There are days that after reading some news you no longer know if you are in reality, or have directly gone to live in a science fiction movie. Regardless of what is flooding the technology networks, in which news related to consumer electronics predominate, very from time to time some studies appear, some developments and research that are equally disturbing and tremendously impressive.
Moreover, sometimes I am not clear if film fantasy is a source of inspiration for scientists, rather than the opposite. On this occasion, it is Harvard University that surprises us with the development of an interface, a brain-to-brain connection between humans and animals. Yes, in this specific case that has been tested is direct communication between human and rat. Impressive right?
The experiment itself has managed to establish a method of direct brain-brain connection that enables the stimulation of a specific part of the brain to "do" something. Until now, the most accustomed we are to interfaces of this type is to devices that recognize our movements and interpret what we are going or want to do. But the opposite is much more complicated, because to begin with, we still have no idea how the human brain "encodes" thoughts., so inoculating or suggesting thoughts is too complicated.
So we are facing a method that can practically be said to be in the embryonic stage but which has already resulted in what you see below. Through thoughts a human has been able to move the mouse's tail. Something that seems like bullshit but that with time and more research can bring advances in which everything is not limited to movement isolated from a part of the body of the "host".
The truth is that it is quite difficult to go into details of the operation of the entire shed, but basically, as we have commented previously, it is about exciting areas of the brain through exposure to ultrasound. A method called FUS (Focused Ultrasounds) that allows you to work in the brain area in a non-invasive way, something very positive. Although any human could wag the rat's tail simply by "generating" that thought, In this case, the entire mechanism works through a specific pattern that is generated by computer and that the moment the human looks at that pattern, the ultrasound is triggered.
Researchers are already working on transmitting more complex ideas, improving the transmission system and obviously (here comes one of the disturbing points) that communication can also take place in reverse. ANDThat is to say, that the mouse can transmit thoughts to the human. The goal, in addition to all the absurdities that you can think of, is to create a two-way human-human communication system. The idea of the long-awaited telepathy would be among the objectives, although it could also be possible to communicate with animals, for example. Although here I am very afraid that the limits can be transgressed. Hence, the possibilities of this investigation are as interesting as worrisome. Don't you think?
Via Extremetech
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