tech world 1.0

Brain Computer Interface 

OK! I'm back with another interesting and rather valuable story. Brain computer interface. Biology and technology are progressing in rapid synergy with one another, bringing about startling advances in fields ranging from medicine to neuroscience to computing. Imagine plugging a USB to your head and uploading millions of information known to mankind. Interesting isn't it? This isn't something new to somebody familiar with "Doctor Who" the TV series. Does these science fiction ever comes to life? the answer is yes! These days,  Scientists, futurists and transhumanists are already started gathering research data to discuss and improve how these technologies are paving a path toward digital immortality. Anyway, will this incredible technology bring humanity closer to the technical singularity, the point at which technology will exceed human brainpower? or will this be the end of Humanity?  

Even though, this rough question of life and death exists, lets get to know how deep we already went in this matter. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) or brain-machine interfaces, have progressed significantly in recent years. Some BCIs aim to restore mobility to people who are paralyzed by spinal cord injury, stroke or brain disease. Others aim to restore senses like sight or hearing. Researchers are even developing BCIs now to restore memory.   

BCIs implanted in the brain's motor areas can record the electrical signals that represent particular movements. A computer decodes the signals and uses them to control a computer cursor or prosthetic limb. At the Global Future congress, engineers José Carmena and Michel Maharbiz of the University of California, Berkeley described their work to create stable, long-lasting, completely wireless BCIs.   

Also at the conference, neural engineer Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles spoke about developing a memory prosthesis. The device would replace part of the brain's hippocampus, where short-term memory is converted to long-term memory. So far Berger has had success in rats and monkeys, and he's currently testing the device in humans.  

That means the technology of the brain computer interface do exist. not a fiction.  

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Knife Through the Brain - Truly strange 1.0

Someone call Chicken Little and tell him to stay inside. No, the sky itself isn’t falling, but if knives are dropping through the atmosphere like rain drops, none of us can be too careful. Just ask Xiao Yunzhi of Guangyuan, China, who took a 5” knife to the side of the head while walking down the street. he survived being hit by a knife that fell from an eighth-floor balcony and pierced his skull, according to news reports. This unusual story — reported last week by the U.K. online newspaper The Telegraph— may seem far-fetched, but surviving a knife through the head is possible, said Dr. Richard Temes, director of the Center for Neurocritical Care at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. 

How is this even possible? the ex-ray shows that the knife is gone right through his head.

In 2011, another man had a knife buried in his head for 4 years.A man who went to the doctor complaining of a headache was shocked to discover he'd had a 4in knife blade stuck in his brain for more than four years. Li Fu from Yunnan Province, China, was stabbed during a robbery in 2006, and the blade of the knife had lodged in his cranium. But despite receiving treatment for his injuries, doctors failed to notice the knife buried deep in the 37-year-old's skull. There must be something with these Chinese people, when it comes to surviving knife attacks. Is the cranium structure of Chinese men different so that they can suvive? ir Is this a big coincidence. or does nothing happens when a knife goes through the brain but through unwanted, and unimportant parts. Probably... i'll be back with more Truly strange news.... stay tuned

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Supernatural 1.0

So, this topic we are about to discuss is kind of about the supernatural and beyond our reach. Many people around the world, demands that the supernatural out of body experiences do exist. When talking of the out of body experiences, I have my own story. Recently, my grandpa got ill and had to do a serious operation. When he was successfully recovered from his surgery, He personally told me that he saw him laying on the operating table and also saw doctors doing the surgery. So, I thought, this is a pretty good opportunity for me to investigate the supernatural. 

 The human mind effortlessly constructs the feeling of inhabiting a body, and now scientists are figuring out how the brain produces that experience. That will be so much remarkable because, imagine if you can create any such experience, It will be just like "DIVERGENT" the movie. Just like the way they do the 'Aptitude test'. Anyway, back to the topic. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience , highlighted that the brain regions are active when a person has an out-of-body experience. Recent studies have shown that the brain incorporates information from multiple senses and the first-person visual perspective to create a sense of body ownership. But it's still unclear how the brain perceives the body's location in space.  

which has not yet been published in a scientific journal, participants lay inside an MRI scanner while wearing a head-mounted display that showed a first-person camera view of another person's body lying in a corner of the scanner room, with their head either parallel to a wall or perpendicular to it. Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden repeatedly touched each participant with an object while simultaneously touching the body shown in the camera view. This gave participants the illusion that the body in the camera view belonged to them. 

To heighten the illusion, the researchers used a knife to threaten the body in the camera, and measured the participants' skin conductance, or ability to conduct electricity. surprisingly, the results suggests that, the brain relies on a complex interplay of information from different senses to produce the experience of being inside of a body — even when it's someone else's. 

But, I still have to believe that it's still not only these senses, but also the something other than it. If the Law of conservation of energy is true, and because, the body we have is energy. it should convert to another form. a form which we can't see.  

 We will talk about this more on Supernatural 2.0. Please comment what you think! every opinion counts..

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