"Loading" information into the brain, as in the "Matrix", can become a reality
Downloading “new skills into our brains, just as it did with the heroes of the Matrix, is becoming a reality,” scientists say.The study of martial arts, the ability to fly a plane or speak another language, without even waking up, seems to be becoming a reality, the researchers argue.
Scientists at Boston University and ATR Computer Neurology Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, believe that in the future, mastering new skills will be nothing more than sitting in front of a computer screen waiting for it to “load” the necessary skills.
Scientists investigated how a functional magnetic resonance apparatus (FMRI) can “induce” knowledge into someone through a visualization site in the cortex of its brain, sending signals that change their patterns of brain activity.
This process is called “decoded feedback neurosvyaz”, or “decneirs” (DecNef).
If FMRI does not work, there is always a memory tablet.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine recently discovered that if a molecule called PKR is inhibited, this leads to brain activity, which in turn causes the formation of long-term memory in an adult's brain. Moreover, such a molecule can be blocked artificially, which leads to the stimulation of memory gain, being a kind of doping for it.
Dr. Mario Costa-Mattioli of Baylor College said: “It’s really quite surprising that we can increase both memory and brain activity at the same time with a drug whose effect is directed exclusively to PKR. Our identity and uniqueness is created by our memory. This molecule may have the key to how we can extend our memories, as well as how we can create new ones. ”
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine recently discovered that if a molecule called PKR is inhibited, this leads to brain activity, which in turn causes the formation of long-term memory in an adult's brain. Moreover, such a molecule can be blocked artificially, which leads to the stimulation of memory gain, being a kind of doping for it.
Dr. Mario Costa-Mattioli of Baylor College said: “It’s really quite surprising that we can increase both memory and brain activity at the same time with a drug whose effect is directed exclusively to PKR. Our identity and uniqueness is created by our memory. This molecule may have the key to how we can extend our memories, as well as how we can create new ones. ”
No treatment is required, and the subject matter does not even need to be conscious. He or she just has to change his brain activity to a “target” pattern that can be anything from a star football player to a chess grandmaster.
Takeo Watanabi, a leading specialist from Boston University, said: "The early visual areas of an adult are plastic enough to motivate learning through visual perception."
Scientists believe that we will someday be able to "upload" new abilities, such as martial art
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