Two scientists from the University of Washington (USA) have approached telepathic communication by achieving the involuntary movement of the hand of one of them when receiving an order executed by the brain of the other. This advance gives rise to a future technology of bilateral brain connection that allows us to communicate without saying a word.
Researchers Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco went into separate rooms and devised a shooting game in which they had to shoot down a pirate ship that was moving across the screen. One of them was in front of the game in one of the rooms and had to execute all the movements except the one to shoot, since it was the other scientist who had to press that key from the other room.
When Rao imagined the action of shooting, the encephalographic recording translated the variation of brain waves into a command that he sent to the machine connected to Rocco's brain, which in turn generated a nerve impulse that moved his hand. Surprisingly, Rocco's hand acted automatonically on instructions from Rao's brain , which managed to bring the ship down half the time.
After having mastered the brain control of machines, the human being advances towards the transmission of information between people, although for the moment only the mental communication of simple motor tasks is feasible.
