X-Message-Number: 22331
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:59:39 -0700
From: Olaf Henny <>
Subject: Re: Mind control of mechanical devices

My apologies about yesterday's posting, from which the article
I refered to was left out. Here is the full posting:

I have speculated on this forum about this subject before based
on a story on TV, which showed a NASA experiment in which a woman
performed a simulated landing of an airliner strictly by mind
control similar to the methods described in the following
article. At the time I thought that it required an extraordinary
mental capability on the part of the woman to accomplish that
feat. But it now appears, that mind control of mechanical
devises through a computer as an intermediary can be learned by
most of us in a relatively short time period.

Assume this mind to computer technology is advanced to the same
degree as the development of aviation from the Wright Brothers 
first powered flight at Kitty Hawk to the Concorde. Then combine
it with the huge amount of information that can be stored in just
a few cubic millimetres of Ralph Merkle s nano-computer inserted
in our cranium and directly interconnect it to our thought
processes and we will all be supermen by today s standards, when
we are revived.

On the other hand there may even be a technology, which allows us
to  hard wire  Ralph s computer to the proper axons or dendrites
in our brains.


Best,
Olaf

The Article:
Last Modified
08.02.03

European Researchers Developing
Mind-Controlled Wheelchair

The lives of wheelchair bound people could soon be revolutionized
thanks to a team of European researchers who are developing a
wheelchair that is controlled by the mind. The technology relies
upon a skullcap worn by the patient that is embedded with
electrodes. The skullcap enables messages from the brain to be
transmitted to a computer, which then passes the messages on to
the wheelchair via a wireless link. Early trials of the system
using a robot suggest that it is as easy to control the robot
with the brain as it is to control it manually, and that a person
would need just two days' training to get to grips with the
system. The mind-controlled computer system is being developed by
Jose Millan of the Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual
Artificial Intelligence in Martigny, Switzerland, and colleagues
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Center for
Biomedical Engineering Research in Barcelona, Spain.

SOURCE/REFERENCE: Reported by www.reutershealth.com on the 23rd
July 2003.

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