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Originally posted by nixie_nox
Any idea how technology like this would be developed?
Originally posted by nixie_nox
I just had a question as to whether a technology could ever be developed to give these cababilities. Is it something you would want? I could see good military uses.
Any idea how technology like this would be developed?
a soldier would “think” a message to be transmitted and a computer-based speech recognition system would decode the EEG signals. The decoded thoughts, in essence translated brain waves, are transmitted using a system that points in the direction of the intended target.
On Thursday, the 12-pound, 32-inch monkey made a 200-pound, 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity.
She was in North Carolina, and the robot was in Japan.
Originally posted by pianopraze
Originally posted by nixie_nox
I just had a question as to whether a technology could ever be developed to give these cababilities. Is it something you would want? I could see good military uses.
Any idea how technology like this would be developed?
Yes, and it is being developed by DARPA right now.
They call it "synthetic telepathy"
Originally posted by Chakotay
We're going to need some relaxed UCMJ rules and easygoing commanders, man.
They're going to be hearing what grunts REALLY think when they get an order?!
Seriously, you could fly a helicopter with this tech 12 years ago.
Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they’ll read each other’s minds.
At least, that’s the hope of researchers at the Pentagon’s mad-science division Darpa. The agency’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $4 million to start up a program called Silent Talk. The goal is to “allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals.” That’s on top of the $4 million the Army handed out last year to the University of California to investigate the potential for computer-mediated telepathy.
Before being vocalized, speech exists as word-specific neural signals in the mind. Darpa wants to develop technology that would detect these signals of “pre-speech,” analyze them, and then transmit the statement to an intended interlocutor. Darpa plans to use EEG to read the brain waves. It’s a technique they’re also testing in a project to devise mind-reading binoculars that alert soldiers to threats faster the conscious mind can process them.
The project has three major goals, according to Darpa. First, try to map a person’s EEG patterns to his or her individual words. Then, see if those patterns are generalizable — if everyone has similar patterns. Last, “construct a fieldable pre-prototype that would decode the signal and transmit over a limited range.”
The military has been funding a handful of mind-tapping technology recently, and already have monkeys capable of telepathic limb control. Telepathy may also have advantages beyond covert battlefield chatter. Last year, the National Research Council and the Defense Intelligence Agency released a report suggesting that neuroscience might also be useful to “make the enemy obey our commands.” The first step, though, may be getting a grunt to obey his officer’s remotely-transmitted thoughts.
edit on 13-1-2011 by pianopraze because: source link