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. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22331