User:Toussaint/BCI-assisted telepathy

After writing a bit about how a combination of augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces and Second Life could bring about an avatar-based telepresence, it seems less like a far fetch to utilize and extend this method into the realm of computer assisted telepathy.

In the case of telepathy, it can be taken as possessing two meanings:
 * the ability to legibly sense the thoughts of others from within their minds
 * the ability to communicate one's own thoughts, or leave one's own impressions, into another person's mind using one's brain

Plus, what does such BCI-assisted telepathy manifest itself as upon the reception of the telepathically-transferred data as information? Would it be through directly sending information that can be sensed through any one or more of the five main senses only by the intended receiver(s)? Plus, if the person wanted to latently lurk within another person's thoughts, would the reception of information, again, be manifested in signals which can be best interpreted by any one or more of the five senses? Apparently, it seems to make more sense to use mind-to-sense communication given the limitations of computer recognition of neural signals (computers can translate neural signals into digital signals, but they can't translate digital signals into neural signals); the next best thing would be to use a neurally-remote-controlled avatar to digitally visualize neural signals emanating from another, similarly equipped user.

I'd like to entertain the idea of "neural cameras" which can capture the neural signals and translate them into a general pseudo-region that one's avatar can walk into through a hyperframe; this means that, just like most P2P file-sharing networks like Gnutella, only whatever the receiver allows to be available from the receiver's mind is available for access to and by the sender of the avatar. Furthermore, this would involve the construction of a self-hosted virtual world that resides primarily on a user's computer and emanates from his or her own mind. It's rather indirect in this approach, but it is (at this point) the most likely way to get a foot in the door of the mind.

Plus, if we're talking about P2P copy access to virtual renderings of neurally-originated objects and conceptions, then it also makes sense for virtual private networks to be created over similar protocols to allow one user (via avatar) to take an active role inside the mind, or virtual rendering thereof, of another similarly-equipped user on the P2P neural metaverse.