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British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:00 pm
by NuclearSilo
The system, developed by a team at the University of Southampton, is said to be the first technology that would allow people to send thoughts, words and images directly to the minds of others, particularly people with a disability.
It has also been hailed as the future of the internet, which would provide a new way to communicate without the need for keyboards and telephones.
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more on http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... ation.html

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:04 pm
by Noobs_Slayer
what gonna be next, super juicy nano sp*rm? Nice news though...

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:07 pm
by XMoshe
As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:10 pm
by Squirt
Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:19 pm
by Noobs_Slayer
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

No one wants to have their thoughs readen. Imagine, you thinking about boobs an'butts and someone reading your thoughs lawl

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:20 pm
by NuclearSilo
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

but you want to read others'thought :roll:

I believe with this tool, human will be more honest with each other. You can't lie and you can "show" your desire easily toward someone :D

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:27 pm
by Squirt
Noobs_Slayer wrote:
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

No one wants to have their thoughs readen. Imagine, you thinking about boobs an'butts and someone reading your thoughs lawl


Not just that, imagine the people who have all those weird fetishes, they would become and instant Pariah.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:32 pm
by *BlackFox
XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.
What's so horrible about It?.. lulz

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:50 pm
by NuclearSilo
Squirt wrote:
Noobs_Slayer wrote:
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

No one wants to have their thoughs readen. Imagine, you thinking about boobs an'butts and someone reading your thoughs lawl


Not just that, imagine the people who have all those weird fetishes, they would become and instant Pariah.

well, if they choose to think about it, they got to face the consequence

XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

If you are a good person, and don't have a dark mind. There's nothing to worry about. Ppl around will respect you :)

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:49 pm
by Blurred
They could use this in the court of law. :)

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:06 pm
by XesoS
Blurred wrote:They could use this in the court of law. :)

Was thinking the same ...

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:10 pm
by Isis
Noobs_Slayer wrote:
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

No one wants to have their thoughs readen. Imagine, you thinking about boobs an'butts and someone reading your thoughs lawl

Don't really need to read someone's thoughts to know that, most men think about that anyway..

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:24 pm
by Barotix
XesoS wrote:
Blurred wrote:They could use this in the court of law. :)

Was thinking the same ...


Privacy.

OnT: fck dat noize dawg.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:28 pm
by Deadsolid
I dont want a trojan in my head!

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:38 pm
by *BlackFox
Deadsolid wrote:I dont want a trojan in my head!
Yeah.. lulz
Seriously, It would be creepy.. If someone could read someone else's mind.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:46 pm
by NuclearSilo
Image

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:33 pm
by inky
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.

Scary shit.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:24 pm
by Nick Invaders
NuclearSilo wrote:
XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

If you are a good person, and don't have a dark mind. There's nothing to worry about. Ppl around will respect you :)

I'm a good person, but I still wouldn't want anyone to read my mind. Sure there's nothing for someone to find, but it would just be weird.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:03 pm
by ltsune
XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

Pretty much this.

It would really be facked up :roll:

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:35 pm
by Kaigar
From the look of it, after reading the article, it's a system where a computer first has to be trained to recognise a paricular thought pattern in order to then send a specific signal, the example in the article being: think of moving the left arm for 0 and right arm for 1.

So the machine can't decipher real thoughts, it has to be trained to perform an action after reading a thought.

It also looks like the other half of this so-called brain-to-brain communication, that is the "to-brain" part isn't even direct. It's more or less brain-to-computer-to-eyeball, then they monitored the brainwaves to make sure the eyeball picked up the signal. Total BS and pure hype to call that brain-to-brain. Nothing special.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:53 pm
by Gaigemasta
yah i was e-raping www.engadget.com and it said that, pretty cool stuff, lets just hope it gets used for the right stuff

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:01 pm
by NuclearSilo
Kaigar wrote:From the look of it, after reading the article, it's a system where a computer first has to be trained to recognise a paricular thought pattern in order to then send a specific signal, the example in the article being: think of moving the left arm for 0 and right arm for 1.

So the machine can't decipher real thoughts, it has to be trained to perform an action after reading a thought.

It also looks like the other half of this so-called brain-to-brain communication, that is the "to-brain" part isn't even direct. It's more or less brain-to-computer-to-eyeball, then they monitored the brainwaves to make sure the eyeball picked up the signal. Total BS and pure hype to call that brain-to-brain. Nothing special.

That's just the begin. Wait till the end. Everytime you think about smt, your brain generated an electric wave, that's the catch

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:35 pm
by Kaigar
Unless they've got you hooked up to an EEG they won't be picking up diddly-squat signal. As the distance between the detector and the scource (various different parts of the brain with independantly-firing neurons) increases you would become less certain where your signal is coming from. There'd also be interference from any other nearby electrical field, nearby people/ other brains, there'd be no way of having your thoughts accurately read secretly from a distance.

I see no reason, however, if computers were programmed/trained to recognise and decipher thoughs well enough, that you might be able to have your thoughts read while strapped to an EEG.

So it's ok, you can all put your tin-foil hats down.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:03 pm
by LillDev!l
Hell no, if you could read people's thoughts and they could read yours, it would suck.

*Walks around on the street, seeing a girl walking around who'dd think "wonder what he's like in bed" >> you stare back at her and focus on thinking "Get the **** outta my mind you ugly bitch =["*

*Sitting in class being bored, staring outside the window in thought, thinking off your girlfriend last night >> rest of the class signal each other to check our your thought >> goodbye private life xD*

Same if you'dd have certain issue's at home, or whatever would be going around in your mind :P

So
Barotix wrote:Privacy.

OnT: fck dat noize dawg.

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:22 pm
by XMoshe
Nick Invaders wrote:
NuclearSilo wrote:
XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

If you are a good person, and don't have a dark mind. There's nothing to worry about. Ppl around will respect you :)

I'm a good person, but I still wouldn't want anyone to read my mind. Sure there's nothing for someone to find, but it would just be weird.


They won't find anything dark. They will find dirty things though :P

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:13 am
by Blinxx
so long as they aren't able to accurately read my thoughts against my privacy, I'm safe :X :P


NuclearSilo wrote:If you are a good person, and don't have a dark mind. There's nothing to worry about. Ppl around will respect you :)


lol if they do, then people who's different from " good " will be adressed at " bad " o.O

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:42 am
by jay0303
NuclearSilo wrote:
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

but you want to read others'thought :roll:

I believe with this tool, human will be more honest with each other. You can't lie and you can "show" your desire easily toward someone :D

hello imagine the chaos i mean what if osama thing obama is hot when they are about to execute him

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:31 am
by Amarisa
honestly they are going to far

Re: British scientists develop brain to brain communication

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:55 am
by .AWAKE.
haha just watched the movie "Surrogates" I think it would be awesome if we were on that level of technology..