By Sebastian Anthony -
Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is one of the most important steps towards BBIs that allow for telepathic links between two or more humans — which is a good thing in the case of friends and family, but terrifying if you stop to think about the nefarious possibilities of a fascist dictatorship with mind control tech.
In recent years there have been huge advances in the field of brain-computer interfaces, where your thoughts are detected and “understood” by a sensor attached to a computer, but relatively little work has been done in the opposite direction (computer-brain interfaces).
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Ref: Non-Invasive Brain-to-Brain Interface (BBI): Establishing Functional Links between Two Brains. PLOS ONE (2013) | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0060410
Brain to brain device allows humans to send thoughts to animals
