Submitted by Bruce Totolos on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 07:37
A brain-to-brain interface (BTBI) has now been successfully developed by a team of researchers from the Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina. The team told that brains of rats were electronically linked, which allowed them to communicate discoveries from one mind to the other directly.
The aim behind the development of the interface was to realize sharing motor as well as sensory information in real time. And the development simply took the shared mammalian intelligence concept a step forward from theambit of fantasy.
It has been noted that a collective consciousness can be much more effective than an individual consciousness. The concept has been tested on ants, bees, termites and wasps. They all have shown extraordinary potential while working together.
Cortical microelectrode arrays were fitted into the two rats' brains and Intra-cortical microstimulation (ICMS) was conducted via the same. It was found that the animals could transmit information instantaneously. A trained "encoder" rat's learned information helped the untrained "decoder" rat to answer the puzzles.
Scientists are of the belief since long that such a concept could prove much powerful amongst humans. The study findings have raised their hopes. They cited an instance that one child would likely need to go to school and would transfer any learned information to the rest.
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