{"id":2520,"date":"2014-11-11T19:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2014-11-17T21:29:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:29:57","slug":"the-power-of-thought-can-flip-a-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-power-of-thought-can-flip-a-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of thought can flip a switch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The study upon which this report was made is unusual, but the message is clear: thoughts have power.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, brainwaves from human participants activated a tiny LED light which had been implanted in mice which then activated light-sensitive genes.<\/p>\n<p>This study is the first to combine the thought control technology and the light sensitive genes technology.\u00a0 The light-sensitive engineered genes sound a bit unnatural to me, but the idea of thoughts influencing external objects seems intuitive.\u00a0 Maybe if we can understand the science better, telepathic skills could be developed.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of emerging technology has potential applications for patients who can no longer communicate with the outside world other than with their mental activities and brainwaves.<\/p>\n<p>It also proves that our thoughts do make the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-header\">BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-29974833\">Scientists develop thought-controlled gene switch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study upon which this report was made is unusual, but the message is clear: thoughts have power. In the study, brainwaves from human participants activated a tiny LED light which had been implanted in mice which then activated light-sensitive genes. This study is the first to combine the thought control technology and the light &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-power-of-thought-can-flip-a-switch\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The power of thought can flip a switch.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-EE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}