Unlock Your Inner Rain Man by Electrically Zapping Your Brain. Imagine a creativity cap.
A device that would free you, if only momentarily, from your mindsets, from your prejudices, from the mental blocks to creativity. These words are emblazoned on the website Creativitycap.com, and they represent the vision of neuroscientist Allan Snyder. Snyder believes we all possess untapped powers of cognition, normally seen only in rare individuals called savants, and accessing them might take just a few jolts of electricity to the brain. It sounds like a Michael Crichton plot, but Snyder, of the University of Sydney, Australia, says he wouldn’t be surprised to see a prototype of the creativity cap within a couple of years.
Hayworth’s brain-preservation and mind-uploading protocol. Kurzweilai - Neuroscientist Kenneth Hayworth wants his 100 billion neurons and more than 100 trillion synapses to be encased in a block of transparent, amber-colored resin — before he dies of natural causes.
Hayworth’s brain-preservation and mind-uploading protocol Before becoming “very sick or very old,” he’ll opt for an “early ‘retirement’ to the future,” he writes. There will be a send-off party with friends and family, followed by a trip to the hospital. After Hayworth is placed under anesthesia, a cocktail of toxic chemicals will be perfused through his still-functioning vascular system, fixing every protein and lipid in his brain into place, preventing decay, and killing him instantly.Then he will be injected with heavy-metal staining solutions to make his cell membranes visible under a microscope. Chronicle Review - The Strange Neuroscience of Immortality Kenneth J. The goal of uploading a human mind into a computer is far beyond today's technology. The Vigilante: A Crowdfunded Film About Compulsory Technological “Mind Correction” Ben Goertzel and Jos Diaz Crowdfunding and transhumanism are a natural fit.
Crowdfunding provides a way to channel funds into worthy and exciting projects that might otherwise have trouble connecting with investors or donors. And transhumanists are a creative lot, never lacking for amazing new ideas and the energy to make them real, but often short of funds to enable execution. Kickstarter is the best known, but a number of intriguing crowdfunding sites have been popping up recently, such as RocketHub which has done a particularly great job of funding science projects. With this in mind, Humanity+, the organization that sponsors this magazine, is considering a venture into the crowdfunding arena itself in the near future -- but more about that another day. Their film is called The Vigilante, and its theme is one that has worried a lot of transhumanists over the last decades: What happens when mind modification technology is not only possible but starts to be considered obligatory? iBrain will let us know what’s on Stephen Hawking’s mind.
Last year, the folks over at NeuroVigil came up with a device called the iBrain – a brain scanner that can collect data from a person’s brain.
The iBrain was attached to Stephen Hawking who was then told to visualize making a fist with his right hand. Whatever went through his brain at that moment was then collected by the iBrain. As to what the data is, we don’t know now but it looks like we’ll be able to find out very soon. Dr. Philip Low of NeuroVigil recently announced to The Star, “We will present the data we were able to generate from Stephen Hawking.” . Brain wave meter shows off desire, concentration, sleepiness and stress levels. I guess it is more or less confirmed that chancing across a telepath would be rarer than you winning the state lottery.
Impossible even, some say. Well, good thing there is this thing called technology to even the odds out, where a research group at Keio University with Associate Professor Yasue Mitsukura at the helm have successfully developed a simple brain-wave meter that is said to be able to tell whether a person is showing interest, concentration, desire, stress, or sleepiness – and in real time to boot! Professor Mitsukura said, “The main feature of this device is that it measures and displays brain waves in real time. So it can measure how sleepy or aversive you are right now, and how much you’re concentrating.” Computer Used To Decode Brain Activity. Scientists believe they have found a way to read people's minds in what could be the first step towards helping brain-damaged patients who cannot speak. US researchers used a computer programme to decode brain activity and put it into words using a form of electronic telepathy.
Experts described the breakthrough, unveiled in the journal Public Library of Science Biology, as "remarkable" and believe it could ultimately be possible to decipher people's thoughts. Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley used the programme to predict what spoken words volunteers had listened to by analysing their brain activity. Previous research has shown imagined words activate similar brain areas as words that are said aloud, raising hopes they can also be uncovered by "reading" brain waves.
Professor Robert Knight, who worked on the study, said: "This is huge for patients who have damage to their speech mechanisms because of a stroke or Lou Gehrig's disease and can't speak. Cyborg rats tests could fix brain damage in humans.