by Sean Martin
March 24, 2016

from Express Website
 

Uncommon Core

Scientists Discover How to

Upload Knowledge to the Brain.

A GROUP of scientists

claim to have created a simulator

which can upload knowledge

directly to your brain.

Brain/computer interface is the holy grail of the transhuman community.

 

It is moving closer to reality as multiplied billions of dollars fund research to fulfill Obama's inaugural pledge to "map the human brain" via the Brain Initiative (BI).

 

Listen to the video to understand the scope and goals of the project
 

In a breakthrough which promises new technology like that from The Matrix, researchers at HRL Laboratories have developed a program which they say can upload new skills and knowledge directly to your brain.

The California-based institution analyzed electrical signals in the brain of a pilot and fed the data to people who didn't have the knowledge to fly planes via electrode-embedded head caps which stimulated the correct regions of the brain.
 

The participants who were fed the information via electrodes were then pitted against a placebo group on a realistic flight simulation test, which found that the former performed an average of 33 per cent better than the latter, according to the results published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Neuronal Activity and Learning in Pilot Training.)
 

Lead author Dr Matthew Phillips explained:

"Our system is one of the first of its kind. It's a brain stimulation system.

"It sounds kind of sci-fi, but there's large scientific basis for the development of our system. The specific task we were looking at was piloting an aircraft, which requires a synergy of both cognitive and motor performance.
 

 

 

"When you learn something, your brain physically changes. Connections are made and strengthened in a process called neuro-plasticity.

"It turns out that certain functions of the brain, like speech and memory, are located in very specific regions of the brain, about the size of your pinky."

He added that this could be the future of learning:

"What our system does is it actually targets those changes to specific regions of the brain as you learn.

 

 

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"The method itself is actually quite old. In fact, the ancient Egyptians 4000 years ago used electric fish to stimulate and reduce pain.

"Even Ben Franklin applied currents to his head, but the rigorous, scientific investigation of these methods started in the early 2000s and we're building on that research to target and personalize a stimulation in the most effective way possible.

"Your brain is going to be very different to my brain when we perform a task.

"What we found is… brain stimulation seems to be particularly effective at actually improving learning."

While scientists may have figured out how to upload knowledge to a brain, a Russian billionaire is working on uploading his brain to a computer.

Dmitry Itskov has said he will make it possible for humans to live forever in the next 30 years by connecting human brains to computers.