{"id":2580,"date":"2012-06-26T06:25:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T06:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2019-01-12T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T16:41:48","slug":"scientists-trying-to-hack-into-stephen-hawkings-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/featured\/scientists-trying-to-hack-into-stephen-hawkings-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Trying To Hack Into Stephen Hawking\u2019s Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"
A team of scientists from Stanford are planning to sit\u00a0Stephen Hawking down in a room, place a device on his head, and literally\u00a0hack his brain<\/a>\u00a0to figure out what is going on there inside it.<\/p>\n The scientists have developed a tool called iBrain and they will do this at a conference\u00a0in Cambridge, UK, next month.\u00a0Philip Low, a professor at Stanford and inventor of the\u00a0iBrain<\/a>,\u00a0explains to the Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n “This is very exciting for us because it allows us to have a window into the brain. We’re building technology that will allow humanity to have access to the human brain for the first time… We’d like to find a way to bypass [Stephen’s] body, pretty much hack his brain.”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Stephen Hawing is suffering\u00a0from a motor neurone disease and had lost his power of speech nearly 30 years ago. The scientists are planning to use their technology\u00a0to recognize his high-level brain activity\u00a0(which is supposed to be higher than most of us)\u00a0in order to understand it and convert it into speech and movement.<\/p>\n While such technology has been in development for a long time, it’s worked with mixed results. For it to be at a stage where Stephen Hawking is willing to sit on a stage to demonstrate its abilities\u2014well, that could signal that something quite special is about to happen.<\/p>\n