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Practical Telepathy
John Ashmead
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You must remember this
• A brief history of telepathy
• Mind is what brain does
• What is “telepathy”?
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A brief history of Telepathy
• Mentalism
• Slan
• Rhine
• Side-band information
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Mentalism
• Cartesian Dualism
• Astral Plane
• Brain is a house, Mind is just a renter
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Slan
• Like a broad band receiver
• Tendrils (like antennae)
• Scares neighbors
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Rhine & Zener cards
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Smile when you say that!
• Micro expressions
• Reflection of light from face
• Botox
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Mind is what brain does
• Phrenology
• Spike in the head
• Neurology
• The Penfield homonculus
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Things that go Bump in the Head
• Phrenology
• One lobe/one function?
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Spike in the head
• Iron bar rammed thru his head
• Didn’t kill
• But made a profound change in behavior
• “no longer Gage”
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Neurology
• The case of the color-blind painter
• The Last Hippie
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Penfield’s Homunculus
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what is “Telepathy”?
• Extrasensory perception?
• Or merely unexpected perception?
what is
telepathy?
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Present
• Telescopes into the mind
• A Team of Rivals
• Wide-open two way
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Telescopes into the Mind
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
• Many others
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
• Monitor oxygen flow to neurons
• Let’s you see the dynamics
• But a bit slow compared to speed of thought
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Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Good time resolution
• Poor space resolution
• Inexpensive
• Mobile
• Joysticks
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Trans-Cranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
• Non-invasive
• But lets you create waves of activity in the brain
• For depression,
• Locked-in patients,
• Asperger’s
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Team of Rivals
• The impossible fast ball
• Emergent consciousness
• Advanced loopiness
• Prediction machine
• Thinking fast & slow
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The impossibility of hitting a Fast ball
• 400 ms to plate
• 500 ms to plan response
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Emergent Consciousness
• 80 billion neurons,
• 10000 synapses per neuron,
• And continuously rewiring itself!
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Advanced Loopiness
• Self-modifying code
• Turning oneself into a high performing robot
• Robot is good
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Prediction machine
• Realtime categorization
• Preferably using automated learning
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Thinking fast & slow
• Instinct
• Reason
• Reason gets a veto
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Wide Open Two Way
• Reading thoughts
• Prostheses
• Chips in the brain
• Mind videos
• Two way mind to mind communication
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Hawking/Reading Thoughts
• Predictive
• Latest version was monitoring his brain waves
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Sight for the Blind, movement for Paralyzed
• BCI - Brain Computer Interface
• Bypass nerve damage
• Specific to patient
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A Taste of Sight
• Camera in sunglasses
• Computer converts to low-res gray scale
• Image recreated on electrodes
• User feels images on tongue
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Mind Video• Memories are
not video
• Can monitor, interpret,
• and then recreate
• But very specific
• http://gallantlab.org
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Rat Telepathy
• One rat gets the information
• The other rat is connected by electrodes
• And can use that information
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Mind the Gap• What doors does
this open?
• What could possibly go wrong?
• How do we manage our minds?
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What doors will this open?
• Communication & Cooperation
• Biofeedback
• Theory of mind
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Communication & Cooperation
• Augmented reality
• Extended self
• Communicating with “locked-in” people
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Biofeedback
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Theory of mind
• Imitation is the ultimate test
• Is there a them there?
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It’s a good life
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Mind Mgmt
• The knowledge illusion
• Inside Out
• The Future of the Mind
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• We know less than we think we do,
• We treat our circle of experts as if they are part of our own head,
• Which is mostly helpful.
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Turning the mind inside out
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The Future of the Mind
• TMS, Asperger’s, & the DLPFC
• Biofeedback, dopamine, & cocaine
• A taste for sight
• The Google glass is half full
• The Mind Frontier
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Parting Thoughts• The Future of the Mind
- Kaku
• Thinking Fast & Slow - Hahnemann
• Your brain is a time machine - Buonomano
• Incognito - Eagleman
• The Knowledge Illusion - Sloman & Fernbach