Comments on: Rat brains linked in first ever brain-to-brain interface

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:28:00 +0000

Pro tip: nobody really knows what they’re doing.

By: gjbloom

gjbloom — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:13:00 +0000

Indeed. The exciting bit here is that we may eventually have much higher bandwidth connections between brains. Right now, a thought has to be abstracted into symbols, then encoded on a stream of air waves or characters, then decoded by the receiving brain, then more-or-less reconstituted in the brain of the receiver. If we had high-bandwidth brain interconnects, whole thoughts and perceptions might jump from brain to brain at the speed of thought. As a side-effect, our sense of individuality would be transformed. Our current notion of individuality is an artifact of the bandwidth bottleneck between our brains.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:19:00 +0000

“It’s alive! IT’S ALIVE!!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xos2MnVxe-c

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:17:00 +0000

Now you’re talking! Better still, “Scientists do potentially Apocalypic things for people to the BRAINS OF UNLIVING PEOPLE”

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:16:00 +0000

iMemory Mapping; not as accurate as Google Memory Mapping.

By: Bradley Robinson

Bradley Robinson — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:43:00 +0000

Well BRAINS OF DEAD ANIMALS wouldn’t exactly work, now would they?

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:24:00 +0000

Next – pleasure center to pleasure center. What one rat does, the other will enjoy also.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:46:00 +0000

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/28/macworld-uk-apple-censoring-i.html

A: “Dear, what have you been doing this last half hour?”

B: “Umm … I don’t know.”

A: “What do you mean you don’t know? What have you been doing?”

B: “Ummm …. nothing. I mean … I don’t know.”

A: “You filthy pervert! Your account is blank! You filthy disgusting pervert! I’m having nothing more to do with you!”

B: “What?! What did you say?!”

A: “Hmm? Nothing. I don’t know. What have you been doing this last half hour?”

By: NickPheas

NickPheas — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:36:00 +0000

Roll on Nexus 5, that’s what I say.

http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/ramez-naam/nexus-ramez-naam/

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:22:00 +0000

iMemory. Keep your memories in the cloud. What could possibly go wrong?

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:19:00 +0000

I was thinking of the “idiot box” of the 21st Century, social media.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:11:00 +0000

They already have games that you can control via your mind. Seriously: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1880784,00.html

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:09:00 +0000

Or even better ”Scientists do potentially useful things for people to the BRAINS OF LIVING PEOPLE”

If it were for the benefit of the rats, then fair play.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:57:00 +0000

“Thank you for agreeing to our terms and conditions. In line with this agreement, your long term memory has now been encrypted and monetized. You can access your memories by entering your PIN. Please have your credit card details to hand…”

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:52:00 +0000

Adverts straight from Google to your brain without the need for Glasses.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:51:00 +0000

Or to put it another way, ”Scientists do potentially useful things to the BRAINS OF LIVING ANIMALS”

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:50:00 +0000

That’s what Civilization is all about.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:48:00 +0000

No, that was “Snake” Plissken.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:54:00 +0000

Aaaaah – Dennis is a trojan horse! He must have a wired-up Ceti eel or two to slip into KJ-u’s ear – I am so watching the news carefully for the next 3 weeks.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:05:00 +0000

He’s besties with Dennis Rodman as of this week. With any luck, we’ll see some makeup and a new hair color.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:26:00 +0000

I hereby proclaim myself Great Ned Ludd Leader of UnwiredBrainz.org – proponents and zealots of free will and freedom.

Our brainz will not be eaten by teeth nor binary codez.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:20:00 +0000

I can’t wait for some 13 year olds to hack Kim Jong-un and make him dance Gangnam style whilst masturbating in front of the UN.

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:16:00 +0000

It’s a hardwired Rat King.

By: IamInnocent

IamInnocent — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:49:00 +0000

Too bad we can’t help but fuck about the simplest things in life.

By: Mr. Son

Mr. Son — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:20:00 +0000

I for one welcome our new telepathic rat overlords.

Seriously though, this was so awesome to hear that once I’d gone over the article, I immediately called up my family to share the news. Electronic telepathy! I’m looking forward to what new technologies emerge from this. Games controlled directly by the mind, art tools, communication systems, etc… It’s a marvel!

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:53:00 +0000

Am I the only one horrified by this story? “Scientists do amusing things to the BRAINS OF LIVING ANIMALS”

By: linusolas

linusolas — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:45:00 +0000

By: linusolas

linusolas — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:43:00 +0000

Irony indeed. Waves & waves of searing pain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-oE_RnU9bs

By: kmoser

kmoser — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:50:00 +0000

I believe our senses like hearing, touch and vision were the first brain-to-brain interfaces: one person does something, the other sees and/or hears it and responds accordingly. Voila! Brain-to-brain communication via sensory channels.

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:08:00 +0000

A story about mind melding above Spock socks. Irony.