BrainGate first implant
🔬 Achieved by scienceA quadriplegic moved a cursor, switched a TV and controlled a robot hand via a 96-electrode array in the motor cortex.
VerdictThe first human case of mind-controlling devices.
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Technopathy
Controlling electronic devices, networks
Reality check‘Mind-controlling machines’ is already real — BrainGate (2006), Neuralink (2024); mind ‘jamming’ of electronics (the Pauli effect, SLIders) is just anecdote.
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Neuralink’s first patient Noland Arbaugh
🔬 Achieved by scienceAfter the implant he played chess and ‘Civilization VI’ by thought, shown live.
VerdictCommercial brain-computer interfaces enter human trials.
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Tianjin Univ’s ‘Brain Talker’ chip
🔬 Achieved by scienceA BCI-dedicated chip unveiled at the World Robot Conference, for mind-typing and control.
VerdictA landmark Chinese BCI result.
The Pauli effect
📜 On recordNobel physicist Pauli allegedly broke equipment merely by entering a lab; Otto Stern banned him, and Pauli discussed ‘synchronicity’ with Jung.
VerdictA famous physics joke.
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Electronic voice phenomena (EVP)
📜 On record‘Hearing’ the dead speak in recording noise.
VerdictPareidolia.
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