Cognitive Neuroscience
What are some of the challenges of creating a thought transfer device?
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Discovery Channel
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Discovery Channel
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First there's the obvious technical challenge of creating a gadget that can read and interpret human thoughts. To communicate through thinking, we'll need devices that can detect our thoughts, send them to the right person's device and have those thoughts translated and inserted into the recipient's brain. Just using such a device might require years of training. Translating thoughts literally might not work at all -- instead, we may need to communicate concepts rather than concrete language. And then there's the issue of privacy -- any thought communication system would need to be secure to prevent us from broadcasting our thoughts to everyone around us.
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