Have you seen the movie "Listening"? / BCI telepathy

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• wjcroft Mount Shasta, CA

  August 2017

  If you are interested in actual scientists investigating EEG, meditation, and the paranormal, this institute fills the bill,

  
  

  http://noetic.org/research/overview
  

  http://noetic.org/profile/arnaud-delorme
  

  http://library.noetic.org/person/arnaud-delorme
  

  
  

  Arno is the genius behind EEGLAB.

  
  

  https://sccn.ucsd.edu/eeglab/index.php
  

  
  

  William

  
  
• hackr Maryland, USA

  August 2017

  @wjcroft That's awesome, thank you. I will definitely check it out in detail.
  
  Still, I feel like you're dodging the question, William! Science Fiction has it's place too. Did you see this flick? I'm just curious. I'm watching it now for the 2nd time.
  
  Cheers
  
• wjcroft Mount Shasta, CA

  August 2017

  Thanks.

  
  

  There is an entire field of Consciousness Hacking now, with meetups, conferences, Transformative Technologies, etc. I did watch the trailer for this film. And although the premise of tech assisted telepathy is intriguing (and already being pursued by Dr. Michael Persinger) -- this particular style of dystopia, action adventure, really takes a good potential into Hollywood formulas.

  
  

  I appreciate your mention of it, but would find sitting through something like this really agitating. The vibrations we take in do color our perceptions and view of the world. Is reality a friendly place with much to discover, learn, collaborate?

  
  

  http://www.cohack.life/
  

  
  

  https://www.google.com/search?q=consciousness+hacking+meetup
  

  
  

  http://transtech200.com/
  

  
  

  http://www.ttconf.org/
  

  
  

  https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+persinger+telepathy
  

  
  

  Cheers, William

  
  
• hackr Maryland, USA

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  @wjcroft I don't blame you. Sounds like you feel about EEG stories the way that Isaac Asimov felt about robotics stories, which is that the technology should never be cast in a bad light. I agree with that. Still, it helped get me more excited about BCI and EEG, so that's something, I guess. I guess the way I look at it is just that the technology was really cool and exciting, but the government (not the technology) was evil and abusive. Both of which I think are pretty reflective of reality.
  
  I found that movie after watching a BCI telepathy experiment by Berkeley students several years ago (it involved a simple computer game both participants were playing, with one thinking instructions to the other). Between those 2, my interested was very much primed.
  
• wjcroft Mount Shasta, CA

  August 2017

  Jason, here's a related article,

  
  

  https://www.fastcompany.com/3038320/this-video-game-proves-that-telepathy-is-possible
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
• wjcroft Mount Shasta, CA

  August 2017

  Paper,

  
  

  http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0111332
  

  
  

  Rao's home page at U W.

  
  

  https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~rao/
  
• hackr Maryland, USA

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  @wjcroft Awesome, awesome. Yes, the name Rao is very familiar. It seems you've correctly identified the one I was thinking of. I wanted to remember it as being Berkeley, but seems it was UW. I guess that's bias affecting my memory!
  
  This reminds me about MagStim machines and the other brain-input TMS devices. They are all crazy-expensive aren't they? I bet that you and your team of EE ninjas could come up with an affordable homebrew version of it for us to buy like you did with the EEG boards
  
• wjcroft Mount Shasta, CA

  August 2017

  There is a lot of inexpensive commercial or even DIY tDCS being done. Many forums for this. The TMS involves high voltages, currents and potentially lethal capacitor banks. :-) But nonetheless, eager hackers carry on...

  
  

  https://www.reddit.com/r/tDCS/comments/20jxeo/somebody_wanna_help_me_build_a_tms_device/
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
• hackr Maryland, USA

  August 2017

  @wjcroft That's really incredible. I was unaware of that. I surely hope not to fry my friends' brains while learning to make one, but I'm willing to let them take their chances. This is very cool!