Oh god - this is bothersome.
(I thought about putting this in "Science", but it deserves general coverage).
We've heard about previous "sending of thoughts" via the "internet" using one set of EEG (electroencephalograph pickup or "receiver" electrodes) leads stuck on the head of a "Sender" to another person with sender(additional leads that have a small current driving them) electrodes attached to their scalp.
The sender's brain signals were able to be received, digitized, sent over the internet, and then decoded back into a set of stimulations, that drove the electrodes attached to the scalp of the "target"..
(ref: http://theconversation.com/brain-to-...elepathy-37926 - the science of telepathy)
That was strange enough..
What I understand is that there is a unique "neural hologram" or wiring pattern which the brain and being and nervous system develops as the baby grows into an adult. That wiring pattern has prevented direct "wiring" of one person's brain to the other, as comparing the two people's neural patterns, one just sees a very occasional correlation, but for the most part, the out-of-synch-ness of the brains and the wiring pattern issue just comes across as "noise".
That's a good thing. We remain "INDIVIDUALS", not part of a "HIVE MIND".
Folks who have grown up with a sibling, or husband and wife married for long duration have observed that the "significant other" is able to anticipate what the other will say, or do, or comment and/or complete a sentence before the other completes it. That phenomena is very observable, and has baffled neuro-scientists for years.. Finally some brilliant ah-ha's resulted in a realization that it is a type of entrainment, that induces synchronous neural patterns..
And it gets baffling when effects at a distance occur.. How can billionths of a watt of power emitted from one brain get received by another brain tens of feet away, yet alone the phenomenon is observable from hundreds if not thousands of miles away? Astronaut Ed Mitchell (formerly Noetic Sciences) observed in the moon-to-earth experiments that transmission and reception at such distances were indeed possible, and he got excited enough to form an institute for the study of consciousness, telepathy and the information science behind how body/mind/brain are tied into all life. ref: https://noetic.org/directory/person/edgar-mitchell
In the early 1980's I published a paper on the science of the "neural hologram", and presented at an IEEE conference to a group of leading scientists interested in how the brain's information systems worked - such as how "willing a finger to move to type" was a result of a neural holographic painted "image" (image is a descriptor in this case, of the "program" required to evoke stimulation, and feedback between the intention of "finger movement" muscle movement, and controlling JUST enough drive to not over-shoot)..
A fellow from Wright Patterson AFB walked up to me, a heavy set desk-potato-guy a department head wanting to know this: "We haven't been able to get our FLY-BY-BRAIN-WIRE jet fighters to function reliably - it is intermittent, we have some sort of "noise" in the signal, and it is so variable and unpredictable, this concept is impractical - but in your presentation you say you have solved the prediction issue, the noise issue - this holographic concept is, well frankly, "mind blowing" - how do you do it?"
That set of questions and statements was quite revealing to me, where they were at in the early 1980's.. And that military use of brain monitoring to control apparatus was actively being pursued back then. Part of my discussion was how we could monitor, observe feedback at the muscles, generate drive signals for what I coined "neural-prosthetics".. That was in 1983, and we had the parts technology and servo drive systems for helping paraplegics move their limbs again quite normally. If muscles were present, but just the nerves damaged, one could re-drive at the point past the damage and re-stimulate and monitor the muscles (neual feedback to prevent over-shoot) and affect a relatively normal motion without having to wear an artificial drive motor set.
But of course big business pharma says NO, we will keep people crippled, and nothing came out of it in light of the "military" use to control robotics in fighter planes..
There is some history.. Now back to the current situation at hand...
So they put the skull cap of electrodes on the HUMAN and started receiving the data, digitized it and looked for some key patterns within - some of the learning exercises is "move that cube with your mind" "visualize that cube moving using only your mind"..
And they looked for the patterns that appeared in this "sender subject", and categorized those "willful patterns".. They had from the trained sender, we can call this sender, the "ALBINO" a way to reliably make a computerized cube "move".. (the cube was controlled by other apparatus, no telekinesis yet)..
So some brilliant (sic) neural scientist says, "hey, you know how much we hate rats, let's stick wires in the motor cortex of a rat and hook those electrodes up to micro-stimulator current generators, and drive those wirelessly from known willed patterns in the Sender Human, and see what happens..."
Get this - a human mind willing a RAT to move according their human thoughts..
And guess what - it worked.
Human remotely controls another living being using their mind (and a bunch of high powered computer apparatus to filter out noise, and direct to specific locations in the remote being's brain..)
Are you concerned? I am.Abstract
Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) provide a promising information channel between the biological brain and external devices and are applied in building brain-to-device control.
Prior studies have explored the feasibility of establishing a brain-brain interface (BBI) across various brains via the combination of BMIs.
However, using BBI to realize the efficient multi-degree control of a living creature, such as a rat, to complete a navigation task in a complex environment has yet to be shown.
In this study, we developed a BBI from the human brain to a rat implanted with microelectrodes (i.e., rat cyborg), which integrated electroencephalogram-based motor imagery and brain stimulation to realize human mind control of the rat’s continuous locomotion.
Control instructions were transferred from continuous motor imagery decoding results with the proposed control models and were wirelessly sent to the rat cyborg through brain micro-electrical stimulation.
The results showed that rat cyborgs could be smoothly and successfully navigated by the human mind to complete a navigation task in a complex maze.
Our experiments indicated that the cooperation through transmitting multidimensional information between two brains by computer-assisted BBI is promising.
ref: https://www.nature.com/articles/s415...ZXx67tMu06ZQg4
Who did this?
Chinese scientists. (Should Trump or the Pentagon be concerned? I wonder if the fellow at Wright Patt is paying attention..)
I will point this out. This can be done wirelessly without implants in the target. That is state of the art. If they are willing to talk about the lower level "control" methods now (remember in 1983 I published the "science" of the neural-analysis/prosthetics uses) are folks that are "hearing voices", acting "robotically", just "crazy" or is there more to it?Six rats were engaged in this study. All methods were carried out in accordance with the National Research Council’s Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. All experimental protocols were approved by the Ethics Committee of Zhejiang University, China. Informed consent was obtained from all manipulators.