“Can Minds Connect? Scientists Explore Brain-to-Brain Emotional Transmission!”

You find yourself seated next to a friend while experiencing intense emotional sadness when you discover this feeling belongs to your friend. It’s theirs. People would mistake this capability for a space-age science fiction plot. The world today might be excluding this idea from being fiction.

Through Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) we have arrived at a time when emotions along with thoughts and intents can flow directly from brain to brain. No wires, no words just pure, silent communication.

The definition of a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) explains its fundamental concept.

Prior to examining the unreal potential I want to start from fundamental principles. A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) exists as technology that enables brain signals to directly operate external equipment such as computers or robotic limbs and other central nervous systems. Scientists have created BCIs which enable paralyzed persons to move robotically controlled arms through thoughts alone. Scientists are developing the possibility to use BCI technology for emotional transmission.

The First Steps in Brain-to-Brain Communication

The thought crosses your mind how we could verify such accomplishments in real life.

Yes! Laboratory scientists achieved brain-to-brain research on animals as well as human subjects in their experiments. Researchers studied two rat subjects who remained in separate rooms but their brains were connected through interfaces when one rat learned the lever action for food the other animal learned simultaneously.

And guess what? Humans are next. Through BCIs scientists have already managed to transmit easy thoughts between different individuals. A research participant in India formed specific thoughts about hand movement at the same time that someone in France operated their BCI-controlled hand device unknowingly.

Can We Really Send Emotions?

The following development becomes unsettling. Research investigators are studying if Brain-machine interface technology can transmit emotional signals together with command signals.

Brain regions which process emotions enable scientists to believe the technical feasibility of extracting emotion signals for translation and brain transfer.

Imagined scenarios reveal the possibility to experience the mood states of loved ones directly without needing any verbal communication. A therapist could experience the exact emotional state of their patient through mental transfers. Soldiers deployed in combat operations should have the ability to communicate emotions through various means that bypasses verbal speech.

The Dark Side of Brain-to-Brain Tech

Great power that functions like this creates the opportunity for disturbing misapplication of its capabilities. Can emotional transfer processes lead to modifications of sent emotions? A method for controlling human emotional experiences appears to be within reach of government agencies alongside corporate powers. Someone could breach your mental system to direct fabricated emotional responses into your body.

It is deeply frightening to think whether we could detect when our emotions originate from ourselves.

The future arrives in a nearer timeline than we expect.

The preliminary state of BCIs continues today although tech organizations like Elon Musk’s Neurolink urge to create brain-to-brain transmission capabilities. The achievement of scientists could potentially result in a society which shares thoughts and feelings instantly together with dreams.

When an emotion appears unexplained ask yourself if this feeling belongs to you or if it originates elsewhere. Thus another person’s brain signals could possibly connect with my mind.

Also posted on Medium ,the link is https://medium.com/@prabuddhi18/can-minds-connect-scientists-explore-brain-to-brain-emotional-transmission-486f04c397a3