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Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts
Science Alert ^ | 1/1/2019 | David Nield

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 ...


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To: RightGeek

Don’t let google hear about this...


61 posted on 01/02/2019 7:45:58 PM PST by matthew fuller (https://patriotpost.us/alexander/13407-the-battle-of-athens-tennessee)
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To: redfreedom

The insanity quotient is always positive, the higher the number, the higher the insanity, the scale starts at 1...


62 posted on 01/02/2019 7:47:28 PM PST by null and void (If they don't respect our borders, why would you expect them to respect our National Parks, or us?)
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To: Sasparilla
Faux title. The brains were not connected and the thoughts were not connected; reading the eeg potentials was collated.

IF mental telepathy does exist then the medium for the transmissions should be studied. It is not a known vagary of electromagnetic phenomena.

63 posted on 01/02/2019 7:53:18 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: RightGeek

We had this when I was a kid. It was called a party line.


64 posted on 01/02/2019 7:55:47 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

With the old two cans a long string, did you ever try connecting a third can to see what happened?


65 posted on 01/02/2019 7:59:33 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: RightGeek
p28

"Did you tell Kirk to take off his shirt and wear that?"

"Nope, wudn't me."

"Me neither."

66 posted on 01/02/2019 8:00:18 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: RightGeek

Soon in a democrat neighborhood near you: kumbaya Orange man bad


67 posted on 01/02/2019 8:01:13 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: RightGeek

wired into Zuckbook or Besozon no doubt.


68 posted on 01/02/2019 8:01:51 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: raygunfan

“exactly....those who have that ability would laff at this ‘experiment’”

It’s not mind reading. No one has that ability. Charlatans claim to.


69 posted on 01/02/2019 8:03:01 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ZULU
>>Do you think if you merged the brains of three Democrats, it might give you one normal human mentality?

No, they would insist that their wrong answer is “correct” because they reached “consensus”.

70 posted on 01/02/2019 8:03:21 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: TigersEye

LOL!


71 posted on 01/02/2019 8:05:15 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

Hurts just to think about it doesn’t it? You’ll never touch that “stove” again! lol


72 posted on 01/02/2019 8:07:25 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: RightGeek

According to the plot line of Manifest, we are going to need this kind of technology to win the coming war with AI controlled robots of the future.


73 posted on 01/02/2019 8:20:49 PM PST by Gritty-Kitty
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To: RightGeek

Neuro-Conference-Call.


74 posted on 01/02/2019 8:23:59 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: RightGeek

No doubt the porn industry is intrested in this technology.


75 posted on 01/02/2019 8:27:17 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Karl Spooner

Well, even if it doesn’t work it will make a good plot for the next “Flesh Hunter” movie.


76 posted on 01/02/2019 8:34:37 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: RightGeek

If some people gull me into one of these experiments, I will spend the time thinking happy thoughts about beheading people, so that they will never bother me again.


77 posted on 01/02/2019 8:37:24 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: PLMerite
In a twisted sort of way, she gave us President Obama.
78 posted on 01/02/2019 8:39:23 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: tomkat

And worse, after so many times they think you’re crazy, or just pesky over small things. Especially when testing doesn’t find anything. YET.

No, they need to feel the pain is real, and exactly what it is like. Sometimes I have problems they think is just a continuance of something we know I have, but I swear, the pain is completely different. But no, it’s just the same old thing....


79 posted on 01/02/2019 8:39:56 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: RightGeek

eliminates communication, but not much else.


80 posted on 01/02/2019 8:41:24 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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