rajesh p. n. rao and andrea stocco published the findings of a study in plos one, november 2014, volume 9, issue 11 entitled “A direct brain-to-brain interface in humans.” a summary of their pioneering work was presented in scientific american november 1, 2014. if readers are interested in the details of this study, i refer them to the article above. i shall present several excerpts from the summary article that show how neuroscientists are beginning to generate data that may at least partially explain how jesus knew the thoughts of others, that it was a real and true event as recorded in scripture.
“brain-computer interfaces (bci) rely on data-processing techniques to extract a person’s intention to move and then relay that information to the device he or she wishes to control. in 2010 one of us (rao) had a realization: perhaps we could use this same principle to beam thoughts from one human brain to another.
“the gist of our strategy was to use electrodes arranged on one person’s scalp to pick up brain waves (ON EEG’S) . . . . hidden in that neural hubbub are signals that indicate what a person is thinking. we would focus on extracting one such pattern and then send it over the internet to a second person. the signal would dictate how to electrically stimulate the recipient’s brain. . . . we would use one person’s brain data to produce a specific pattern of neural activity in another individual.
“once a computer decodes a neural mesSAGE, THE MAIN QUESTION BECOMES HOW TO DELIVER IT. . . . TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (TMS) . . . RELIES ON PULSES OF A MAGNETIC FIELD TO INDUCE NEURONS IN A SPECIFIC AREA OF THE RECIPIENT’S BRAIN TO FIRE.”
DETAILS OF THE METHODOLOGY ARE PRESENTED IN THE SUMMARY. “THE SUDDEN RISE AND FALL OF A MAGNETIC FIELD INDUCES A TINY ELECTRIC CURRENT IN THE NEURONS . . . ENGULFED BY THAT FIELD, MAKING THEM MORE LIKELY TO FIRE. WHEN THEY DO, A CHAIN OF CONNECTED NEURONS ALSO ACTIVATES [AS DESCRIBED IN MY WRITINGS, BOTH BOOKS AND BLOGS].” THE ENCODED ELECTRIC SIGNAL OF INTENTION DETECTED IN THE EEG OF THE SENDER WAS PICKED UP AND TRANSMITTED VIA THE INTERNET TO THE RECIPIENT IN THIS STUDY, INDUCING VIA TMS AN INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT IN THE TARGETED PART OF AN EXTREMITY. THE AUTHORS STATED, “SUCCESS! FOR THE FIRST TIME, A HUMAN BRAIN HAD COMMUNICATED AN INTENTION DIRECTLY TO ANOTHER HUMAN BRAIN, ALLOWING THE TWO BRAINS TO JOINTLY COMPLETE A TASK. . . . WE HAVE NOW REPLICATED OUR FINDINGS WITH SEVERAL OTHER PAIRS OF HUMANS. . . . WHENEVER AN INTENTION WAS CORRECTLY DETECTED BY THE EEG SYSTEM (IN THE SENDER), THE INFORMATION WAS COMMUNICATED DIRECTLY TO THE RECEIVER’S BRAIN USING TMS. . . . OUR NEXT SET OF EXPERIMENTS WILL EXPLORE TARGETING OTHER BRAIN REGIONS TO PRODUCE A CONSCIOUS THOUGHT.”
THIS STUDY IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT. I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LENGTH OF THIS POST, BUT I WANTED TO PROVIDE A REASONABLE SAMPLE OF THE STUDY’S FINDINGS, SHOWING CONCORDANCE BETWEEN NEUROSCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE. I WILL NOW POST SEVERAL MORE BLOGS THAT DEAL WITH OUR BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AGAIN SHOWING SUCH CONCORDANCE.