CNN News: 科學家首次通過互聯(lián)網(wǎng)完成心靈感應(yīng)實驗

Here in his lab, I was carefully wired up, electrodesattached that can make sure the electrical activity inmy brain.

在他的實驗室中,我周身上下被小心翼翼地用電線連接起來,而上面的電極可以確保我大腦中的腦電活動。

This is a first for me, looking at my own brain waves.

對我來說，這是第一次注視著自己的腦電波。

On the other side of campus, a good kilometeraway,Dr.Jessica Thomas was giving ready to.She would receive my thoughts, the quiz master in agame of 20 Questions.

而校園的另一邊，一公里遠處的杰西卡·托馬斯博士已經(jīng)準備就緒。她會接受我對于20個問題游戲中的想法。

This would be the first person from the public who's actually going to be sitting in this chair.So, you better do well.

這將是第一位公眾人物坐在這把椅子上。所以,要更好的表現(xiàn)。

So, I'm going to have to concentrate really hard.

如果你想讓別人弄清楚你腦子里在想什么的話，這樣會有幫助的。

That would help, if you want to them to figure out what's on your mind.

接下來我會被給予一個物體進行思考,隨后在屏幕上提出一個關(guān)于它的問題。

I was given an object to think about and ask a question about it on screen.I responded with just my eyes, focusing on a pair of oscillating lights under each answer, left foryes, right for no.This made the neurons in the visual cortex at the back of my brain fire in a certain way.And the information transmitted by the Internet to Dr.Thomas.

我只能用雙眼來完成,在每組答案下的振蕩光中以左對右錯的方式集中精神。這樣我大腦后部就會以某種方式射出視覺皮層的神經(jīng)元。而信息會通過互聯(lián)網(wǎng)傳到托馬斯博士那里。

Her helmet is equipped with a special device, transcranial magnetic stimulator, or TMS, which modifies her brain waves using magnetic fields.

托馬斯博士的頭盔是有一種名為TMS經(jīng)顱磁刺激器的特殊裝置，這種裝置會通過磁場調(diào)整她的腦電波。

If the answer is yes, a pulse alters her vision ever so slightly.And after a few more questions, she consistently guessed what I was thinking.In the other words, in the rudimentary way, she was reading my thoughts.

如果是肯定的答案,一道脈沖會微微刺激她的雙眼。而幾道問題之后,她要一直猜我在想什么。換句話說,基本上,她需要讀取我的想法。

Proving that brain to brain communication was feasible involved a meeting of three minds,Andrea Stocco and Chantel Prat are psychologists, married both to each other and to theexperiment.I'm the first person in the world to receive a tiny piece of information that comes straight from another person's brain.I'm only talking to the students who were there and I felt like, you know, we actually made the tiny bit of history today.We're dipping our toes in the water here, aren't we?That's a very good analogy.I think we are just beginning to scratch the surface of what does it mean for brains to be connected.

證明大腦間通過三方交流是參與此次試驗安德里亞·斯特科及心理學家查特爾·帕拉特夫婦的主要目標。我是世界上直接從另一個人大腦中獲得一小部分信息的第一人。我只跟那里的學生聊了聊,在那之后我感覺,你知道,我們今天實際上改變了一點點歷史。我們已經(jīng)跨進了那扇大門,不是嗎?這是很好的比喻。我認為我們只是剛開始接觸大腦連接問題的表面。

For example, from the medical side, you could imagine, you know, a paralyzed patients conveying to their loved ones, you know, their feelings and their intentions.

例如,從醫(yī)學角度,你可以想象,一名癱瘓的病人希望對至親之傳達信息,你知道,他們的感情和意圖等等。

There's a potential for brains to be connected in a way that it could be used for conveying, you know, abstract knowledge that might be hard to convey through language.

大腦通過某種特定方式進行連接可以用于傳送,你懂的,抽象的知識可能很難通過語言傳達。

So, this concept of brain tutoring or neural tutoring, just think brain to brain communication as a next potential stage for, you know, human evolution.

因此我們引入了大腦輔導(dǎo)或神經(jīng)輔導(dǎo)的概念,想想大腦間溝通會成為未來潛在的階段,你知道,人類終于進化。

Do we actually go beyond what biology can offer us in terms of communication to enhanceour creativity as humans?

我們是否真正超越生物學所提出作為人類的我們通過交流提高自身創(chuàng)造力嗎?

And, you know, maybe we can literally put our heads together, you know, to solve the challenges facing humanity, you know, in science and in technology.

而且,你知道,也許我們可以集思廣益,解決人類在科學技術(shù)領(lǐng)域面臨的難題。