{"id":29232,"date":"2016-08-22T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T22:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/5-incredible-ways-scientists-are-merging-our-brains-with-machines"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:22:06","slug":"5-incredible-ways-scientists-are-merging-our-brains-with-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/5-incredible-ways-scientists-are-merging-our-brains-with-machines","title":{"rendered":"5 Incredible Ways Scientists Are Merging Our Brains With Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-incredible-ways-scientists-are-merging-our-brains-with-machines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityu.org\/bio\/ramez-naam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ramez Naam<\/a>\u2019s fantastic book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00TOZI7FM\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#navbar&tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">Nexus<\/a>,\u201d which is set in a near-future where a powerful nano-drug allows human minds to connect together. In the story, a group of enterprising neuroscientists and engineers discover they can use the drug in a new way \u2014 to run a computer operating system inside their brains. Naam\u2019s characters telepathically communicate with each other using a mental chat app and even manipulate other people\u2019s bodies by gaining control of their brains\u2019 operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds far-fetched, right?<\/p>\n<p>It might not be as far-fetched as you think. From connecting a human brain to a basic tablet to help a paralyzed patient communicate with the outside world to memory-boosting brain implants and a prototype computer chip that runs on live neurons \u2014 the real world progress we\u2019re seeing today is nearly as strange as fiction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/20\/5-wild-ways-scientists-want-to-merge-our-brains-with-computers\/?utm_content=buffer009d9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer#.V7tEuJMrKV4\">http:\/\/news.singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/20\/5-wild-ways-scient...7tEuJMrKV4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been reading Ramez Naam\u2019s fantastic book \u201cNexus,\u201d which is set in a near-future where a powerful nano-drug allows human minds to connect together. In the story, a group of enterprising neuroscientists and engineers discover they can use the drug in a new way \u2014 to run a computer operating system inside their brains. Naam\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66484,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29232\/revisions\/66484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}