We are at least proving that information transfer is taking place
accompied with signalling in the brains involved. This was certainly
demonstrated long ago but had lacked a mechanism and physical
confirmation which this provides.
That mind to mind is our natural form of communication is something
that I have recently understood and that it has been cut of generally
is also understood. The difficulty with mind to mind is that it is
image driven rather than word driven and certainly not written text
driven at all. The proper development of intelligence demanded a
written language as well and that drove the cessation of mind to
mind.
Recall that it takes physical work for the brain to rewire and
accomadate language forms and the associated writing. That is mostly
why we go to school. Our conscious self can handle all this in the
present very easily, but later it needs an embedded look up table.
Thus the secret to memory is to consciously design a lookup table and
organize around it.
Brain-to-Brain
Communication Thousands of Miles Away Proven a Reality by Harvard
Researchers
by Christina
Sarich
September 8th, 2014
A group of
international neuroscientists and robotics engineers have discovered
for the first time that human brains can indeed ‘talk’ directly
to one another, even from thousands of miles away.
A brain-to-brain
communication study conducted in coordination with Harvard Medical
School has proven that extrasensory mind-to mind
interaction can happen over great distances by leveraging different
pathways in the mind.
The study, coauthored
by Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for
Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(BIDMC) and a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School,
found that information can be successfully transmitted between
two intact human brains from distances over 5000 miles apart.
The researchers were curious if one could communicate directly with another person, and tested their hypothesis by reading the brain activity from one person injecting brain activity into the second individual. You could call it a neuro-physical version of ‘instant messaging.’
“In the
neuroscientific equivalent of instant messaging, Pascual-Leone,
together with Giulio Ruffini and Carles Grau leading a team of
researchers from Starlab Barcelona, Spain, and Michel Berg,
leading a team from Axilum Robotics, Strasbourg, France,
successfully transmitted the words “hola” and “ciao” in a
computer-mediated brain-to-brain transmission from a location in
India to a location in France using internet-linked
electroencephalogram (EEG) and robot-assisted and image-guided
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technologies.”
Using electrodes
attached to one person’s scalp to record their brain currents
(electrical signaling) during a thought-action, the computer could
interpret that signal and translate it to a control output like a
robot or a motorized wheelchair.
The study required
a second human brain on the receiving end. Participants who
successfully transmitted the two words were between the ages of 28
and 50, and four participated in the study. One subject was
responsible for the brain-computer interface (BCI) branch and was the
sender of the words chosen for the study, and the other three were
assigned the task of receiving the message with the computer-brain
interface observing their brain-wave patterns.
Although EEG patterns
had to be translated from binary code, the greetings ‘hola’ and
‘ciao’ were translated successfully and emailed as confirmation
back to the sender in India from France. When the messages
were sent, the subjects experienced brain stimulation as phosphenes,
which are flashes of light, which occur in peripheral vision as a
sort of morse code – as a sequence.
This corroborates
findings that people know when a loved one has died even when they
are thousands of miles away, and other strange phenomenon that seem
to exist out of the time/space barriers we have accepted as
limitations for person-to-person communication.
Perhaps we can ditch
our cell phones soon, once we learn how to ‘talk’ straight to our
intended recipients using just our minds.
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