Will we ever be able to download information from our brain? Some neuroscientists and bioengineers are working on this RIGHT NOW. Someday soon we might be able to see what happened in dreams once we're awake… 👇👇👇 Sources & More down here 👇👇👇 ✨I’m on Patreon! ✨ http://patreon.com/tracedominguez Every new patron causes a litany of excited squeals. Thank you for all your support 💕 ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 📶 EPISODE ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ Downloading our brain has been talked about incessantly by the #sciencefiction and #transhumanist communities, but right now it’s just not possible. What CAN we do with brain information that we can download / upload? Find out this week! ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 📚CHAPTERS ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ 0:00 Downloadin' the brain 2:24 The Sound of Thoughts 5:39 Meet Jan 11:12 Downloading your Dreams 14:25 Hector, Lector, and the Flying Lesson ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 🧠 SERIES DESCRIPTION ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ How do #BrainComputerInterfaces actually read data from the brain? What is the language of the brain? How can we learn to speak that language? What's the best way to control a prosthetic arm, or to become a cyborg? In this series, I look at these advanced pieces of technology and talk to biomedical engineering experts about EEG, fMRI, ECoG, and all the technologies we use to read what the brain is doing while hidden inside our skull. This series is all about how we can #UpgradeOurBrain! Stick around for all the episodes and click here to subscribe so you don't miss any: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-trace ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 🤯SERIES LINKS: #UpgradingYourBrain ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ PART I 🧠 Connecting to the brain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPJDA9t3_m8 PART II 🤔 Language of the Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ3YU7WZT-w PART III 👩‍💻 Brains are not computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_weZoxKmJA PART IV 💾 Download from the brain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdxFFAT_6WM Hey, thanks for watching! 😊 If you want to help grow this channel, just share a video with a friend or three! Shares make a HUGE difference and don't cost you anything at all. ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ ✨GO THANK OUR GUESTS! ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ Lietsel Richardson https://twitter.com/motherofneurons/ https://www.instagram.com/motherofneurons/ https://linktr.ee/motherofneurons Dr. Jessica Chen https://twitter.com/BluntDrJChen https://www.linkedin.com/in/BluntDrJChen/ Dr. Sharlene Flesher https://twitter.com/wishuponashar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharlene-flesher/ Join my patreon community (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ http://patreon.com/tracedominguez ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 👾👾👾 FIND ME ON SOCIAL ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ 🐤:: http://twitter.com/tracedominguez 📷:: http://instagram.com/tracedominguez 👴🏻:: http://facebook.com/official.tracedom... 🎮:: http://twitch.tv/mrtraced ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 📚📚📚 SOURCES ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ University of Connecticut’s Neural Symphony https://skoelab.uconn.edu/neural-symphony/#  You create music with your brain. Now, create music with someone else’s using the BRAIN PIANO. Quadriplegic woman gets chocolate fix using thought-controlled robotic arm https://newatlas.com/bci-thought-control-robotic-arm/25493/ Earlier this year, a 58 year-old woman who had lost the use of her limbs was successfully able to drink a cup of coffee by herself using a robotic arm controlled by her thoughts via a brain computer interface (BCI). Degrees of Freedom https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-to-control-a-machine-with-your-brain For eighteen years, Jan Scheuermann has been paralyzed from the neck down. She is six feet tall, and she spends all day and all night in a sophisticated, battery-powered wheelchair that cradles her—half sitting, half reclining—from head to toe. In effect, the chair has become an extension of her body. This New Yorker article is SO GOOD. — trace Learn more about Jan from this talk she gave at St. Francis University Author Speaks About Her Life With Quadriplegia | Saint Francis University Author Jan Scheuermann spoke at Saint Francis University to a crowd of more than 200 people at the JFK Student Center about her life as a person with quadriplegia taking part in a groundbreaking UPMC study. The fascinating lecture was hosted by the Literature & Languages department. Mind-Reading AI Optimizes Images Reconstructed from Your Brain Waves https://thenewstack.io/mind-reading-ai-optimizes-images-reconstructed-brain-waves/ ‘The meme of mind-reading machines have been a recurring science-fiction staple for decades. Yet more than ever, that futuristic fantasy seems closer to reality, thanks to recent advances in the development of artificially intelligent, “deep” neural networks. Actual paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/12/30/240317.full.pdf?utm_source=thenewstack&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=platform A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06694-6 How voltage readings from individual neurons could power the next revolution in neuroscience. Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator Love you, #nerdfam! Stay #curious!