Adding, "Not the way we have done it, not with technology that's available now, but maybe that's something that could eventually be developed."
According to Quartz, the research where scientists transmit thoughts was in part funded by the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technology program.
But despite the breakthrough from the Harvard team, it also poses a warning to the future. It is indeed valuable for patients with communication problems. However, if misused, it could reportedly have a devastating impact, since it could pave the way for humans to read each others' minds without consent.
Bustle agrees and said that it could change the whole nature of our social interactions. For example - the government hacking into the public's brainwaves, instead of texts.
Pascual-Leone said, "I always worry that as we do this initial step with healthy subjects, even under all the regulatory oversight, that it could lend itself to the fancy of people who just want to play with it."
Meanwhile, the current level of research where scientists transmit thoughts still hold no threat, as the participants needed be hooked up to sophisticated hardware and both were required full, conscious cooperation. They also had to be trained for the task.
But in the study's conclusion, it said there, "The widespread use of human brain-to-brain technologically mediated communication will create novel possibilities for human interrelation with broad social implications that will require new ethical and legislative responses."
Scientists transmit thoughts sound such a new and exciting breakthrough, but the discovery is a double-edged sword. It could be the start of something immensely good, or extremely bad.
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