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Brain scans reveal what you've seen
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This is extremely creepy. What if you imagined and thought of something for a long time? Would it say that you saw it?
I don't know, but I think it'd run into some difficulties into distinguishing between, say, having seen Poutine (a fine quebecois food dish) in its full glory and having seen a pr0n mag... 
But, seriously, what won the 'creepy' award for me was the experiment early in 1999 where Harvard researchers (Dr. Stanley and his team) successfully wired into a live cat's brain and converted brain activity into video, showing what it was seeing in a grainy video. Cool but creepy. Brought a new way of looking at what cats see when they live a day in their life. I haven't been able to find the research paper/results or video since, but I'm sure it's somewhere out there.
But, seriously, what won the 'creepy' award for me was the experiment early in 1999 where Harvard researchers (Dr. Stanley and his team) successfully wired into a live cat's brain and converted brain activity into video, showing what it was seeing in a grainy video. Cool but creepy.
Brought a new way of looking at what cats see when they live a day in their life. I haven't been able to find the research paper/results or video since, but I'm sure it's somewhere out there.
Leading edge researchers in this field have even found brain reactions in a salmon when pictures were shown to the fish. That is really astonishing, given that the salmon was actually quite dead during the test. See this Wired article.
Bottom line: the MRI method can easily produce false results if the data are not analyzed really, really carefully.
Bottom line: the MRI method can easily produce false results if the data are not analyzed really, really carefully.
Far more intesting: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/
Bit older, though. Sorry for the lack of linkage, I'm using the PS3's crappy browser.
Bit older, though. Sorry for the lack of linkage, I'm using the PS3's crappy browser.
How fascinating would it be to have the technology to make movies just by thinking. I know i have some wonderfully fun dreams that would be terrific in movie format, imagine the creative possibilities for invention and creation if instead of trying to describe a concept or idea you could just print it out.
I actually like that movie. A lot of people didn't thuo.
I think this is freaking cool. Also kind of reminds of the movie "Brainstorm" where they recorded what you experienced.... Ha this is pretty cool!
I really enjoyed the movie too! But I could understand why some people dislike the movie - the director kind of sucked.
I don't know, but I think it'd run into some difficulties into distinguishing between, say, having seen Poutine (a fine quebecois food dish) in its full glory and having seen a pr0n mag...
If a machine can't tell the difference between a serving of smothered pommes frites and an OB/GYN shot of some woman, then there is more than a bit of further refinement in store. That is, unless the woman hasn't been keeping... uhm, never mind; this is a family-friendly forum, after all.
(For the record, I've never had poutine, but it indeed sounds interesting.)
Do we really need a machine to tell us what men are picturing?
Now, if someone could decipher what's going on in women's heads, and explain it to us men in SHORT. SIMPLE. WORDS. then that would be a Nobel prize, right there..
Now, if someone could decipher what's going on in women's heads, and explain it to us men in SHORT. SIMPLE. WORDS. then that would be a Nobel prize, right there..
What if you brain is slightly different? The level of pictures related to a person's thinking vary a lot. I can rewind my memory like a DVD and remember number plates I see as I walk down the road, but I know someone who dosen't think in pictures at all.
Interesting and creepy experiment, though, and I hope it won't fall into the wrong hands!
Interesting and creepy experiment, though, and I hope it won't fall into the wrong hands!
24 would certainly become a lot less interesting!
"Where's the goddamn bomb? If you don't tel... Oh. It's in the box under the stairs? That's great, thanks very much.."
This is one step closer to Minority Report... they know what you're going to do before you do it.
I don't know, but I think it'd run into some difficulties into distinguishing between, say, having seen Poutine (a fine quebecois food dish) in its full glory and having seen a pr0n mag...
But, seriously, what won the 'creepy' award for me was the experiment early in 1999 where Harvard researchers (Dr. Stanley and his team) successfully wired into a live cat's brain and converted brain activity into video, showing what it was seeing in a grainy video. Cool but creepy.
wouldnt just putting a camera on the cats head sort of accomplish the same task? or put camera glasses on the cat?
I think it's got much promise for diagnosis, but will never be admissible legally, similar to a polygraph.
The reason is the same as with any other evaluation of human behaviour: We can study graphology, but it's hardly an exact science and there are any number of schools of thought with several different interpretations; We can read body language, but there again if you pick up any two books - written by experts, mind - after they cover the basics they're off like tangents.
The only consistent thing is that it can greatly help the diagnosee's opinion only if taken in context with other factors.
It's interesting from a purely scientific point of view; but it will be many, many years before they can even come close to anything we'd even remotely consider "reading thought".
Books on group and social behaviour patterns are the creepy ones. Milgrim's experiment comes to mind...
The reason is the same as with any other evaluation of human behaviour: We can study graphology, but it's hardly an exact science and there are any number of schools of thought with several different interpretations; We can read body language, but there again if you pick up any two books - written by experts, mind - after they cover the basics they're off like tangents.
The only consistent thing is that it can greatly help the diagnosee's opinion only if taken in context with other factors.
It's interesting from a purely scientific point of view; but it will be many, many years before they can even come close to anything we'd even remotely consider "reading thought".
Books on group and social behaviour patterns are the creepy ones. Milgrim's experiment comes to mind...
Wow... a lie detector!!!
Just imagine... you cheat on your girlfriend, she calls you to come to her place to scan your brain to see if you are inocent or guilty!!!!
Everything you do is recorded in your brain, specially the bad thing you do not want anybody to find out.
The posibilities are endless and the applications will chanmge everything, a bigger impact than TV or Internet or even the phone.
Just imagine... you cheat on your girlfriend, she calls you to come to her place to scan your brain to see if you are inocent or guilty!!!!
Everything you do is recorded in your brain, specially the bad thing you do not want anybody to find out.
The posibilities are endless and the applications will chanmge everything, a bigger impact than TV or Internet or even the phone.
Wouldn't this lead to movie studios having the right to "refresh" our brains at the end of movies or otherwise require some sort of DRM or payment for being allowed to live? After all, couldn't this be used to make pirated copies? And even an infant could be brought into a theater to play the role of human camcorder...
By the time this tech hits the streets, the current entertainment industry business model will be dead... Hopefully... Else, we're all doomed!