Successful experiment to send messages directly to the brain via the net

In the field of brain science, researches are being made to analyze the brain waves and analyze what they are actually thinking, by merely thinking in mindExperiment of maneuvering an airplane without limbsHas been successful. In an experiment by another research team, it has been clarified that an attempt to transmit information by transmitting measured brain waves on the Internet and sending electric signals to another person's brain has been successful.

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The international research team of several scientists conducted experiments on four subjects aged 28 to 50 years old. A headset for electroencephalogram recording on the subject's head (EEG headset:ELectroENcephaloGRaphy), measure brain waves when you think of greetings such as "Hola (Spanish)" or "Ciao (Italian)", and create encoded data. The data was sent from the city of Thiruvananthapuram in southern India to Strasbourg located northeast of France via the Internet.


Received France restored the encoded data and the contents of the greeting were sent directly to the brain by giving a stimulus with a weak current from the electrode attached to the subject's head. At this time, although the subject was able to feel a faint light in his eyes, he said that he was in a state of almost not feeling anything, but I report it later that I heard the greeting voice. The research team also conducted similar experiments from two places in Spain and France, both of which have been successful.


However, it seems that the accuracy still remains, and the result that the error rate at the time of completing the whole experiment is 15% has come out. The breakdown was 4% at the coding stage on the transmitting side and 11% at the decoding side on the receiving side.

However, the research team says that this result is a remarkable progress in research in this field. Communication using EEG has been successful in experiments carried out with mice so far, but verification by humans has just entered a stage where it will be advanced from now. There are still many parts to be clarified in the field of information transmission from the brain to the brain, but from this experimental result it has been ensured that this technique can be applied to human beings.

ByArs Electronica

On the other hand, it seems that there is no doubt that ethical and sociological arguments will occur as research in this field progresses. It is easy to imagine who will handle this kind of equipment directly working on the human brain, and that it leads to tragedy such as certain kind of mind control, so that discussion on these issues will be done in parallel It seems to be said that it is required.