Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
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Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
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Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#2I can see this being amazingly handy in the (far) future in terms of interface navigation and search. Just picture the icon of the program you want to launch, or the stock photo you are trying to find and boom.
Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#3I can see this being amazingly handy in the (far) future in terms of interface navigation and search. Just picture the icon of the program you want to launch, or the stock photo you are trying to find and boom.
That's already available, to some degree:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotiv_Systems
(There are others as well, but I understand this is one of the best commercial products as of now).
Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#4I think if I could see any invention in my lifetime, I'd want to see that knowledge-uploader thing from 'The Matrix'. Imagine how much you could learn! Especially before you were too old to use it...
Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#5This should be like front page news. This is something many would have not thought possible. It also poses many problems non-materialists that do not subscribe to a weird hand-wavy coincidentalism.
Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#6Seems like it's a neural network trying to decipher the inner workings of another neural network. How amazingly cool is that ?
Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#7Not to impugn the author's trustworthiness, but this is so astounding to me that I find it somewhat incredible. Does anyone have an English-language news source for this?
The "extracted" pictures are an order of magnitude clearer than I would have thought possible.
Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#8On one hand, this is great. It will lead to new technology which will inevitably lead to better video games.
On the other hand, this provides the opportunity for total loss of privacy. Forget freedom of speech, people might start to attack the freedom to think certain thoughts. In other news, China and Iran are thrilled at this new science.
Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#9The source for this article is a 404 page. (Translated via Google)
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chu...
Re: Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008)
#10On one hand, this is great. It will lead to new technology which will inevitably lead to better video games. On the other hand, this provides the opportunity for total loss of privacy. Forget freedom of speech, people might start to attack the freedom to think certain thoughts. In other news, China and Iran are thrilled at this new science.
Then we'll have to encrypt our thoughts.