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 ...
No thanks.
Ready to get brain hacked?
#38. “Resistance is futile. You cannot resist the Borg. You will be assimilated”.
Sounds like a Democrat Party plan for America.
[In any case, Jerri Ryan is hot as a SuperNova and pretty nice despite her politics. I’ve got photos to prove it}.
Now Alice Krige is also “cool” as the Borg Hive Queen. Just ask Picard.
I'm sure she prefers it that way. :)
That still wouldn't address the our technology shortcomings regarding time travelling physicians. Some don't seem to understand that most of us experience time in a progressive linear fashion and our lifetimes only cover a set period of time.
For example, I had one doctor insist that a thing that I began experiencing as a child was due to something else that happened when I was an adult.
Another told me that a different issue was psychological due to all of my tours in Vietnam during the war. I suppose that this is probably a very good diagnosis. Im having trouble understanding it though because to my knowledge Im neither old enough to have fought nor have I ever been to Vietnam but, Im not a licensed physician so I probably should shouldn't question it too much until Im up to speed on these things.
I suppose that we could enact legislation that only temporal linear entities could be MDs but then they would probably just slip to whenever they are allowed to practice so that probably wont help.
I guess Im just overthinking things. We do have the pharmaceutical industry watching out for us. I had gotten a good piece of advice from a commercial the other day, "tell your doctor if you might have been to areas where certain fungal infections are common." Now I make sure to start every conversation with anyone in the medical community with that statement. Im not sure where that place is or what fungus we are worried about but I might have been there so its within reason that I might maybe have it and I sure don't want to miss out on another prescription now that I know that its available.
(Yes, in both cases I subsequently found more competent physicians.)
Would this be a horror show or insane comedy like John Cleese in the Monty Python show? :)
Brother, I want in on that program !!!
Hey doc, do you remember all those times you told Me: "it's not that bad", "just think of happy things", "it really can't hurt that many ways at the same time", "?all day and night?", "Your feet hurt so bad it makes you nauseous?", "here take 2 of these Tylenol 3's every 8 hours", "Oipoids won't help the pain they will just mask it..."
JACKA$$E$...
Wire Cutters
BrainPal™
One flesh.
Agreed.
Hillary, 0bama and Comey
so that.s why the dims all think the same
what they are doing is learming how to disconnect, we are already connected to God’s life
let’s see clueless plus super dork, and total screamin liar, blended result is Obamma
LOL
I didn’t see the part about how the minds were interconnected.
(They weren’t).
Those electrical impulses are not thoughts. Words have meanings.
Sure they have. Go away.
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