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Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:40 pm
Helices says...



Could anyone give me a good link for maybe a scientific study on how mind reading could be realistically achieved by beings? Im writing a story with mind reading potentially in it and I want it to be as scientifically accurate as possible. Im having trouble finding any on my own.

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Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:36 am
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http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl ... a=N&tab=ws

This is a link to all the results google spat out at me via the "scholar" section. That means that all these links are "published" and accepted literary works amongst their fields.

Hope that helps :P

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Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:08 pm
Lava says...



You should try looking up this one concept a professor of mine told.

'Brain waves are electrochemical signals, so if there is a receiver of sorts that can read this signal, then one can read minds.'
This is like how the receiver of your radio knows which frequency to select, if there was a way of a person's brain selecting the frequency of brain waves, and is able to decipher them, then it would be mind reading. Think of it as analogous to speech and hearing where unless your ear gets the info and is able to decipher, it will end up as a bunch of garbled sounds.

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Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:17 am
Georgiexx says...



Hey, im writing a novel with a similar twist.

Try looking up brain waves or telepathy. This site may help a bit,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy
http://www.psychic101.com/brainwaves-be ... delta.html

Also you could include a ganzfeld cocoon, which is basically a test which cuts off your senses. look it up.

Also you could include crystals, they apparently can store and/or enhance physic energy.

But defintly research brain waves, there are four different brain waves; Beta, Alpha,Theta and Delta.
But you will wanting to focus on Alpha, where the physic abilities are found.

hope i helped,
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