Humans are 'all connected by special WI-FI in our brains'
Humans are 'all connected by special WI-FI in our brains'
DO you ever wonder why you are often on the same wavelength as another person?
Well it turns out that could be because human brains are all interconnected.
Scientists claim people have a type of “wi-fi” which lets them pick up more information about others than we are aware of.
They believe that as well as using language, the brain also picks up tiny micro-signals that let it know what someone is thinking.
It explains how people sometimes have a “gut feeling” about something without being able to explain why.
Professor Digby Tantam of the University of Sheffield has been researching into how people communicate an published his findings in a new book – The Interbrain.
According to the Sunday Telegraph he said: “We can know directly about other people’s emotions and what they are paying attention to.
“It is based on the direct connection between our brains and other people’s and between their brain and ours.
“I call this the interbrain.”
He also says that people are drawn together at football matches, concerts and religious ceremonies because of the so-called interbrain.
Prof Tantam added: “Being in crowd mode may also make us experience what it would be like to transcend out perspective, our time, our place and our capacity, to feel for a moment, like a driving being.”
But he does say this special way of communicating needs to be done in person.
He said: “Emotional contagion occurs at the speed of light, not the speed of electronic transmission.
“Face-to-face visual input is accompanied by sound, by gesture, by the smell of sweat, by the possibility of touch, and by a connect.”
Humans are 'all connected by special WI-FI in our brains'
DO you ever wonder why you are often on the same wavelength as another person?
Well it turns out that could be because human brains are all interconnected.
Scientists claim people have a type of “wi-fi” which lets them pick up more information about others than we are aware of.
They believe that as well as using language, the brain also picks up tiny micro-signals that let it know what someone is thinking.
It explains how people sometimes have a “gut feeling” about something without being able to explain why.
Professor Digby Tantam of the University of Sheffield has been researching into how people communicate an published his findings in a new book – The Interbrain.
According to the Sunday Telegraph he said: “We can know directly about other people’s emotions and what they are paying attention to.
“It is based on the direct connection between our brains and other people’s and between their brain and ours.
“I call this the interbrain.”
He also says that people are drawn together at football matches, concerts and religious ceremonies because of the so-called interbrain.
Prof Tantam added: “Being in crowd mode may also make us experience what it would be like to transcend out perspective, our time, our place and our capacity, to feel for a moment, like a driving being.”
But he does say this special way of communicating needs to be done in person.
He said: “Emotional contagion occurs at the speed of light, not the speed of electronic transmission.
“Face-to-face visual input is accompanied by sound, by gesture, by the smell of sweat, by the possibility of touch, and by a connect.”
