Study Shows Direct Brain Interface Between Humans

vinces99 writes University of Washington researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people as part of a scientific study following the team's initial demonstration a year ago. In the newly published study, which involved six people, researchers were able to transmit the signals from one person's brain over the Internet and use these signals to control the hand motions of another person within a split second of sending that signal.

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That's Kinda Creepy...

[Stormy Dragon]

Is the "receiver" subjectively aware that the decision to move their hand was imposed from outside, or did it seem like their own spontaneous decisions? (Obviously they're rationally aware it's imposed since they have a giant machine strapped to their head, but what does it "feel like" from inside their mind?)

Person-to-person telepathy is all well and good

[mark-t]

But what I'd really like to control just by thinking about it is my computer. No more wrist RSI...

Also, I can think at least 10 times faster than I can type... so I could get more stuff done in the same amount of time.