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Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

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Re: Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

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How long until we see the headline “Summons allows court to monitor brains replaying memories in real time”

In the U.S constitutional complaint about right against self-incrimination. But if it worked well it would be too useful to let that right stand, so I'm sure the courts would decide it was not covered by the right.

I'm sure they'd apply the same thing to it as they did with polygraphs.

Re: Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the U.S constitutional complaint about right against self-incrimination. But if it worked well it would be too useful to let that right stand, so I'm sure the courts would decide it was not covered by the right.

I'm sure they'd apply the same thing to it as they did with polygraphs.

If the memory monitor was shown to be 95% accurate in some study I'm not so sure you would be allowed to get out of it.

Re: Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

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This begs the question of why they used animals for 20 years.

They will keep using animals because we know fuck all about how actually brains work and you cannot slice human brains and probe them to see electrical properties all the time since they are supply-constrained. This study is using a information channel of very very high-level, top-down approach.

Re: Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

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I think this is good place to remind everyone that your brain doesn't actually remember events. It only remembers the last time you remembered it. Every time you access a memory it's a lossy rewrite influenced by the emotions you are currently feeling and other memories you associate with it.

Re: Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

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What a timely article, as I JUST watched Brainstorm for the first time tonight. The story is exactly this.

Movies like "Brainstorm": "The Final Cut" "Strange Days" "Total Recall" "Altered States" "Lawnmower Man" "Ex Machina" "The Thirteenth Floor" "The Truman Show" "Inception" "Selfless" "Flatliners"

Re: Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

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post #8

One of the most fascinating things this article claims is that apparently these scientists were able to detect the firing of individual neurons. I have briefly looked up some of the technologies involved in brain scanning before and if this is true it would be greatly exceeding typical resolutions.

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Re: Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time

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I’ve always wondered if there is a way to stimulate a brain so that you could replay a memory so vividly that it practically feels like you are there reliving it again, like the way you might experience a dream but with more clarity, almost like a form of time travel. I remember reading about some experiment in a psychology class where an old woman’s brain was probed and she was able to hear her highschool graduation…

It's still very sci-fi now, but I would bet a fiver that in my life time-ish or 2 we will have bidirectional brain computer interface.
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