This blog post supports www.blissplanet.com, but it may create negative opinion due to patriotism that many people do not have for nature, earth and environment. So, please let me know if you agree or disagree.
“Although still largely experimental, devices that decipher brain signals are advancing quickly and allowing some fully paralyzed people to interact with the world Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can trap the mind inside an immobile body. It destroys the nerves that control muscles, eventually leaving patients without the ability to speak or even flick their eyes to one side. In the past few years, however, researchers have started to equip a few such “locked-in” patients, including those paralyzed by stroke or other diseases, with communication devices that unlock their minds.
For decades, science-fiction writers have envisioned computers that communicate directly with the brain. Now a rapidly expanding clique of researchers is making it a reality. A few laboratories started developing these so-called brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in the 1980s and have been refining them since then (Science, 29 October 1999, p. 888). Now several dozen teams have entered the field. Together they’re improving upon early BCI models and coming up with new ways to read brain signals. According to BCI pioneer Jonathan Wolpaw of the Wadsworth Center, part of the New York State Department of Health in Albany, “it’s a very exciting time; a lot of people are getting involved.”
Most BCIs read brain waves, the electrical impulses created by neural activity that can be detected–albeit fuzzily–through the scalp. By diligently controlling their mental activity, patients can choose letters to spell words, guide a cursor, or direct crude robots. But a rival circle of scientists is rapidly advancing a type of BCI that is implanted inside the brain. Such devices tap into the more detailed neural signals relayed by individual neurons. The most sophisticated of these implanted BCIs have recently enabled monkeys to play video games and even manipulate robotic arms. Whether the implanted devices will actually lead to more versatile and workable BCIs than the external type is a matter of fierce debate.
In the past few years, brain-wave BCI technologies have been advancing rapidly, providing faster spelling, better cursor control, and headway into prosthetics, environmental-control devices, and smart wheelchairs. The advances are fueled in part by cheaper and more sophisticated computer hardware and software, which has given BCI researchers access to portable machines that perform complex mathematical manipulations on the fly. Good old-fashioned funding helps, too: The National Institutes of Health awarded $3.3 million in late 2002 to a partnership headed by the Wadsworth group to further develop software that can test several BCI systems to see which is best for a patient. Researchers can also use the software to build and test their own brain-tapping technologies.”
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The basic framework for BCI2000 is now complete, and Wolpaw expects details to be published soon. It has four easily adaptable modules that handle the four essential functions of a BCI. One takes the raw brain signal, amplifies it, and encodes it digitally. Another extracts the desired features of the brain signal, such as a mu rhythm or P300 signal, and translates that signal into a command, such as movement of a cursor in a certain direction. The third controls a device, say, one that navigates the Internet or operates a prosthetic arm. And the fourth allows a user to start and stop the BCI and to specify details, such as the speed, of its operation.
The software has already had an impact on the field. In spring 2002, South Florida’s Donchin needed to upgrade his BCI, which was incompatible with state-of-the-art PCs, so he could start testing disabled patients. Donchin met with Wolpaw and Schalk at a BCI conference in Rensselaerville, New York, in June 2002 and described his predicament. Schalk volunteered to do the necessary programming on BCI2000. Within 2 weeks, Schalk managed to get Donchin’s BCI up and running, enabling Donchin to bring it to New York City to test it on his first patient (this author’s father) in September.
Georgia State’s Moore and her colleagues are using BCI2000 to develop an environmental-control system that allows a user to turn on and off lights, a television set, and a radio with brain waves. They’ve also built a communication system in which a person can select words from a list of nouns, verbs, and objects, and that will predict words and even conversations, potentially providing faster communication than traditional spellers allow. Their Web browser causes a cursor to hop from one Web link to the next in response to altered brain signals.
So far these prototype applications have been largely tested on simulated brain signals, but Moore has just started testing them on healthy volunteers and will soon include patients with spinal cord injuries or early-stage ALS. Eventually, Moore plans to run all of these applications on a laptop mounted to a smart wheelchair under development that will also be controlled by brain waves.
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The other point is that it can create opinions, change them, make one hate or love.
For example, one may start loving China or Hate it based on this experiment. The same is true for Musical and any other religion, community, civilizations and far more that words do not allow.
It has brought all human values, ethics and philosophical thinking to collapse in the laboratories. The terrorism in the world, wars, and all that we see, hear or view in media is just hiding this grave experimentation leading to extinction of human wisdom.
We need to pay attention to it lest it is too late. Please pray or seek that this global and thus universal suffering must come to an end as soon as possible. Thanks!
Author: Dr. Harmander Singh
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