Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves

KW want to think of a sound and have it come straight out of a speaker. That's completely difft to what those scientist guys did.

Hmmm. I've heard three different versions of this Kraftwerk-make-brain-muzak story:

1) They'll make music that sounds the same as Old-Skool Kraftwerk, except that all instruments are to be controlled telepathically
2) Brainwaves turned directly into music
3) THOUGHTS turned directly into music.

Well, these scientists proved that #2 is trivially easy. But I still think #1 or (especially) #3 would be the most interesting. (As is you "hear" Florian singing...but he never...uses...his...voicebox...just...his...brain.
But I don't think anybody understands the human brain well enough to do #3. Mores the pity.

haha when i was growing up they used to always be saying that in the future our heads wd be really big because of all the new knowledge in out brains and our fingers would get long and spindly cz we didn't really need to use em much any more

It would make it easier to phone home.

I dont think they proved #2 at all... without reading the study I dont know

Hmm well first off, I would ask - how do you define "music"? Is it anything auditory? Because brain waves sound nothing like music. So what is the resemblance that allows this article to refer to these sounds as music?

Also, when they say "fell asleep faster"- what was this compared to? Someone just lying there? Did they have a control condition where the people listened to "real" music?

Yeah Im being too serious here, forgive me but this interests me terribly