Talking Minds: Can Minds Talk to Other Minds?

Brain-to-brain interfaces potential to create a dual mind, a social network of connected brains, an AI of multiple human minds, and a lot more.

The development of language is arguably one of the most important innovations in human history. It has allowed us to communicate with one another in ways never thought possible — to communicate information so very precisely — and it has such a great linguistic diversity, with over 7000 different languages spoken around the world. Yet, language is still an imperfect means of communication: there is invariable some information lost when we transfer our thoughts to words and sometimes context can be hard to parse. We have had to deal with the limitations of language for the past ten thousand years, but with the emergence of even-improving neurotechnology, is it possible that we can eliminate this intermediate representation and facilitate direct mind-to-mind communication?

The human sensorimotor system provides a natural means for communication between individuals. Of course, the languages used to process and communicate this system’s information originates from the talking minds inside our brains. Little minds (or sets of neurons) talk to each other inside a person’s brain to accomplish all sorts of things…