Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a world where people will communicate directly with each other through telepathy.
"One day, I believe we’ll be able to send full rich thoughts to each other directly using technology," Zuckerberg, 31, wrote in response to a question Tuesday in
a Q&A with Facebook users. "You’ll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too."
Among those participating in the hourlong session were Arianna Huffington, founder and owner of The Huffington Post, and actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Washington Post examined Zuckerberg's view through brief descriptions of how the brain works — "your nervous system is composed of cells called neurons, which communicate with each other using chemical signals called neurotransmitters" — and discussions of a variety of telepathy experiments.
These include one by the University of California that measured the brain activity of participants as they watched videos — and then reconstructed the videos solely based on the brain activity.
Another one included implanting transmitters into the brains of mice, as was done in a Duke University experiment in 2013.
The report also raised the ethical implications of telepathy and its research, some of which were put forth in an academic paper published online by three researchers last year.
The paper "warned that there is neither legislation nor formal academic protocol for this type of research. (The writers predicted that could eventually provoke 'public uproar.')," the Post reports.
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