Y2KPro could flip hamburgers via thought alone...

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Remote control of brains may indeed be possible, though the article does not state whether tinfoil would be effective in blocking incoming signals...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_375000/375521.stmPartial Snip

Certainly humans walking by thought power alone is a big step on from rats obtaining water via the same technique, but it appears to be natural progression - something that will happen before long.

However it is not merely walking that can be accomplished. Essentially, as long as an achievement is physically possible then there is no reason why we cannot learn to do all sorts of things just by thinking about them.

Driving a car, making a cup of coffee and operating a computer are obvious examples, although anything that requires movement and can be automated is fair game - and that means just about everything.

Two-way electrode street

It must be remembered though that electrode links can quite easily be, and almost certainly are, bi-directional. So whilst messages can be transmitted from a brain in order to shake a leg or put the kettle on, signals can also be sent into the brain, either from another person or from a computer.

For a rat this could mean that the creature is directed, by remote control, to a distant target, a passive being unable to overpower external drivers taking it in a direction not of its choosing.

Surely this couldn't happen to humans. Surely our brains cannot be conned into thinking in a certain way and to send out signals that cause us to do something that is beyond our control?

The simple fact is that, if Chapin's experiment shows us anything, it is that the remote control of humans is eminently possible. Whilst technological advance, of this nature, is very exciting in the short term, we must be aware of some of the pitfalls that might occur if we are not careful.



-- Count Vronsky (vronsky@anna.lit), November 08, 1999

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I'm glad to see you've finally come to appreciate my supernatural powers...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), November 08, 1999.

Quick! Some one grab him, while I call the vet! Er..I mean the doctor! And watch out for that Tin foil Nepolean's hat he's wearing! It can put out an eye!

Y2K Pro and superior intellect? Oh come on now Y2k....You can just barely reconize hamburger from ground up Kangaroo meat ( I hope).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), November 08, 1999.


Yes, but one has to have thought processes to begin with. . .

-- Wait (a@min.ute), November 08, 1999.

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