I am most curious as to what happens if you just went and set up a basic link between two people. Pick up and send signals between brains with something like a cross between one of those nifty move-a-mouse-with-your-brain gizmos (I’m sure it has a more sophisticated name I’m not aware of) and a hearing implant. Has anyone actually tried that before? I have no idea if it actually works like that. I hope it does, because that sounds like a crazy idea I’d actually want to volunteer for. Low bandwidth seems better than no bandwidth at all.
… That makes me wonder if, more within the realm of definite possibility, anyone’s ever thought of making a blue-tooth enabled hearing implant. Maybe you could stick your “ear” somewhere else and eavesdrop. Or have multiple ears. Could your brain learn how to interpret direct 5-point surround sound?
EDIT: OKAY, just read up some and realized that is DEFINITELY not how hearing implants work. I thought they were more brain-direct. Ah well, a cochlear mp3 player would still be cool in mono :-)
Communication by Controlled Atmospheric Vibrations? Nonsense! Preposterous! What kind of backwards society could function on something like that?
Imagine a world of beings communicating by air vibrations… I mean really—EVERYTHING causes air vibrations, how would you sort out actual communications from everything else? Imagine the kind of brain specialization you’d need just to make sense of anything! And how easily blocked! You could be separated from communication with all your hivemates by the flimsiest of barriers! It sends me into a panic just thinking about it. (shudder)
((Yeah, take joy in the merely real. I get where you’re coming from, but you can’t deny that there’s a significant difference in the directness of the communication. So much information gets lost in playing telephone.))
I am most curious as to what happens if you just went and set up a basic link between two people. Pick up and send signals between brains with something like a cross between one of those nifty move-a-mouse-with-your-brain gizmos (I’m sure it has a more sophisticated name I’m not aware of) and a hearing implant. Has anyone actually tried that before? I have no idea if it actually works like that. I hope it does, because that sounds like a crazy idea I’d actually want to volunteer for. Low bandwidth seems better than no bandwidth at all.
… That makes me wonder if, more within the realm of definite possibility, anyone’s ever thought of making a blue-tooth enabled hearing implant. Maybe you could stick your “ear” somewhere else and eavesdrop. Or have multiple ears. Could your brain learn how to interpret direct 5-point surround sound?
EDIT: OKAY, just read up some and realized that is DEFINITELY not how hearing implants work. I thought they were more brain-direct. Ah well, a cochlear mp3 player would still be cool in mono :-)
If only humans could somehow transmit information with each other by making and receiving sounds…
The interesting part of this isn’t that two brains are communicating, it’s that they are doing it along unusual interface boundaries.
Communication by Controlled Atmospheric Vibrations? Nonsense! Preposterous! What kind of backwards society could function on something like that?
Imagine a world of beings communicating by air vibrations… I mean really—EVERYTHING causes air vibrations, how would you sort out actual communications from everything else? Imagine the kind of brain specialization you’d need just to make sense of anything! And how easily blocked! You could be separated from communication with all your hivemates by the flimsiest of barriers! It sends me into a panic just thinking about it. (shudder)
((Yeah, take joy in the merely real. I get where you’re coming from, but you can’t deny that there’s a significant difference in the directness of the communication. So much information gets lost in playing telephone.))