A step towards connecting brains

As I explained in previous post Understanding your brain that our brain is complex but we can make life simpler if we understand our own brain. I was very curious toΒ  know about it, and how it works inside out. This curiosity led me to buy a hardware “Neurosky Mindwave mobile” which helps me to analyze my brain signals and understand it in real world by showing different waves such as alpha, beta, theta, gamma. Every thought i think makes a pattern which I can see with the help of that hardware.

I recently visited some of my friends who work at Pune and they helped me with one idea that may be possible to implement, it is just a theory that we have discussed and hopefully it will come into picture quite a time later.

So the theory is: Whenever our brain think of a thought the hardware gives a value of alpha, beta, theta and gamma activity. So Omkar Khair(a geek friend :P) said consider we show a person a video of a red ball bouncing having blue background so it will create some values for waves and we will save that values, next time we ask the user to think about red ball bouncing in front of blue colour wall, so it will again create the values which will be nearby the same values that we stored and if we are able to equate the two things then we can visualize the red ball bouncing in front of a screen giving what the user is thinking, likewise we can cover few objects and can represent it.

I was really impressed by this theory and actually loved to implement and try it, as I said its just a theory so there are many constraints to it like the sounds hindering the thoughts, smell and other senses that will process some different thought in brain.

If explained in engineering term, the constraint is like I have a wave(thought) and when i am analyzing it, it is been hindered as it was modulated(adding noise and other senses signals) while reaching the destination(brain), we might have to use some algorithms to remove it but it is worth trying!

From Jan month will start working on it and playing around it, I would really appreciate your thoughts on it or if you have some suggestions to ignite the ideas to implementation πŸ™‚

Thank you for reading, stay tuned for further post πŸ™‚

2 responses to “A step towards connecting brains”

  1. Subhasish Biswas Avatar
    Subhasish Biswas

    Hey buddy! How are you doing? Love the idea but i believe that we cant actually seperate the ambient signals (from the other senses) from the actual signal. As you said, you need an algorithm but a simple algoritm wont do. You need something much more powerful than that, something close to an AI (artificial intelligence) that would be able to recognize what the user is doing. If the AI can be taught to learn from experience (i.e. monitoring the user and recording the output signals from the brain) then that would help a lot.
    Just a thought…
    Hope you enjoying the 31st.

    1. Hey bro, long time I am doing good πŸ™‚ yeah you are right we won’t be able to separate the ambient signals, what we can do is take the values of other activity too, like noises and other things and then subtract from the original values, I am saying in very simple terms but it is very complex. AI I don’t know how much will it be possible to help us with this, but yes will surely give it a try. As soon as I start working on it, I will try that and will keep you updated with it πŸ™‚ Thanks for your suggestion mate πŸ™‚

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