Brainwave entrainment is a relatively new technology that uses binaural beats to change the frequency of your brainwaves. starseed Through the work of motor-cortex-BMI pioneer company BrainGate , here's a guy playing a video game using only his mind. For more information check out this article on How Meditation Changes the Brain. Adam Warren's version of the Dirty Pair has this as a common technology, which plays a role in several of the plots — such as when a rogue agent uses an emergency backup of Yuri's mind and DNA to grow his own Evil Twin to send at the originals.

The Terminal Experiment has a scientist scan and copy his mind three times, to run an experiment: One is left without knowledge of mortality to simulate immortality, another is stripped of all physical sense, to explore a disembodied afterlife, and one is left unaltered as a control.

Ray Kurzweil's book How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (2013), exemplifies this perspective, speculating about the ‘algorithms' of the brain, how the brain ‘processes data', and even how it superficially resembles integrated circuits in its structure.

Christoph Rissner describes in his article at IICM site his implementation of data exchange between FreeMind and MindManager. These empowering downloads and mp3s are specifically fashioned to produce changes in our brainwave patterns and this can create many unusual and effective results without requiring the mastery of meditation and zen Buddhism.

Then when they link up that data to a computer screen, the person can use their mind, via trying” to move the cursor, to really control the cursor. In the Black Market universe, people can be downloaded into Soul Jars, while machine minds are relegated to Turing Jars.