Introduction

Will there be a day when you say “I can’t read your mind, you know!!” and the reply will be, “Oh! Stop it. Of course you can!”

It is possible with the help of ‘Neuro-hacking’. The word “Neuro hacking” sounds a little futuristic, a little too on the nose and ripped straight from the Matrix movies or an old sci-fi book. Neuro hacking is the colloquial term for D-I-Y neuro-engineering. It is a form of bio-hacking focusing on the brain and CNS. Let’s take a common example, say, having a cup of coffee. The chemical properties of caffeine affect your central nervous system and therefore your brain, increasing mental energy and focus. When you sip on that morning cup, you are ingesting a substance that enhances your performance. So, in a way, you are hacking your consciousness. Strictly speaking, it is any method of manipulating or interfering with the structure or function of neurons for improvement or repair.

• Describing Neurohacking:

A. Conscious Hacking - the consciousness hacking community takes empowered responsibility in using technology as a catalyst for psychological, emotional and spiritual flourishing.

B. Bio-hacking - this type of hacking generally focuses on the body.

C. NeuroHacking - It concentrates on mind-brain interface, intersection of consciousness, it involves science and technology to influence brain and body.

• Goals for Neurohacking:

The main goal of Neurohacking is optimal mental health. The other goals include damage repair, stimulated reality, prevention of disease and augmentation of abilities or of intelligence overall. It utilizes information and technology mainly from the field of epigenetic, bio-neuro feedback, psycho-pharmacology.

Modern Application:

Caffeine, alcohol, over the counter medicine, and other drugs are form of neurohacking. Each one of these substances alters or tricks the brain into desirable conditions. Alcohol is an example of a form of neuro hacking which affects multi neurotransmitters instead of just one. This causes all sorts of reactions, including liveliness and excitement.

Recent Invention:

A team of scientists have invented a device that can control neural circuits using a tiny brain implant controlled by a Smartphone. The device could speed up efforts to uncover brain diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, addiction, depression, and pain. "The wireless neural device enables chronic chemical and optical neuro-modulation that has never been achieved before,” " said lead author Raza Qazi, a researcher with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder.