Consciousness The greatest error, which I have committed, has been in not allowing sufficient weight to the direct action of the environments. Charles Darwin
In 2006, Drs. Eric C. Leuthardt and Daniel Moran, Assistant Professors at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, implanted a special electro-corticographic (ECoG) grid into the brain of a 14-year old boy, in an effort to help control his epilepsy. The grid, which is used to record brain surface signals, was connected to a computer that was running a special video game program. From the data that was collected, the researchers were able to adjust the grid to correlate to the brain signals that produced the movements the boy made with his hands when he played the video game.
After he was then asked
not to use his hands to perform those movements, but to simply imagine them occurring on the computer screen, the boy was able to learn to control the game using only his imagination.3 The mind is more powerful than any particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optic. Terence McKenna
Over the past decade, a team of researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey has been conducting experiments to measure the effects of human consciousness when focused on random events.
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