The Development of Telepathic Technologies

CST 111: Internet Commerce

Brian Ghilliotti

April 2nd, 2019

 I have always been fascinated with telepathic communication. I have studied the
UFO phenomena, and many abductees have claimed to mostly communicate with
aliens by using non-verbal, telepathic means. This has always made me wonder if this
capacity is biologically based, or perhaps based on technology. The fact that two differ-
ent species of living creatures, with supposedly very different brains, can still communi-
cate telepathically has made me lean toward the idea that these telepathic technologies
are more likely based on technologies built into the alleged space craft.
Even if these claims of telepathic communication with aliens is just science fic-
tion, there is currently much work being done to make technology based telepathic
communication a science fact. Some of the earliest studies I have identified toward de-
veloping telepathic communication involves an experiment by medical researchers from
the Barcelona based research lab Starlab, the French firm Axilum Robotics, and the
Harvard Medical School.
In their experiment, the research team first created a binary equivalent for the al-
phabet. Once this was established, a means of transmitting these “alphabits”, as I will
call them, was established by designating the movements of either hands or feet as the
transmission of either a 1 or 0. By these means, the sender transmitted the equivalent
of a digitally based, morse code like, series of word transmissions. This data was then
relayed to a computer that was in proximity to the receiver, using the internet, via e-mail.
On the other end, the message recipient was outfitted with a transcranial mag-
netic simulation system (TMS) on his head. The TMS was connected to the internet
linked computer, which processed the hand and foot generated binary 1/0 data from the
transmitter. The TMS is a non evasive way of stimulating the brains neurons by magnet-
ic fields.
When the recipients brain was stimulated, they would see either periods of light
flashes or no flashes of light, representing either the binary 1 or 0. A flash was designat-
ed as a 1, while a period of no flash was seen as zero. The recipient then carefully
recorded these patterns of lights and no lights, and parsed them to discern letters and
words.
This process took about 70 minutes to convey a message between a person in
India and a person in France. The original motive behind this experiment was to see if
there could be new ways to communicate over long distances for people who are signif-
icantly impaired. The University of Washington later tried a variation this experiment. In-
stead of using a TMS to generate binary data by generating flashes in the brain, it was
used to stimulate the patient’s motor cortex to involuntarily make them push a button on
a key board to generate binary data (1).
Mary Lou Jepsen, founder of the firm Open Water, is exploring different ap-
proaches toward developing telepathic technologies. In her approach (which is more
analog in nature) she is implementing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based tech-
nologies into a wearable ski hat. An MRI uses a combination of magnetic waves and ra-
dio wave technologies to develop imagery of a patient’s internal organs.
Jepsen has tweaked the MRI technology to have it focus on changes in blood
flow, specifically within the brain, by using infrared energy instead of microwave energy.
Jensen explains that infrared energy has the best penetrative qualities on the humans
while being comparatively more benign than other forms of electromagnetic spectrum
energies. By observing what areas of the brain are receiving higher concentrations of
blood flow, and transmitting that data to others who are linked by wearing similar
‘telepathy caps’, it would be possible to coney more complex ideas (2).
The article describing Jepsen’s system does not go into much detail about how
this infrared based data collection would be interpreted or transmitted, but the re-
searcher speculates that all wearers of these telepathic caps would be connected to an
area wide receiver, which would be cognizant of all telepathic cap wearers in a desig-
nated location. This technology will be different from wireless internet, where a signal is
transmitted by a central access point to receiving nodes.
In this set up, the telepathic cap wearers are acting as the equivalent of wireless
internet’s “central access point”. The area wide receiver would be constantly on the
passive lookout for these telepathic cap wearers. There would be no risk of harmful
electromagnetic energy exposure being transmitted by a device to a cap wearer. In this
system, all transmission signals are generated at the user-node level toward the area
wide receiver.
This would be an interesting system, as an area wide receiver could conceivably
be set to look for individual aspects of a person’s brainwave activity, or even simply look
