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The transmission of thought over the network

15.01.2015

A person can transfer a command to another person just by thinking about it.

Not much time has passed since the implantation of the first chips into a person and the creation of equipment for controlling a robot with the power of thought, and now they are talking about the direct transfer of thoughts from person to person.

This is the experiment that researchers from the University of Washington, led by Rajesh Rao, have set up with money from the W. M. Kekka Foundation. The human transmitter was put on an encephalography cap, its output was connected to the Internet, and he himself was seated in front of a computer display, where a shooting game was playing. However, he could not press the trigger - he could only think about moving his hand. And the human receiver, wearing an Internet-connected cap with electromagnets to stimulate the area of the brain responsible for hand movement, sat in a dark room without any computer, his hand on the joystick.

It was assumed that when the transmitter thinks about moving the joystick, the receiver makes this movement, and the result is reflected on the transmitter's display. The rooms were located in different buildings at a distance of half a kilometer, and three couples participated in the experiments.

As it turned out, depending on the ability of the transmitter to clearly formulate his thoughts, the receiver guessed from 25 to 83% of the commands. In subsequent experiments, scientists plan to determine what kind of information is transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver over the Network.

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