Telepathy a reality, scientists successfully network rat brains.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2286107/The-incredible-mind-reading-implant-gives-rats-telepathic-powers.html#ixzz2MHe78izX

Group intelligence here we come :D

Researchers claim this is the first example of a 'brain-to-brain interface', raising the prospect that one day animals - and humans - could be able to read each other's minds

'In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.' 

He said it could even lead to one animal incorporating another's sense of 'self', although there are fears it could result in the development of mind control.

In the experiments, published in the journal Scientific Reports, microscopic electrodes implanted into the rats' brains enabled one animal to pass on instructions to the other, even though it was in a separate cage.

Maybe men will now understand women for once.TheWalkingGhost

Whoa, let's not get carried away. 

Maybe men will now understand women for once.TheWalkingGhost

good ... now we can find out if OJ simpson kill his wifehippiesanta

Human brains are more complex so I don't think it's quite as easy as you think.LJS9502_basic

This time next year we will be a hive mind! Guaranteed.

This seems to me like one of those sensationalized headlines that isn't going to go anywhere.

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Human brains are more complex so I don't think it's quite as easy as you think.tenaka2

This time next year we will be a hive mind! Guaranteed.

That's not telepathy. chrisrooR

[QUOTE="chrisrooR"]That's not telepathy. lightleggy

No, it's not.

"Telepathy (from the ancient Greek , tele meaning "distant" and , pathe or patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience")[3][4] is the transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. "

was he thinking about cheese? i bet it was cheese.

Poor rats.

Poor rats.

sune_Gem

yeah, I give them all a month at most.

[QUOTE="sune_Gem"]

Poor rats.

Necrifer

yeah, I give them all a month at most.

I'm not an animal rights nut or anything, but fiddling with the inner mechanics of their brains just seems wrong.

The only good thing this could lead to is brain swap pranks. Just imagine that! Plug it into your friends head while they're sleeping, and the next morning... BAM!... They're an elephant!

[QUOTE="Necrifer"]

[QUOTE="sune_Gem"]

Poor rats.

sune_Gem

yeah, I give them all a month at most.

I'm not an animal rights nut or anything, but fiddling with the inner mechanics of their brains just seems wrong.

The only good thing this could lead to is brain swap pranks. Just imagine that! Plug it into your friends head while they're sleeping, and the next morning... BAM!... They're an elephant!

And their furniture isn't where they left it!

That' s pretty cool. I could make others bow to my will. :twisted:

This seems to me like one of those sensationalized headlines that isn't going to go anywhere.

jim_shorts

[QUOTE="sune_Gem"]

[QUOTE="Necrifer"]

yeah, I give them all a month at most.

Necrifer

I'm not an animal rights nut or anything, but fiddling with the inner mechanics of their brains just seems wrong.

The only good thing this could lead to is brain swap pranks. Just imagine that! Plug it into your friends head while they're sleeping, and the next morning... BAM!... They're an elephant!

And their furniture isn't where they left it!

We already have working technology to do parts of this in the human brain, just not everything together.

Disabled people can write in a computer with their mind, through eletrodes planted in the brain.

And you can feed images to the brain of blind people, for example to cause them to actually see stuff.

We "just" need to put the 2 together.

For instance, sending a video stream to someone's brain of what I'm seeing! :lol:

This seems to me like one of those sensationalized headlines that isn't going to go anywhere.

jim_shorts

Was worried I was the only one in here.

We already have working technology to do parts of this in the human brain, just not everything together.

Disabled people can write in a computer with their mind, through eletrodes planted in the brain.

And you can feed images to the brain of blind people, for example to cause them to actually see stuff.

We "just" need to put the 2 together.

