12月8日CNN聽力：科學家初次經由過程互聯網完故意靈感到試驗 將來或能辦理科學困難
Here in his lab, I was carefully wired up, electrodesattached that can make sure the electrical activity inmy brain.
This is a first for me, looking at my own brain waves.
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.
This would be the first person from the public who's actually going to be sitting in this chair.
So, you better do well.
So, I'm going to have to concentrate really hard.
That would help, if you want to them to figure out what's on your mind.
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.
Her helmet is equipped with a special device, transcranial magnetic stimulator, or TMS, whichmodifies her brain waves using magnetic fields.
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.
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 fromanother person's brain.
I'm only talking to the students who were there and I felt like, you know, we actually made thetiny 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 beconnected.
For example, from the medical side, you could imagine, you know, a paralyzed patientsconveying to their loved ones, you know, their feelings and their intentions.
There's a potential for brains to be connected in a way that it could be used for conveying, youknow, abstract knowledge that might be hard to convey through language.
So, this concept of brain tutoring or neural tutoring, just think brain to brain communicationas a next potential stage for, you know, human evolution.
Do we actually go beyond what biology can offer us in terms of communication to enhanceour creativity as humans?
And, you know, maybe we can literally put our heads together, you know, to solve thechallenges facing humanity, you know, in science and in technology.
If you're looking for another reason why Fridays are awesome, look no further than a donkey ina squad car.
No, he wasn't resisting arrest.
The affable animal was found wondering alone along a busy highway.
The lady who found him had a place where he could stay, but she needed someone's help ingetting in there.
So, when officers showed up, loaded him up with the help of some animal feed and gave him apolice escort.
He was only in custody for about four miles and he didn't hee and haw too much about it.
He might have crooked an ear, made an off-the-cuff subjection, but it's not like the officercould give him don-keys and let him drive himself home.
I'm Carl Azuz.
We hope to see you Monday when CNN STUDENT NEWS returns.
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