Scientists demonstrate direct brain-to-brain communication in humans (hive mind)

[C C]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...in-humans/

EXCERPT: . . . In a new study, technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directly linking the activity of human brains. Electrical activity from the brains of a pair of human subjects was transmitted to the brain of a third individual in the form of magnetic signals, which conveyed an instruction to perform a task in a particular manner. This study opens the door to extraordinary new means of human collaboration while, at the same time, blurring fundamental notions about individual identity and autonomy in disconcerting ways.

Direct brain-to-brain communication has been a subject of intense interest for many years, driven by motives as diverse as futurist enthusiasm and military exigency. In his book Beyond Boundaries one of the leaders in the field, Miguel Nicolelis, described the merging of human brain activity as the future of humanity, the next stage in our species’ evolution. ... He has already conducted a study in which he linked together the brains of several rats using complex implanted electrodes known as brain-to-brain interfaces. Nicolelis and his co-authors described this achievement as the first “organic computer” with living brains tethered together as if they were so many microprocessors. The animals in this network learned to synchronize the electrical activity of their nerve cells to the same extent as those in a single brain. The networked brains were tested for things such as their ability to discriminate between two different patterns of electrical stimuli, and they routinely outperformed individual animals.

If networked rat brains are “smarter” than a single animal, imagine the capabilities of a biological supercomputer of networked human brains. Such a network could enable people to work across language barriers. It could provide those whose ability to communicate is impaired with a new means of doing so. Moreover, if the rat study is correct, networking human brains might enhance performance. Could such a network be a faster, more efficient and smarter way of working together? The new paper addressed some of these questions by linking together the brain activity of a small network of humans... (MORE - details)

[stryder]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...in-humans/

EXCERPT: . . . In a new study, technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directly linking the activity of human brains. Electrical activity from the brains of a pair of human subjects was transmitted to the brain of a third individual in the form of magnetic signals, which conveyed an instruction to perform a task in a particular manner. This study opens the door to extraordinary new means of human collaboration while, at the same time, blurring fundamental notions about individual identity and autonomy in disconcerting ways.

Direct brain-to-brain communication has been a subject of intense interest for many years, driven by motives as diverse as futurist enthusiasm and military exigency. In his book Beyond Boundaries one of the leaders in the field, Miguel Nicolelis, described the merging of human brain activity as the future of humanity, the next stage in our species’ evolution. ... He has already conducted a study in which he linked together the brains of several rats using complex implanted electrodes known as brain-to-brain interfaces. Nicolelis and his co-authors described this achievement as the first “organic computer” with living brains tethered together as if they were so many microprocessors. The animals in this network learned to synchronize the electrical activity of their nerve cells to the same extent as those in a single brain. The networked brains were tested for things such as their ability to discriminate between two different patterns of electrical stimuli, and they routinely outperformed individual animals.

If networked rat brains are “smarter” than a single animal, imagine the capabilities of a biological supercomputer of networked human brains. Such a network could enable people to work across language barriers. It could provide those whose ability to communicate is impaired with a new means of doing so. Moreover, if the rat study is correct, networking human brains might enhance performance. Could such a network be a faster, more efficient and smarter way of working together? The new paper addressed some of these questions by linking together the brain activity of a small network of humans... (MORE - details)

The main problem with this is the utopiac envisionment as opposed to what actually goes on. Not every persons mind is the same, not just in their level of intelligence but their social quota. For instance to some their internal necessity to stare at the anatomy of someone of the opposite gender is far beyond what is socially acceptable. So you could have say a brainiac guinea pig connected to a pervert (just) pig craving boobs, which in turn would lead them to torturing each other or a worse case scenario the survivability of the worst possible traits just because they are the stronger fueled by desire and a poor understanding of social etiquette.

While the example is just a simple one, there are far greater ramifications for mind control where it's not just down to the choice of the rich elitists but down to who controls the system with the most forceful manner.

(These studies and direction is only just coming to light now as such studies have been illegally done through a mixture of ethos and hubris. The problem with the illegal studies is they could not be submitted for peer review, which means while the actually research is actually far further along than people imagine, they are having to go back and take the baby steps they were suppose to have already taken to bring it to the table, while of course dodging the scrutiny of previous wrongdoing that they have been doing for over two decades.)