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http://timeandquantummechanics.comPractical Telepathy/Philcon November 11th, 2017

Practical Telepathy

John Ashmead

http://www.timeandquantummechanics.com

http://timeandquantummechanics.comPractical Telepathy/WorldCon/San Jose/August 17th, 2018

You must remember this

• A brief history of telepathy

• Mind is what brain does

• What is “telepathy”?



A brief history of Telepathy

• Mentalism

• Slan

• Rhine

• Side-band information



Mentalism

• Cartesian Dualism

• Astral Plane

• Brain is a house, Mind is just a renter



Slan

• Like a broad band receiver

• Tendrils (like antennae)

• Scares neighbors



Rhine & Zener cards



Smile when you say that!

• Micro expressions

• Reflection of light from face

• Botox



Mind is what brain does

• Phrenology

• Spike in the head

• Neurology

• The Penfield homonculus



Things that go Bump in the Head

• Phrenology

• One lobe/one function?



Spike in the head

• Iron bar rammed thru his head

• Didn’t kill

• But made a profound change in behavior

• “no longer Gage”



Neurology

• The case of the color-blind painter

• The Last Hippie



Penfield’s Homunculus



what is “Telepathy”?

• Extrasensory perception?

• Or merely unexpected perception?

what is

telepathy?



Present

• Telescopes into the mind

• A Team of Rivals

• Wide-open two way



Telescopes into the Mind

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

• Electroencephalogram (EEG)

• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

• Many others



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



Electroencephalogram (EEG)

• Good time resolution

• Poor space resolution

• Inexpensive

• Mobile

• Joysticks



Trans-Cranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

• Non-invasive

• But lets you create waves of activity in the brain

• For depression,

• Locked-in patients,

• Asperger’s



Team of Rivals

• The impossible fast ball

• Emergent consciousness

• Advanced loopiness

• Prediction machine

• Thinking fast & slow



The impossibility of hitting a Fast ball

• 400 ms to plate

• 500 ms to plan response



Emergent Consciousness

• 80 billion neurons,

• 10000 synapses per neuron,

• And continuously rewiring itself!



Advanced Loopiness

• Self-modifying code

• Turning oneself into a high performing robot

• Robot is good



Prediction machine

• Realtime categorization

• Preferably using automated learning



Thinking fast & slow

• Instinct

• Reason

• Reason gets a veto



Wide Open Two Way

• Reading thoughts

• Prostheses

• Chips in the brain

• Mind videos

• Two way mind to mind communication



Hawking/Reading Thoughts

• Predictive

• Latest version was monitoring his brain waves



Sight for the Blind, movement for Paralyzed

• BCI - Brain Computer Interface

• Bypass nerve damage

• Specific to patient



A Taste of Sight

• Camera in sunglasses

• Computer converts to low-res gray scale

• Image recreated on electrodes

• User feels images on tongue



Mind Video• Memories are

not video

• Can monitor, interpret,

• and then recreate

• But very specific

• http://gallantlab.org


http://gallantlab.org

http://gallantlab.org


Rat Telepathy

• One rat gets the information

• The other rat is connected by electrodes

• And can use that information



Mind the Gap• What doors does

this open?

• What could possibly go wrong?

• How do we manage our minds?



What doors will this open?

• Communication & Cooperation

• Biofeedback

• Theory of mind



Communication & Cooperation

• Augmented reality

• Extended self

• Communicating with “locked-in” people



Biofeedback



Theory of mind

• Imitation is the ultimate test

• Is there a them there?



It’s a good life



Mind Mgmt

• The knowledge illusion

• Inside Out

• The Future of the Mind



• 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.



Turning the mind inside out



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



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


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