For instance, sending a video stream to someone's brain of what I'm seeing! :lol:

nunovlopes

When two minds connect, one will necessarily dominate the other. Someone entering your mind is the same concept as being raped, but much worse because it is the abuse of everything you are and ever will be, whereas traditional rape is just an abuse of the body. This is very disturbing technology and there is absolutely no good that can come from it. Anyone is favour of giving up his identity and independence of mind has no desire to live, to think, or to exist. There is no such thing as a "hive mind" - there is only one mind controlling a mass of mindless drones.Laihendi

WTF are you on about?

There are plenty of amazing possible uses, like extremely efficient voiceless communication between people. Or telepathy based remote controls. Like you just think about turning your lights on and they turn on. Think outside the box.

[QUOTE="nunovlopes"]

We already have working technology to do parts of this in the human brain, just not everything together.

Disabled people can write in a computer with their mind, through eletrodes planted in the brain.

And you can feed images to the brain of blind people, for example to cause them to actually see stuff.

We "just" need to put the 2 together.

For instance, sending a video stream to someone's brain of what I'm seeing! :lol:

comp_atkins

Very hard indeed. But clearly doable.

'In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.' 

tenaka2

My God! It would be, like, a coversation or meeting of sorts!

Fvck you give me telekinesis instead

When two minds connect, one will necessarily dominate the other. Someone entering your mind is the same concept as being raped, but much worse because it is the abuse of everything you are and ever will be, whereas traditional rape is just an abuse of the body. This is very disturbing technology and there is absolutely no good that can come from it. Anyone is favour of giving up his identity and independence of mind has no desire to live, to think, or to exist. There is no such thing as a "hive mind" - there is only one mind controlling a mass of mindless drones.Laihendi

Sometimes verbal communication isn't good enough.

[QUOTE="Laihendi"]When two minds connect, one will necessarily dominate the other. Someone entering your mind is the same concept as being raped, but much worse because it is the abuse of everything you are and ever will be, whereas traditional rape is just an abuse of the body. This is very disturbing technology and there is absolutely no good that can come from it. Anyone is favour of giving up his identity and independence of mind has no desire to live, to think, or to exist. There is no such thing as a "hive mind" - there is only one mind controlling a mass of mindless drones.nunovlopes

WTF are you on about?

There are plenty of amazing possible uses, like extremely efficient voiceless communication between people. Or telepathy based remote controls. Like you just think about turning your lights on and they turn on. Think outside the box.

[QUOTE="nunovlopes"]

[QUOTE="Laihendi"]When two minds connect, one will necessarily dominate the other. Someone entering your mind is the same concept as being raped, but much worse because it is the abuse of everything you are and ever will be, whereas traditional rape is just an abuse of the body. This is very disturbing technology and there is absolutely no good that can come from it. Anyone is favour of giving up his identity and independence of mind has no desire to live, to think, or to exist. There is no such thing as a "hive mind" - there is only one mind controlling a mass of mindless drones.Laihendi

WTF are you on about?

There are plenty of amazing possible uses, like extremely efficient voiceless communication between people. Or telepathy based remote controls. Like you just think about turning your lights on and they turn on. Think outside the box.

Pfff... It's common knowledge that the government has been doing this to us since the early 1920s. I'm immune because I wear an tin foil cap and I've read Atlas Shrugged 14 times. That's how I neutralized the NWO chip they implanted inside my brain when I was a newborn. 

[QUOTE="nunovlopes"]

[QUOTE="Laihendi"]When two minds connect, one will necessarily dominate the other. Someone entering your mind is the same concept as being raped, but much worse because it is the abuse of everything you are and ever will be, whereas traditional rape is just an abuse of the body. This is very disturbing technology and there is absolutely no good that can come from it. Anyone is favour of giving up his identity and independence of mind has no desire to live, to think, or to exist. There is no such thing as a "hive mind" - there is only one mind controlling a mass of mindless drones.Laihendi

WTF are you on about?

There are plenty of amazing possible uses, like extremely efficient voiceless communication between people. Or telepathy based remote controls. Like you just think about turning your lights on and they turn on. Think outside the box.

Maybe men will now understand women for once.TheWalkingGhost