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Word Count: 596 Thought Control
Thought control? How would you like to be able to turn on your television
just by thinking? Or have the door to your house open by mind power when your
hands were full? This isn't something that will remain science fiction for long.
The technology necessary to make this happen is here now.
First of all, you have basic thought control now, meaning you can control and
direct your thoughts. You can imagine a friend talking in your mind, for
example. Then you can choose to hear music in your imagination. If you are
hooked up to an electroencephalograph when you do these things, it will also be
clear that these two thoughts are handled in different parts of your brain.
This electroencephalogram, or EEG, is important, because what we can measure,
we can use to do things. Think about this for a moment. Modern electronics has
made it possible to easily operate things as a response to measurement. A
thermostat measures the temperature, for example, and turns the heater on or off
according to that measurement. Security lights turn themselves on when light
levels get low.
Thought Control Devices
We can already measure and track what is going on in the brain. Is it
inconceivable then, to have that measurement automatically trigger some action?
For example, even before the electrical patterns of the brain were made
"visible," we measured pulse rate with many different machines. Now, what if
instead of sending a signal to a monitor telling a red light to go on when the
heart raced, the signal told the TV to turn on? Think of anything that gets your
heart racing and the TV would turn on, right?
Call it mind power, thought control or whatever. You can see that such a
device has been possible for at least a generation now. With new technology, and
more detailed measurements of the actual electric patterns of the brain, how
much more is possible?
Someday, an electroencephalograph type of device will be able to more
directly read your mind. The technology will eventually get to the point where
it can print out the actual words you are thinking. We are a long way from that,
but we are right at the brink of building machines that give us thought control
of the things around us.
You see, even with the crude measurements being done now, as long as we can
choose what to think about, and any resulting change in the brain can be
measured, the possibilities are endless. For example, we can already see the
changes in the brain when a person thinks about music, versus a conversation. An
existing electroencephalograph machine, using electrodes attached to your head,
could be set to turn on the lights instead of producing a changing chart when
you sing in your mind.
For paraplegics without speech, there's real hope in this idea. A patterned
alternating of thoughts could be used as a sort of Morse code, spelling out
words on a screen. They could actually use thought control to make a message
appear! At the current level of technology, this would be a tedious process, but
the amazing thing is that all the necessary things to build a machine like this
are here right now. It's time for thought control!
About The Author
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