Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts

Science Alert ^ | 1/1/2019 | David Nield

[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.

[RightGeek]

Not quite mind reading.

[BenLurkin]

Mad scientists

[raygunfan]

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

[TLI]

"Our results raise the possibility of future brain-to-brain interfaces that enable cooperative problem solving by humans using a 'social network' of connected brains,"

mmmmm...

Nothing could go wrong with that, right?

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[Ignatz]

The Hive is born.

[tomkat]

If the Dhimmis get hold of it, we can look forward to what,  idiots^x ?

(substitute your best exponential guess for x, sports fans ;-)

[CincyRichieRich]

Color me doubtful.

[JBW1949]

A mind is a turrable thang.....

[max americana]

They dont need to do that. Soros, obama and schumer think alike..

[max americana]

They dont need to do that. Soros, obama and schumer think alike..

[oldasrocks]

If our wives knew what we were thinking part of the time there would be a lot more funerals.

[TheZMan]

This is like the claims of “AI”. Neat, but not what they’re claiming.

[ZULU]

Do you think if you merged the brains of three Democrats, it might give you one normal human mentality?

[Petrosius]

What could possibly go wrong?

[mrsmith]

Not quite, indded.
But the next step will be a Morse Code analogue.

[Secret Agent Man]

Hive already exists.

You see them glued to their phones. Theyre all over.

[NobleFree]

Do you think if you merged the brains of three Democrats, it might give you one normal human mentality?

A dullwitted gerbil, maybe ...

[Moonman62]

Not quite mind reading.

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Nope. In practice it’s not any different than other means of communicating.

[going hot]

Used to be witch suspects were tied to a chair and placed underwater. Those that lived were obvious witches and burned at the stake.

With this new discovery, under dem control, no more courts, juries, defense attorneys or prosecutors.

The perp simply places his head in the contraption, and if the buzzer goes off, he is guilty, and decapitated immediately.

[Drew68]

Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts