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Scientists Prove That Telepathic Communication Is Within Reach
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Smithsonian Magazine
Posted: January 11th, 2015
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientists-prove-th...
In a recent experiment, a person in India said hola and ciao to three other people in France. Today, the Web, smartphones and international calling might make that not seem like an impressive feat, but it was. The greetings were not spoken, typed or texted. The communication in question happened between the brains of a set of study subjects, marking one of the first instances of brain-to-brain communication on record. The team, whose members come from Barcelona-based research institute Starlab, French firm Axilum Robotics and Harvard Medical School, published its findings earlier this month in the journal PLOS One. Study co-author Alvaro Pascual-Leone ... hopes this and forthcoming research in the field will one day provide a new communication pathway for patients who might not be able to speak. We want to improve the ways people can communicate in the face of limitations those who might not be able to speak or have sensory impairments, he says. Can we work around those limitations and communicate with another person or a computer? Pascual-Leones experiment was successful the correspondents neither spoke, nor typed, nor even looked at one another. But he freely concedes that the test was more a proof of concept than anything else, and the technique still has a long way to go. Brain-to-brain communication could find applications across many disciplines. At the same time, Pascual-Leone cautions that scientists must also keep in mind the ethics of telepathy.
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