Researchers Connect A Human Mind To The Internet For The First Time Ever

Anti-Media – by Jake Anderson

Have you ever thought about whether future humans will live out aspects of their lives online in simulated environments, or even extend their natural lifespans by uploading their minds to a secure cloud ecosystem? It’s been a familiar idea in science fiction for decades. With news that Elon Musk was attempting to build a “neural lace,” the concept of a brain-machine interface (BMI) entered the public lexicon. Now, researchers at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, claim to have linked a human mind to the Internet in real time — a biomedical first.  

The project, dubbed the “Brainternet,” required the researchers to gather EEG brainwave signals using only an Emotiv EEG device and a simple Raspberry Pi computer. The experiment allowed the human brain to become an information node in the Internet of Things (IoT).

The experiment’s supervisor, Adam Pantanowitz, described it this way:

Brainternet is a new frontier in brain-computer interface systems. There is a lack of easily understood data about how a human brain works and processes information. Brainternet seeks to simplify a person’s understanding of their own brain and the brains of others. It does this through continuous monitoring of brain activity as well as enabling some interactivity.

Researchers say the project could provide valuable information for future deep learning algorithms and could even assist Musk’s endeavors in creating true BMI. Many futurists believe that as the impact and everyday importance of the Internet grows, it is inevitable that humans will merge the physical world with online virtual environments, ushering in a generation of enhanced augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and a synthesis of the two that some call Mixed Reality.

While the concept of “living” on the Internet may seem remote, we are in many ways already cyborgs dependent on the Web and artificial intelligence. Linking our brains to an online “hive mind” may ultimately prove to be the most efficient way humans can both receive and transmit information, though concerns over surveillance and privacy will likely follow us all the way through the century.

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7 thoughts on “Researchers Connect A Human Mind To The Internet For The First Time Ever

  1. While “fascinating” in a morbid sort of way, this sh!t will not go well for us. Hooking our brains up to the internet? Really? They have opened a very dangerous portal from which, I fear, we shall not return. But I suspect that is the point. THINK! What happens when almost everyone you know is “brainterneted” and you are one of a very few holdouts. The whole world is now geared towards them. They dont need to eat or cook, there’s an app for that. (a pill, perhaps) , you are now in the minority. No need to harvest anymore, how will you eat? No need for money, almost everyone is in the collective. How will you clothe yourself, with there being no need for fashion anymore? They won’t have a need for police gestapo agents, because everyone will obey without question. No one protests anything…..everything in the collective is provided. People, this is WRONG! So, given this horror, is suicide all that bad? Because I WILL NEVER SUBMIT.

  2. It works both ways. What goes out of the brain can go into of the brain. The transmission can overload and fry your brain into a zombie state. These people are so stupid.

  3. How do we know that we haven’t already done this? Our reality is ruled by physical laws which indicates design. Constraints themselves are logic, logic and order require duality to be expressed. It is possible that this reality is not our reality at all, just a simulation. We ourselves may be a simulation.

    1. This is my reality. I can stand away from it, examine and evaluate it, and I feel how it affects me. Logic dictates that if the human mind was not here to conceive all that we have made reality, nothing would exist.
      When I hear people speak of destroying all human life for the other lives on this planet, it is meaningless as there would be no one left to care whether there was any other life or not.
      Nothing is impossible, there are only things of which we have not conceived.

  4. Google The Matrix Deciphered by Robert Duncan AKA The Saint. It’s a very very long read, I printed it out a few years ago. Pay attention to the acronym TAMI. Thought Amplifier and Mind Interface. Also MIND Magnetic Integrated Neuron Duplicator. The EEG heterodyning electroencephalogram. Neural Pathways… the movie LOOKER 1981 with Susan Day and Albert Finney. My notes on this also have The Mother of all Black Ops. The NSA’s use of EEG heterodyning. The electromagnetically fingerprinting ( EMF field) of Americans is Orwellian.

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