'Telepathy' experiment sends 1st mental message

I'm going to keep my cellphone.

look at the science news, for instance:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/computermediated-telepathy

other research specialists refer to this as a publicity stunt. of course this is not direct brain to brain communication

NOT telepathy.

Because jamming electrodes in your brain is better than talking/typing?

I'm sure the NSA will figure out a way to 'tap' those messages as well to spy on us followed shortly there after by big telecoms figuring out a way to bill us for each message sent.

Here's a hint: if it says "Then, this message was emailed from India to France, and delivered via robot to the receiver..." it ain't telepathy! So they were "able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two.." Uh! Email, wires, electricity...technology is doing all the work and is a form of "extended" contact!!

THIS is what passes for "scientific research" at Harvard these days?!

Despite the attention grabbing headline, this is about as telepathic as two kids with dixie cups and string.

God lord were they wearing aprons?

Meh, what's the excitement about? It's just like what we already know is technically possible, done over the Internet. Having evidence for real telepathy... Now that would be newsworthy!

"About a decade", multiple teams around the world, and this is what we've got.

FarmboySep. 06, 2014 - 08:27AM JST

of course this is not direct brain to brain communication

Nice article, but how do you know? One of the guys is from Harvard, which doesn't usually allow really sloppy work, and a professor in neurology ought to know something about his own field.

How does he know? Because the message manifested as blinking in the optical field, which means the electrodes were probably connected to the optical nerve, not into the brain. In effect this technology is google glasses without the glasses.

It is cool, but it isn't telepathy or even brain to brain communication.

It's not Telepathy - as the experiment used a medium of some Language (like "hola" or "ciao") A child is sleeping comfortably in a cradle, and its Mom is busy in the kitchen. The child is now awake in the cradle...the Mom gets the 'message' by Telepathy - she rushes to the cradle AT THE MOMENT her child is awake. This is the most practical example of Telepathy we experience in our day-to-day Life. There are no electronic gadgets - no Internet - and NO LANGUAGE involved in this.

Still uses internet, so in short, it's internet not telepathy. Case Closed

Wake me up when they can replicate Vulcan mind melds.

I'll cancel my iPhone order now.

Rube Goldberg would be proud!

Don't take your tin foil hats off or the govt will know what you are thinking.

I was going to say James Randi should take a look at this, but in the even what the article describes is not telepathy, but simply recording of brain waves; something that has been around for a long time. Nothing new, really.

I know people need funding and headlines.. but I really wish they wouldn't use pseudo science nonsense terms when doing scientific research.

Nothing to do with telepathy whatsoever, but you can be sure some misguided person who can't read past the headline will use this to suggest it is possible..

Much like the Higgs Boson/God particle thing... it really grinds my gears.