind of sympathetic...really, EMpathetic...system to truly understand symptoms and what it might mean for diagnosis.
Yes, I’ve been suffering a lot of problems and pains for a long time, much of which is unresolved. So, I tend to think long those lines.
Oh! Just Great! Stupidity Cubed!
(Stupid3)
That's what I was thinking after reading the excerpt.
It's not exactly sharing thoughts. Even if it were possible I don't think anybody would like "hearing" what's going on inside someone else's head.
There's someone for everyone.
And now Nancy, Chuck, and Adam can claim a 100 IQ.......
How long until they start squealing on each other?
Excellent
...Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts...
The first step in beginning a Democrat Borg hive.
I don’t think it would improve their diagnoses ... but there are a couple of doctors I would like to share my pain with. :)
The Borg is coming
After all....look how wonderful Facebook is
this should work out just fine...
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