Telepathy Now Possible Thanks To Modern Technology

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Scientists from the University of Washington have demonstrated the use of a telepathy machine that linked up two people and allowed them to communicate without direct verbal and visual contact, Digital Journal reported.

The telepathy machine, or specifically an electroencephalography machine, was able to send and receive thought-messages that transferred commands and directed their actions. It was able to send and receive those messages almost as quickly as the thought itself was made.

In the experiment, one person was asked to direct a thought which is then transmitted to another person. The second person then physically carried out what the first person thought or commanded. All this was done with the two individuals placed in separate buildings half a mile apart.

The experiment was then performed another time by three other pairs of individuals.

The participants hooked up to the electroencephalography machine were asked to perform the experiment via a video game where they needed to defend a castle using cannons, according to The Huffington Post.

The sender would relay message "Fire," which the receiver had to execute once commanded. The experiment yielded a 25 to 83 percent success rate, with the lower numbers attributed to the times the receive failed to press the button properly.

Andrea Stocco, the co-author of the study and a psychology professor at the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, released a university statement, saying, "The new study brings our brain-to-brain interfacing paradigm from an initial demonstration to something that is closer to a deliverable technology."

The experiment is the first to demonstrate that humans have the capability to interface directly with other humans, according to Mic.

There is the chance that humans will be able to interact with machines and other individuals using only their minds. The University of Washington researchers are also interested if this meant there was the possibility that knowledge could be transferred between brains, Mic further reported.

In a video from the University of the Washington, Stocco also expressed the possibility of improving the machine to perform therapeutic applications.

"We believe that it would be worth exploring the idea that you can help the brain's recovery process by literally transmitting the waves of a healthy brain to the brain that has been damaged," Stocco said in the video.

Chantel Prat, a researched from the same university as Stocco, also sent an email to Huffington Post, and said, "This paradigm offers a wide opportunity for developing protocols for interacting with or putting information into a human brain. This technology could eventually be used to patch what is missing or lost in a brain-damaged individual."