British scientists develop 'brain to brain communication'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6331511/British-scientists-develop-brain-to-brain-communication.html

10 9 17 years ago

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eam• 17 years ago

People who tweet would love this!

However, I do find a downside to this. I would have to be extra careful about my opinionated thoughts about others while I'm around them.

JCThoughtscream• 17 years ago

I suppose there's always taking yourself off the network - like how we step away from our computers sometimes.

...what, I can't be the only one that takes the occasional break. Right?

known2• 17 years ago

Is it different from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy

philwelch• 17 years ago

Quoth the article:

“It’s not telepathy,” Dr James told the paper. “There’s no conscious thought forming in one person’s head and another conscious thought appearing in another person’s mind. “The next experiments are to get that second person to be aware of the information that is being sent to them. For that, I need to get my thinking cap on, so to speak.”

This is Hacker News. It would behoove you to read what Slashdotters call "TFA" before commenting.

known2• 17 years ago

thank you.

chaosmachine• 17 years ago

"The first person generated a series of zeros and ones, where they imagined moving their left arm for zero and right arm for one."

The first time I heard that people could operate robotic limbs with their thoughts, I thought: Two people could communicate almost telepathically, if they'd just hook up this brain reader to a Morse code transmitter/receiver.

Ultimately, this could lead to a little device that sits behind your ear, allowing communication from person to person, completely clandestinely. On the sending end, perhaps you just have to think about moving your fingers to type, and it picks up the letters from your brain waves. On the receiving end, it uses text-to-speech to read the message back into your ear.

KevBurnsJr• 17 years ago

All interpersonal communication is brain-to-brain communication; whether the message delivery method is visual, auditory, tactile, electrical or electrochemical.

olliesaunders• 17 years ago

This really isn't that new. Also, what is the final comment?

  “The next experiments are to get that second person 
  to be aware of the information that is being sent to them.
  For that, I need to get my thinking cap on, so to speak.”

Is he admitting that he hasn't managed to send information from a computer directly to a brain? If so the title of this article is a lie. "Developed" No! Developing? Yes!

jermy• 17 years ago

Ah, they must be fans of Peter F. Hamilton. I wonder if they have they started growing Bitek yet?

British scientists develop 'brain to brain communication'

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