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soulsearcher3
According to popular belief the human brain is the most advanced computer in the world to date.In other words its an organic computer with the most advanced technology. Acording to some things i have learned in science class, during your thought process(which is basicly all the time)you brain creats brainwaves which are supposibly simular to radio waves sent by your local radio station,phone towers or walkie talkies.And im sure a lot of you have heard the stories of someone with braces actually picking up a radio station or of the sorts.If this is the case if you are able to amplifi your brainwaves enough to reach another human mind (givin that there mind are receptible to these frequencies)they should be able to here what you were thinking with these concentaited or amplified brainwaves you put off.


Well thats just something I had an idea about.Please let me know what you think and input on the subject matter you might have.
aquatus1
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Acording to some things i have learned in science class, during your thought process(which is basicly all the time)you brain creats brainwaves which are supposibly simular to radio waves sent by your local radio station,phone towers or walkie talkies.


Ahh...not quite. They are the same in the sense that they do contain an energy pulse that does propogate like an electromagnetic wave, but the key word here is 'like'. The brain is not electromagnetic, but rather electrochemical. The electrical pulses in the neural system do not propogate like electricity in a wire, but rather like marbles in a hose, meaning that they move forward ion by ion, as a physical, not electrical, transport system.

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And im sure a lot of you have heard the stories of someone with braces actually picking up a radio station or of the sorts.


Actually, the story is that you can hear radio with fillings. This was from several years ago, when fillings were a little different. Like a crystal radio set, some filling acted as a conductor (the filling) isolated by a ceramic isolater (the tooth), which led to some semi-corroborated stories about picking up radio. Technically, it is theoretically possible to hear the radio on your braces, but again, the process involved is completely electromagnetic in nature.

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If this is the case if you are able to amplifi your brainwaves enough to reach another human mind (givin that there mind are receptible to these frequencies)they should be able to here what you were thinking with these concentaited or amplified brainwaves you put off.


The problem is the lack of power. Putting aside that the brain is electrochemical, not electronic, there simply isn't enough wattage available for transmission. If every one of your neurons fired off simulataneously (asides from being reduced to a drooling lump), you would only discharge approximately about 3 or 4 volts, about as much contained in two AA batteries. An EEG only works because the electrodes are closely attached to the relevant part of the skul (or sometimes inside)l for measurements, and even then are only able to detect fluctuations. For anything more detailed, you need an immense device known as a CAT scan, that sucks enough power to dim the lights in the hospital when it cuts on.

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Well thats just something I had an idea about.Please let me know what you think and input on the subject matter you might have.


It is a good hypothesis. It simply lacked a bit of experience on the matter. I encourage you to continue pursuing these sorts of studies, as the workings of the mind are going to be very important for our future development.
soulsearcher3
That is some very interesting points you make.

Ihave a question for you im not sure about:static electricity,how does yer body creat enough of it to shock someone?
aquatus1
It doesn't create it, but rather it gathers it from the enviroment. Ruthlessly compressed, it works like this: As you walk across a carpet, electrons are attracted to you. When you reach for the doorknob (a conductor), the protons in the doorknob attract the electrons on you, and the result is a spark as the electrons transmit through the air to the protons in the metal. If the day is humid, you won't get this, as the elctrons on you will be dissipated through the air.
soulsearcher3
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It doesn't create it, but rather it gathers it from the enviroment. Ruthlessly compressed, it works like this: As you walk across a carpet, electrons are attracted to you. When you reach for the doorknob (a conductor), the protons in the doorknob attract the electrons on you, and the result is a spark as the electrons transmit through the air to the protons in the metal. If the day is humid, you won't get this, as the elctrons on you will be dissipated through the air.

