Last time I wrote on this discussion we were talking about how the brain communicates with your muscles. If you don’t remember or are just joining us for the first time then hers a link to the first part of this discussion [post link here]
Now then if your all caught up then we can start with today’s topic which is how we can change the brains behaviors so that it can allow for BCI interaction on a new level. Currently, BCI’s only allow for the brain to send data to the computer however the goal of my project is to allow the brain to also, receive data so that it can process it into feeling.
Going off of what we learned last week we know that it is the receptors that process the commands that are given to your body. So, in that case we will need to take the current BCi systems and outfit them with a feedback system
The image above shows the way that current BCI systems work. First, it acquires the signal by scanning the part of your brain. next, it takes the signal and turns it into digital code where it can process it and give it life in the program. lastly, the BCI system uses the extracted code to perform the action that the person was thinking of. This is great for running a computer, but we still are running into the problem of no feeling. That’s where the feedback loop comes in. if we can have the system take data who says that we can’t have them do that function but in reverse.
This process would haft to be carefully deliberated because one wrong code and the program could fry a person’s brain. However, if we can make this work we could attack prognostics with temperature sensors and a sensor that detects textures. With these, we could then tell the BCI systems to run backward sending the data that the sensors get to the brain.
That’s all for this week come back next time where ill go more in-depth with how the new system will work.
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