Mind-Reading Game Headset to Hit Market

March 7, 2008 -- Imagine controlling a video game by thought alone. Two weeks ago at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Emotiv Systems showcased a new device, the Epoc, designed to help you do just that.

While Emotiv's futuristic, dueling-octopus looking headset will initially be developed for video games, it could eventually be used in medicine, virtual reality, robotics, education and many other areas.

The technology is based on electroencephalography, more commonly known as EEG. EEG has been around for over 100 years and is currently used to study sleep patterns and epilepsy by analyzing electrical activity in the brain. Until recently, though, EEG readings were regarded as too broad for most applications.

The breakthrough, notes Emotiv Systems' President Tan Le, is in the software algorithm that decodes a person's thoughts by analyzing the electrical impulses in the brain.

Many brain signals originate deep inside the brain and radiate outward. By time the signal reaches the outside of the brain, or cerebral cortex, the brain can appear to be firing randomly.


Source: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/07/mind-control-games.html

Helmet to Convey Messages by Thought

Oct. 13, 2008 -- Vocal cords were overrated anyway. A new Army grant aims to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. No need to type an email, dial a phone or even speak a word.

Known as synthetic telepathy, the technology is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG. Similar technology is being marketed as a way to control video games by thought.

"I think that this will eventually become just another way of communicating," said Mike D'Zmura, from the University of California, Irvine and the lead scientist on the project.

"It will take a lot of research, and a lot of time, but there are also a lot of commercial applications, not just military applications," he said.

The idea of communicating by thought alone is not a new one. In the 1960s, a researcher strapped an EEG to his head and, with some training, could stop and start his brain's alpha waves to compose Morse code messages.

Source: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/13/thought-helmet.html

Circadian Rhythm Affects Memory

Most people become aware of their internal circadian clock when they cross several time zones and experience jet lag, but scientists have known for decades that the rhythm of the internal human clock regulates almost every biological system.

Now researchers at Stanford University have shown that when the circadian system breaks down, so does memory. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, biologist Norman Ruby found that hamsters with disabled circadian systems were, unlike "normal" hamsters, unable to remember their environment.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/circadianrhythmaffectsmemory

DNA as Topological Quantum Computer

Sunday, October 12, 2008 2:50 PM
From: matpitka@mappi.helsinki.fi

Dear Vic,

There is a series of 8 articles about TGD inspired theory of
consciousness and quantum biology including a summary of quantum TGD
as it stands now. I think that the easiest way to add these articles
is that You load them from theses addresses as pdfs rather than
attaching them to email. If this is not ok, I can send them also as
attachments.

"Topological Geometrodynamics: What Might Be the First Principles"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/tgd2008.pdf

"TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/tgdconsc.pdf

"TGD Inspired Quantum Model of Living Matter"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/quantumbio.pdf

"DNA as Topological Quantum Computer"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/dnatqcart.pdf

"Evolution in Many-Sheeted Space-time"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/prebiotic.pdf

"A Model for Protein Folding and Bio-Catalysis"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/foldcatalyst.pdf

"The Notion of Wave-Genome and DNA as Topological Quantum Computer"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/gari.pdf

"Quantum Model for Nervepulse and EEG"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/pulseeg.pdf





Also I would like to add two additional articles.

"About the Nature of Time"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/time.pdf

and

"Water Memory and the Realization of Genetic Code at Elementary
Particle Level"
http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/nuclearcode.pdf


The first article represents a model for water memory and homeopathic
mechanism based on nuclear string model, DNA as topological quantum
computer model, and the notion of dark matter as large hbar phases
and nuclear string model. The rather astonishing result is a direct
connection between biology and elementary particle physics: neutral
dark baryons are in 1-1 correspondence with DNA and RNA nucleotides,
and aminoacids and dark nuclear strings therefore realize vertebrate
genetic code exactly. I have constructed a handful of models
reproducing code: this model however predicts it correctly. Chemical
realization of genetic code can be seen as special representations of
something much deeper realized at the level of dark nuclear physics
and perhaps even ordinary nuclear physics.


Second article represents the TGD based view about time. After a work
of decade I dare say that I finally understand at the level of details
how the arrow of geometric time reflects the arrow of experienced time
identified as a sequence of quantum jumps. Consciousness is absolutely
essential for this understanding and also the assumptions that
space-time are surfaces and macroscopic and
macrotemporal quantum coherence.

With Best Regards,
M Pitkanen
matpitka@mappi.helsinki.fi

UK experts say Stonehenge was place of healing

LONDON - The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archaeologists said Monday.

Achaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill said the content of graves scattered around the monument and the ancient chipping of its rocks to produce amulets indicated that Stonehenge was the primeval equivalent of Lourdes, the French shrine venerated for its supposed ability to cure the sick.

An unusual number of skeletons recovered from the area showed signs of serious disease or injury. Analysis of their teeth showed that about half were from outside the Stonehenge area.

"People were in a state of distress, if I can put it as politely as that, when they came to the Stonehenge monument," Darvill told journalists assembled at London's Society of Antiquaries.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080922/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_stonehenge

Faster genetic test for flu virus approved

ATLANTA - The government approved a new genetic test for the flu virus Tuesday that will allow labs across the country to identify flu strains within four hours instead of four days.

The new test was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Applied Biosystems Inc. of Foster City, Calif. The Food and Drug Administration approved the test kit Tuesday, and state health labs are expected to start using it this fall.

CDC officials celebrated it as a potential lifesaver, especially if the nation is hit by a pandemic of bird flu or some other mutant influenza.



Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_he_me/med_fast_flu_test;_ylt=AqFU1uHy9xvIJ4xy.Ys.oZi9j7AB