Do you know how we have vuluntary and invulintary muscles,well I seen documentaries of people actually being able to slow down there heart(invuluntary muscle) at will.There is a mental "illness", I can't seem to recall what the correct medical term it is,but the symptoms are: constant paranoia of being ill or in poor health all the time.Thus while not having a virus or bug they create the symptoms nontheless.For example:They do not have the flu virus in there system but they still run a fever and vomit because they think they are sick,yet they do not have the virus and its triggered by the belief that they are indeed sick.Now in theoretical terms if you had the ability to control your your body to a great extent,would you be able to create a more cunductive cell and "harvest" electrons in a much higher quantity?
aquatus1
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Do you know how we have vuluntary and invulintary muscles,well I seen documentaries of people actually being able to slow down there heart(invuluntary muscle) at will.


Right. It is actually relatively simple to do with meditation, and even easier using biofeedback devices (such as those devices that monitor your heart rate). With maybe a month of practice, you can control your heart rate.

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There is a mental "illness", I can't seem to recall what the correct medical term it is,but the symptoms are: constant paranoia of being ill or in poor health all the time.Thus while not having a virus or bug they create the symptoms nontheless.For example:They do not have the flu virus in there system but they still run a fever and vomit because they think they are sick,yet they do not have the virus and its triggered by the belief that they are indeed sick.


The syndrome of feeling sick is referred to as Hypochondria, and the physical manifestation of non-existant symptoms is referred to as Psychosomatic.

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Now in theoretical terms if you had the ability to control your your body to a great extent,would you be able to create a more cunductive cell and "harvest" electrons in a much higher quantity?


No. Neither controlling the involuntary nervous system, hypochondrism, nor psychosomatics, involves processes which are not inherently natural to the body; they are simply changes in the degree of control, a greater control for the nervous system, or a loss of control for the two illnesses. The conductivity of cells is not what affects the gathering and storage of electrons, but rather the environment. If the air is very dry, and the surface very electrostatic, such as a polyester rug or a neoprene mesh, electrons will transfer. If, on the other hand, the air is very humid, the electrons will naturally bleed off into the atmosphere.

You can actually change the conductivity of your skin, however. You can buy a cheap multimeter at your local electronics store. This device measures electrical resistance. By holding the two probes, you can measure how much resistance electricity meets passing through your skin; if you tense up, greater resistance results, where if you relax, less resistance occurs.
soulsearcher3
OK. Hypathetically you have control of your whole intire bodily mechanics(even at an atomic level)would you be able to change basically what you are,or make yourself more conductive to electricity etc...?Even though this would be an extrordinary feat,it wouldnt be impossible,improbable,but not impossible.
aquatus1
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OK. Hypathetically you have control of your whole intire bodily mechanics(even at an atomic level)would you be able to change basically what you are,or make yourself more conductive to electricity etc...?Even though this would be an extrordinary feat,it wouldnt be impossible,improbable,but not impossible.


Well, for all intents and purposes, yes, it is impossible. This is why: When you deal with the natural world, the one we are in, you are dealing with macro physics. There is a specific set of rules that govern energy in the macro world. When you go into the world of the extremely tiny, however, you have entered the quatum world. Quantum physics are much different than macro physics, to the point of almost constituting a different reality altogether. In this quatum reality, objects can be both there and not there, and even in two places at once. When you come down to the quantum world, everything is understood in terms of energy, so electricity is no longer an individual force, but rather an aspects of everything, though not in the manner that we (in the macro) understand it.

Remember that, at the atomic level, there is no way to distinguish between one object and another. If you where in a teeny tiny, atomic sized spaceship, and you flew through a human, a chair, an electrical wire, and a pool, you would not see absolutely anything out of the ordinary, because from your perspective, all you would be doing is flying around indistinguishable atoms. You would not be able to tell where you ended, where the chair began, where the wire was, or if you were in water, because none of those things exist as individual units in the quantum world (they only exist in the macro world).

So, basically, your brain cannot control the quantum world because, at the quantum level, your brain does not exist.
Bella-Angelique
It is theoretically possible that a chip that can accurately read messages within the brain could also be used as a transmitter/receiver to a chip in another brain designed to be a transmitter/reciever. Early regulating controls would probably be external.
This would be part of the ongoing self evolution of the human species into cyborgs.

Funding will continue so that the deaf may hear, the blind may see, and the paralyzed can walk. It is only a metter of time till telepathy by chip is as common as using a cell phone today.
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