British scientists develop brain to brain communication

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:00 pm

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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

Noobs_Slayer · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1196 **Location:** AioN

what gonna be next, super juicy nano sp*rm? Nice news though...

XMoshe · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:07 pm

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

Squirt · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 8186 **Location:**

Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

Noobs_Slayer · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1196 **Location:** AioN

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

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:20 pm

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

Squirt · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 8186 **Location:**

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.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

XMoshe wrote:

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

What's so horrible about It?.. lulz

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:50 pm

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

Blurred · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 2894 **Location:**

They could use this in the court of law.

XesoS · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:06 pm

Blurred wrote:

They could use this in the court of law.

Was thinking the same ...

Isis · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4171 **Location:**

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..

Barotix · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 9250 **Location:** Sand

XesoS wrote:

Blurred wrote:

They could use this in the court of law.

Was thinking the same ...

Privacy.

OnT: fck dat noize dawg.

Deadsolid · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 1789 **Location:**

I dont want a trojan in my head!

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

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.

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:46 pm

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.

Scary shit.

Nick Invaders · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 1105 **Location:**

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.

ltsune · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 5751 **Location:**

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:

Kaigar · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 252 **Location:** Australia

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.

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

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

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:01 pm

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

Kaigar · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 252 **Location:** Australia

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.

LillDev!l · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 2587 **Location:** OTL&OG

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

So

Barotix wrote:

Privacy.

OnT: fck dat noize dawg.

XMoshe · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:22 pm

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

Blinxx · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 463 **Location:**

so long as they aren't able to accurately read my thoughts against my privacy, I'm safe :X

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

jay0303 · **Joined:** Sep 2007 **Posts:** 1047 **Location:**

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

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

Amarisa · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4049 **Location:** Magic

honestly they are going to far

.AWAKE. · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 2070 **Location:**

haha just watched the movie "Surrogates" I think it would be awesome if we were on that level of technology..

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