Could Telepathy Exist?
A brief tale on the possibilities of brain-to-brain communication, with a few cats. SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the...
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Our story begins in California in the late 90s, where a group of scientists got a group of cats to watch a movie. The cats had electrodes attached to the visual areas of their brains. The researchers saw how the cats experienced the outside world by hacking into and recording what their brain cells were communicating. With these bits of information they rebuilt images from the movies - as seen by the cats. In this case, tree trunks, branches and a man’s face. Understanding how our brains encode information - and how we can crack the code - could make “super powers” like telepathy a reality. While it seems like science fiction, telepathy or mind reading has a scientific name - Brain-to-Brain Communication. Technically it’s not directly brain to bra...
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Our story begins in California in the late 90s, where a group of scientists got a group of cats to watch a movie. The cats had electrodes attached to the visual areas of their brains. The researchers saw how the cats experienced the outside world by hacking into and recording what their brain cells were communicating. With these bits of information they rebuilt images from the movies - as seen by the cats. In this case, tree trunks, branches and a man’s face. Understanding how our brains encode information - and how we can crack the code - could make “super powers” like telepathy a reality. While it seems like science fiction, telepathy or mind reading has a scientific name - Brain-to-Brain Communication. Technically it’s not directly brain to bra...
