Noninvasive brain to brain interface

[Ex-User (5841)]

@Cognisant, you're doing it wrong...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...riment-human-brain-rodent-tail_n_3046860.html

"Dogs have an incredible sense of smell that humans don't have. If somehow there was a way to link up olfactory sensation, we could definitely benefit by enhancing our capabilities," Yoo said.


Brain-to-brain interfaces could also link people together. "You could imagine delivering any [thoughts] you want to another person, or do the same thing with many people, or have many people do the same thing to you," Yoo added. "You could imagine people feeling and deciding collectively, which makes me think of the Borg in Star Trek."

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

Any guesses how long before we start transmitting complex visuals/orgasms/happiness?

Good model organisms for these sorts of studies are slime molds and mushrooms. The human nervous system is surprisingly like a mycelium:

Spoiler

 

[Cognisant]

Excuse me what do you mean doing it wrong?

This is old news to me.

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

Excuse me what do you mean doing it wrong?

This is old news to me.

No metal required?

And by all means, gimme some links sir!

 

[Nezaros]

This is at once incredible and terrifying.

 

[Cognisant]

No metal required?

Heresy most foul!

I've posted this video before and the monkey one before that.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt8QCx3BCo

I was talking about BCIs before there was anything to link to

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

Heresy most foul!

The key word was "required"...

I was talking about BCIs before there was anything to link to

So how long until orgasm transmission?

 

[Cognisant]

Heresy is heresy.

So how long until orgasm transmission?

It's already possible.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/02/41682

You can't feel another's orgasm yet (your brain would have trouble mapping the data to your mental body map) but with an EEG and some wireless modules you could trigger orgasms in others with your orgasms.

 

[Agent Intellect]

Anyone ever read Derek Parfitt's "Reason's and Persons"? I wonder how brain interfacing and brain splicing would feel, subjectively speaking?

A book I'm currently re-writing (sometimes) explores this idea...

 

[Hawkeye]

To increase sense of smell, simply wet your nose. This is why dogs noses are usually wet.