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While I understand that it's a bit sensationalized. At the end of the day, they're transmitting 1 bit of information at a very slow rate. While's that's only 1
by amingilani 8y ago
While I understand that it's a bit sensationalized. At the end of the day, they're transmitting 1 bit of information at a very slow rate. While's that's only 1 bit more than 0, it's still an infinite percentage increase, and still leaves me super excited.
Despite my bs-filter having toned it down and given me just the facts that it's 3 people in a room with wires on their head playing tetris, with 2 looking at lightbulbs to send signals, it's still got me pumped.
I really believe BCIs be game changers in the way we communicate with electronics (if not other humans), and I for one would love to play a game of tetris over the internet with an unknown mind.
Edit: even in its current transmission rates, I think this tech could have far reaching implications in a better form factor. 1 slow bit is all I need to take a picture, lock/unlock my car, flip the light switch, turn the tap, open/close the door, Start the washing machine, turn the tv on, start the car, close the window, etc.
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- blotter_paper 8y agoThe 1 bit limit doesn't look like a technological barrier, but a we-don't-feel-comfortable-cutting-into-human-brains-for-research barrier. Of mice and monkeys, the story is more than a bit different: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11869 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11869 This is coming. So fast.
- Blinks- 8y agoThis was a great read thanks, I found a good precursor study on brain-to-brain interface (BTBI) using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS), if you are not familiar with this research it's a good place to start: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01319 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01319
- Novashi 8y agoYeah, we really don't need the bandwidth until media can be sent/received/interpreted directly into the brain. Hooking up a portable BCI to a raspberry pi-equivalent as an intermediary should be all we need to really start connecting the brain electronically to the outside world in useful ways.
- Udik 8y ago> 3 people in a room with wires on their head playing tetris It's not really tetris, it's so simplified as to be reduced to a simple press/ don't press action. Also, the whole contraption is the union of two separate devices: an input device that picks up a single codified signal from an EEG (but could simply and more effectively track eye movements for the same result); and another one that produces a visible flick of light in a person's FOV- albeit not passing through the retina. That's it. It doesn't "transmit thoughts" at all, it transmits coded signals at a much slower rate than me typing on a keyboard right now.