21st-century telekenisis?

I ran across an amazing article bringing light to new developments in technology enablers for disabled people. Doctors map out brain activity as patients “think about” performing a certain function: moving an arm, for instance. After isolating the brain area patients use for various functions, they can then implant electrodes into those areas of the brain to monitor when the brain is active in that area, and set up machines or computers to perform the requested task.

I ran across an amazing article bringing light to new developments in technology enablers for disabled people. Doctors map out brain activity as patients “think about” performing a certain function: moving an arm, for instance. After isolating the brain area patients use for various functions, they can then implant electrodes into those areas of the brain to monitor when the brain is active in that area, and set up machines or computers to perform the requested task.

It’s misleading to say such technologies “read minds” … What happens is you provide the brain with the opportunity to develop a new skill.

–Dr. Jonathan Wolpaw

I still think it’s an amazing advance. We now know enough about brain activity to be able to map certain types of activity to actions outside the body. Mind over matter, indeed! Although I think that, as mentioned at the bottom of the article, outside-the-brain monitoring may eventually be as effective as implants at reducing thought to action, for the time being this is simply an awesome advance towards enabling handicapped people to live a more normal life.

Now that we can translate some thoughts into action, the next step is to translate actions into a direct-feed into my brain, so that I can learn Kung-Fu in seconds instead of a lifetime…

6 thoughts on “21st-century telekenisis?”

  1. my brain

    If only they could trick my brain into thinking that packing and cleaning is fun….–

    Christy

  2. The Power of Everything

    With all honesty, your ideas touch gently upon the surface of a few methods I have been experimenting with. First of all, I have no doubt that your memory can be accessed through lucid dreaming. Learning your Shaolin Kung Fu maybe just as easy as one night. For instance, you could buy three training movies, each 3 hours long. One for beginners, one for middle, and one advanced. Thats one a day to watch. Each night, as time is meaningless in lucid dreams and the entire works othe mind are accessable, you could study that beginner’s tape for years on end in a single night. Then study the next, and the next. Not to mention every word you looked up in the Spanish dictionary as a high school student is accessable as well. In one night, you could very well memorize the entire spanish langauge, study Shaolin Kung Fu, work out, sleep, eat, own a mansion for years, and accomplish many feats of sky diving. Look into Lucid Dreaming for a way out of this world every night.

    2. Ad Hominem

      I normaly don’t resort to ad hominem arguments but there’s one that applies here. You are too stupid to even argue with.

      ——– Visit my blog, eh! The Murphy Maphia

      1. Wait, your ad hominem

        Wait, your ad hominem argument has confused me. Who’s too stupid? The person who posted about Lucid Dreaming, or the one who posted a response?

        Arthur Rowan Brother Katana of Reasoned Discussion Rebel Leader and Dance Instructor for the Unitarian Jihad

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