for the equivalent for an MAC number electronically ingrained into a tracking device that
is embedded into the cap. The area wide receiver can compare the so called MAC ad-
dress of the telepathic cap with the biometric brain wave peculiarities of the person who
is supposed to be wearing it.
If there is a discontinuity, the area wide receiver would sense a security alert and
shut off the telepathic cap (as well as identify the location of the one who should not be
wearing the cap). This would act as a means of establishing privacy and security from
potential psychic peeping Tom’s. The implications of these technologies would be
tremendous, and would open up many doors to unexplored legal and ethical labyrinths
that have to be fully explored before this technology can be deployed in a commercially
usable form.
At this point, the researcher will brainstorm the various issues this technology
could open up. If two people are discussing the development of an idea by telepathic
communication, and it ends up becoming a patentable idea, who has the legal right to
patent it? A thought is a thought, it is not a record. Does this lead to the possibility that
all thoughts being shared via this technology must be recorded digitally? Would the area
wide receiver be the mechanism to do this? It would have to have quite a bit of memory
in this case.
Marc Fischer, of Dogtwon Media LLC, thinks that telepathic technologies should
be digitally recorded. As he states, “There is no reason why the synapses and neurons
in the brain can’t be cataloged, just like a text message would be, and delivered to the
person of choice (3).” It is a matter of time before people will argue that telepathic tech-
nologies MUST be subject to digital recording, as the capacity to initiate and coordinate
crimes will grow significantly for those who want to abuse these technologies.
Even people just listening to telepathic communication can gain information by
listening to chatter that can enhance their ability to commit a crime or act of terrorism. If
this digital monitoring system will have the capacity to digitally record all, it must also
know at all times everyone who is using it, whether they are ‘participating’ in it or not. In
this case, a telepathic technology system would make a significant departure from the
modern day internet, where you maintain relative anonymity.
 On the other side of the debate, there will be course of people who feel that digi-
tization of thoughts, generated on telepathic technological systems, will be the first step
toward a complete police state. They will wonder: “does this digital thought recording
system also include some sort of active monitoring system, a thought police mecha-
nism?” As this technology grows, and society ends up becoming potentially more de-
pendent on it, those who are opposed to the expansion of this technology will argue that
a thought policing system will become an inevitability.
I will argue that the first type crime that telepathic technologies will be used for is
inside trading, as initially this technology will probably be very expensive, and only be
financially accessible to the class of criminals who are drawn to inside trading plots. The
market manipulation implications of these technologies is practically a new dimension to
be explored. It is quite possible that inside trading abusers would actually coordinate
large scale market shifts to create panic, and carefully organize trades to maximize gain
in extreme volatile environments. This would require a massive and complex security
technology system to fight against this. This system would have to have a global reach.
There are some positive aspects of this telepathic based technology system.
Identity theft would almost be a thing of the past if people end up preferring to make
transactions through telepathic technology systems. If a transaction is to be approved, it
must come from a “telepanode” (C) (joke) that is generating a matched MAC identifier
with a unique biometric brainwave signature. Wouldn’t this be a great incentive for peo-
ple to start wanting to use it? Maybe it would be a great way to track crypto-currency
transactions as well? People losing their telepathic caps? Why not just embed a chip in
people?

Sources
(1) Iozzio, Corine. “Scientists Prove That Telepathic Communication Is Within Reach.” Smith
sonian.com. October 2, 2014. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientist
prove-that-telepathic-communication-is-within-reach-180952868/

(2) Clifford, Catherine. “This former Google[X] exec is building a high-tech hat that she
says will make telepathy possible in 8 years.” CNCB.com. July 7, 2017.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/07/this-inventor-is-developing-technology-that-
could-enable-telepathy.html

(3) Forbes Technology Council. “Is Tech-Boosted Telepathy On Its Way? Nine Tech Ex
perts Weigh In”. forbes.com. December 4, 2018.https://www.forbes.com/sites/
forbestechcouncil/2018/12/04/is-tech-boosted-telepathy-on-its-way-nine-tech-ex
perts-weigh-in/#66ed01a203f3