Michio Kaku Chat Transcript
Discovery: What would you see and experience if the clocks rolled forward 50 years? Physicist and 2057 host Michio Kaku is here for the next hour to answer your questions about our possible futures. So ask away!
andres: What about advances in neurotechnology? Will we be able to achieve technological telepathy?
Dr. Kaku: I think a limited form of telepathy may be possible in the coming decades. At the very minimum, we should be able to create a dictionary of thought. That is, a one to one correspondence between certain MRI and EEG patterns, and certain specific thought patterns. However, at the present time, we cannot even reliably detect when a person is telling a lie. But in the next decade, we will be able to establish that certain thoughts like love, hate, lying, or telling the truth, correspond to certain neural pathways as detected by MRI and EEG scans. So I don't think we will have perfect telepathy, but I do think we will eventually construct a dictionary of thought.
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