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Thought waveforms 🧠
Started August 24th, 2023 · 5 replies · Latest reply by deleted_user_1089955 2 years, 1 month ago
Does anyone know anything about thought waveforms?
Is there a link between telepathy, thoughts and music?
The jury is out on listening to binaural beats changing brainwaves ...
According to a 2023 systematic review, studies have investigated some of the claimed positive effects in the areas of cognitive processing, affective states (like anxiety), mood, pain perception, meditation and relaxation, mind wandering, creativity, but the techniques were not comparable and results were inconclusivehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)#Binaural_beats
Not a very inspiring response but....
I can not point to any evidence at all, but what I have read/heard leads me to the tentative conclusion that the "thinking" brain acts more like MIDI generating "music in your head" from samples stored in memory evoking an emotional response. I think it unlikely there are any "waveforms" involved any more than the word "bang" written on paper generates a sound in it's own right. I'm sure an AI Brain-Machine interface could generate beautiful and quite unique sounds, but it would be done in the same way.
I don't personally believe in telepathy other than our incredible ability to extract information from microscopically subtle cues we give out in our expressions and behaviour.
(Hahaa.. edited after I actually read the question properly)
strangely_gnarled wrote:
... . I'm sure an AI Brain-Machine interface could generate beautiful and quite unique sounds ...
There are sonifications of EEG (brainwave) traces, but IMO they are misleading:
the brainwave signals are triggering musical samples, rather than being musical themselves ...
https://vimeo.com/17114931
I have rigged synths to work on both EEG and EKG before. It takes a long time and a lot of concentration to adjust any parameters, and the result is pretty boring. You could achieve equivalent results with seismograph data or even a couple of LFOs.