Neurophone?

[Dingus]

I was looking up information on Pat Flanagan's Neurophone, wanting to build one cheaply on my own (instead of his $100-$800 models) when I came across this sentence:

Later embodiments of his device appear to be based on the observation that our neural systems are set up to receive and decode external stimuli as sharp, transient spikes which represent a conversion of smoothly-varying analog sound pressure waves into time-coded "digital" nerve impulses.

Just reading "transient" made my mind jump directly to Eric Dollard, since he's the only person I ever hear use that word. I was wondering if anyone had any idea if there's any connection between the neurophone & his method for making tesla coil speakers?

Also; if anyone had advice on making a neurophone without a TL494 I'd greatly appreciate it.

[Aaron]

New Neurophone

I was looking up information on Pat Flanagan's Neurophone, wanting to build one cheaply on my own (instead of his $100-$800 models) when I came across this sentence:
Just reading "transient" made my mind jump directly to Eric Dollard, since he's the only person I ever hear use that word. I was wondering if anyone had any idea if there's any connection between the neurophone & his method for making tesla coil speakers?

Also; if anyone had advice on making a neurophone without a TL494 I'd greatly appreciate it.

Phisciences - Patrick Flanagan $99 model coming if there's enough interest.

[Dingus]

Yes, I've heard. I can't imagine that new model being of any interest, since I hear his current $800 model being poor quality & prone to overheating as is. I can only imagine his newer model would place more emphasis on bone-conducting ultrasound effect than on the purely electrical effect the early models supposedly used. His 'real' models supposedly used copper covered with mylar as electrodes, yet his past several models use piezos, needing to be placed on or near the head, which defeats many of my reasons for wanting it in the first place.

Another quote I read that reminded me of Eric's work:

The head and its distributed dielectric qualities was the dielectric of a higher voltage capacitor! Since the left and right Neurophone electrode signals were 180 degrees out of phase with respect to each other, the EM signals canceled each other somewhere in the middle of the head. Since the EM signals canceled we had a powerful scalar vector left over right where we wanted it, inside the brain!

Despite his use of "scalar" which he seems to use instead of dielectricity, the part about the signals being 180° out of phase immediately reminded me of the CIG. If there's any real significance to that, I don't know. Have any living things been placed in the CIG instead of a lightbulb?

[James Barker]

Interesting idea. "Living things inside a CIG" sounds like the Lakhovsky oscillator version that Eric developed, with the twin coils.

I looked up the Neurophone, and the following comment suggests you may be on to something:

For example just generating a 40kHz square wave is not enough, I believe it’s crucial for the output stage slew rate to be fast enough. (The TL494 is a chip that happens to have a fast slew rate output stage.) In other words the Neurophone is based on an old Nikola Tesla invention, the “hairpin circuit.”

There may be more to it too, I’ve never seen a real Neurophone in person.

[Dingus]

I've never noticed similarities between it & the hairpin circuit, not to say there aren't any, but I haven't seen any neurophone schematics other than that one using the TL494. Maybe it is just a version of Eric's MWO with amplitude &/or pulse-width modulated input that uses skin electrodes instead of the antenna. I was actually thinking of asking Eric about the neurophone in my latest letter, but I figured he'd have nothing to say about it.

[Sputins]

Re-incarnation?

I was actually thinking of asking Eric about the neurophone in my latest letter, but I figured he'd have nothing to say about it.

I’d also say you might be onto something, particularly with regard to the early models that may have been more electrical in nature. After all, the device was apparently “Classified” at one point.

I think Eric may be somewhat annoyed (pi$$3d) at Flanagan, because in a 2012 coast to coast AM interview (and PES), Flanagan claims that he is the re-incarnation of Tesla himself! I’m not too sure about that! (If anyone is its probably Dollard). I remember Eric making a remark about that, so perhaps he may have heard that CTC episode himself?

Anyway, the episode was 10th July 2012.
Tesla, Energy, & Reincarnation - Shows - Coast to Coast AM

I downloaded the episode at the time, (I need to check the status of my mediafire account in order to share it though, I think it has expired).

If anyone is highly interested in the CTC episode, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. You might find it on a torrent site?

[Dingus]

I've looked all over & I can't find anything where Eric comments on Flanagan. Not to say he hasn't, just that I haven't found it.

[Sputins]

I've looked all over & I can't find anything where Eric comments on Flanagan. Not to say he hasn't, just that I haven't found it.

I think it was mentioned on one of the many (radio / phone) interviews Eric has done, (don’t know which one) but Flanagan’s name wasn’t actually mentioned directly, only hint of a reference about the Tesla reincarnation aspect. It wasn’t too long after the CTC program aired, so I did wonder about it at the time.
Having said that, there are certainly some valid inventions and products that Flanagan has produced, he is certainly a clever individual. He might be a tad too far on the new-age, hippy-side for my liking, but each to their own I suppose.

[Dingus]

Personally, even Eric is far too on the new-age for me, but I see the value in some of his work, same goes for Flanagan. At least with Eric I can respect that he hasn't turned it into an obvious money-making scheme.

[Dingus]

Looks like he upped the price to $400. But at least now the shyster only selling them for 8 times what the parts are worth.
And it seems his crowd-funding campaign has been funded in a single day: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/n...itation-device

[Marcus Neuhof]

I did some Excel calculations to see if those "private" donations were tipping the scale on that crowdfunder. Of 361 donations with listed donation amounts, those donations total $97,769 with an average donation of $270.82. Total raised as of writing is $100,502.

Either his social media man has a massive collection of credit cards or it's legit.

[Dingus]

I suspected as much too, but remember that he's been promoting the "new" $100 Neurophone for at least the past 4 months with a facebook page & an email mailing list before the crowdfunder even started, so he might have had some idea of how much people were willing to pay even before the donations even started. From there he could set the bar just low enough to guarantee the goal would be met.

[Marcus Neuhof]

I was actually thinking of asking Eric about the neurophone in my latest letter, but I figured he'd have nothing to say about it.

Did you ever get a chance to ask Eric about the Neurophone?

[Dingus]

I meant to, but it's something I never really got around to doing. I considered writing him a letter, but never quite knew what to say or how to say it.