Mind May Affect Machines

by Kim Zetter Wired News, 19 Jul 2005 For 26 years, strange conversations have been taking place in a basement lab at Princeton University. No one can hear them, but they can see their apparent effect: balls that go in certain directions on command, water fountains that seem to rise higher with a wish and drums that quicken their beat. Yet no one hears the conversations because they occur between the minds of experimenters and the machines they will to action. Read more