{"id":1139,"date":"2011-03-11T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2018-08-04T14:34:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:34:57","slug":"memory-helmet-memoryhelmet-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/memory-helmet-memoryhelmet-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Helmet MemoryHelmet.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a permanent record of the stream of consciousness within the brain. …hidden in the interpretive areas of the temporal lobes, there a key mechanism that unlocks the past… (Penfield, PNAS, 1958)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Update 7\/14 Wow! DARPA just funded<\/a>, to the tune of $37 million, two research teams to explore how memories are stored and formed. Both teams will use implanted electrical devices to measure and record brain function around memory.]<\/p>\n

[Update 10\/13 We’re getting closer! Check out this article about DARPA funding transcranial ultrasound stimulation<\/a> which can access and modulate deep into the brains accessing targets to a finely focused degree.]<\/p>\n

Now hear me out… and check out the video below the photo. When I was a kid I saw a documentary on Dr. Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon and a pioneer of surgical techniques especially related to epilepsy. In the documentary, Dr. Penfield had a patient lying on her side, conscious, while her brain was exposed. He applied a very small electrical current using a two-pronged probe to the surface of her brain, and the patient instantly had the memory of sitting by the fireplace around the Christmas tree as a young girl. She described the room in detail. She recalled the conversation. Wow! I thought. Someday we’ll be able to put a helmet on our head and navigate our memories with a joy stick.
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