Uploading Skills into Human Brain Makes ‘The Matrix’ a Possible Reality





Susanne.Posel-Headline.News.Official- hrl.pilot.upload.skills.into.human.brain.02_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals

 

Susanne.Posel-Headline.News.Official- hrl.pilot.upload.skills.into.human.brain.01_occupycorporatismHRL Laboratories has found a new way to teach humans skills via a technique called brain interface. HRL describes it as a “low-current electrical brain stimulation can modulate the learning of complex real-world skills.”

The tech company published their research on the monitoring of brain waves of commercial and military pilots; showing that specific signals in the brain correspond to those skills. Having the pilots use a flight simulator prompted the electrical stimulations which in turn pointed to the lack of need for training, but rather the “tickling” of the part of the brain where these signals could be translated into learned skills.

Matthew Phillips, neurocognitive systems research scientist for HRL, explained : “Our system is one of the first of its kind. It’s a brain stimulation system. It sounds kind of sci-fi, but there’s large scientific basis for the development of our system. The specific task we were looking at was piloting an aircraft, which requires a synergy of both cognitive and motor performance.

Phillip continued: “When you learn something, your brain physically changes. Connections are made and strengthened in a process called neuro-plasticity. It turns out that certain functions of the brain, like speech and memory, are located in very specific regions of the brain, about the size of your pinky.”

In essence, the HRL technique “actually targets those changes to specific regions of the brain as you learn.” Phillip claims “the method itself is actually quite old. In fact, the ancient Egyptians 4,000 years ago used electric fish to stimulate and reduce pain.”

While each human brain is slightly different, when humans perform tasks, “brain stimulation seems to be particularly effective at actually improving learning.”

Adventures into creating a real Johnny Mnemonic have yielded interesting results.

Earlier this year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced plans to implant a computer chip into the brains of soldiers in order to enable them to communicate with computers – directly.

Now the problem with current technology is that brain-to-computer interfacing is comparable to “2 supercomputers trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem”. In order to overcome this hurdle, DARPA created the Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) which is being marketed as the closest thing to implanting digital data into a living human neural net that has not been confirmed to successfully work.

DARPA explains that NESD “aims to develop an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world. The interface would serve as a translator, converting between the electrochemical language used by neurons in the brain and the ones and zeros that constitute the language of information technology.”

NESD is tasked with creating the biocompatible device about 1 cubic centimeter in size; however the program will be responsible for simultaneous complimentary projects as well such as developing technology “that could compensate for deficits in sight or hearing by feeding digital auditory or visual information into the brain at a resolution and experiential quality far higher than is possible with current [capabilities].”

With all the hype surrounding this announcement, it seems overblown because DARPA has been tinkering with implants and human brains for a while now.


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