Transfer information from brain to machine across the water to brain

[angryChineseKahanist]

http://uncovercalifornia.com/content/21451-scientists-successful-transmitting-brain-brain-information

[muman613]

Reminds me of the man with two brains...

[muman613]

Maybe we can use this in the future development of Smell-O-Vision...

[angryChineseKahanist]

have you read up about the quantum mechanical teleportation of a photon across islands in africa?
they used lasers. the photon was not actually moved but recreated. not exactly star trek.

anyway, its already well known that human brains transmit electrical signals.

[muman613]

have you read up about the quantum mechanical teleportation of a photon across islands in africa?
they used lasers. the photon was not actually moved but recreated. not exactly star trek.

anyway, its already well known that human brains transmit electrical signals.

Indeed this is well known. As a matter of fact 30+ years ago I had conceived of this very experiment. Being able to record brain activity into a computer and recreating that pattern in a cloned brain. This was my way of envisioning the ability to 'live forever' by repeatedly downloading my brain into new cloned bodies... But there are many difficult ethical questions posed by this. Now as an adult I don't know if it is ethical do engage in this kind of 'live forever' question.

[Zelhar]

It seems to me there was no breakthrough just expensive publicity trick. What they did in fact was:
1. The "transmitting person enter a code to a computer using his brain rather the hands.
2. The computer sends a simple binary signal to the receiver brain by zapping two different brain parts to represent 0 and 1.
3. The receiver then "decodes" the message by writing down the binary and figuring out what the word was.

Part 1. has been done before even a more complicated task, for example a monkey was taught how to operate a bionic arm hooked into his brain.
Part 2. Must have been done before as well. Mind you all the "receiver" does is distinguish between two different signals to two parts of his brain. He doesn't comprehend the thought being transmitted to him but merely receives a binary signal which he can then write down and interpret. Therefore, it is not telepathy and not a breakthrough in brain to brain communication.

[angryChineseKahanist]

z, that may be true.  Can't tell if they're just trying to win national science grants.
but the human brain does emit electrical signals that's how they do sleep tests at clinics.