The title is clickbait. This isn't "reading thoughts", it's reading motor movements, which is a different part of the brain than cognition. Most people will assume thoughts = cognition reading the title.
Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
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Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#182> (Don't think this nurse is hot! Don't think this nurse is hot! Holy shit she's hot.) > (You can do this) > (OMG, is it on already?) > (You can do this) > (What a nice bottom) > (Don't think bottom you idiot) > (She's entering the room, think something else, now, fast, bunny bunny) > (Bunny) > (Bunny) > (Bunny, you got this)
certainly needs some kind of 'Confirm?' handling, however that would work..
Imagine being in a meeting with your bosses and the "confirm" has a bug.
> "Will this idiot please shut up and end the meeting"
Everyone looks at you
> "Shit"
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m pretty skeptical of people that make this claim. It’s just surprising to me that a base level feature would work so differently. I’d expect some variation in models (like that old Feynman video about counting), but if you can speak and use language it’s hard for me to accept literally no internal voice is going on. I’ve always kinda suspected people making this claim are lacking introspection to such an extreme e…
Is it that much different from aphantasia? My sister cannot "see" anything in her mind at all, whereas for me mental images are so strong that I sometimes stop seeing the world in front of my eyes in favor of the one in my head. That's a pretty radical difference in a "base level" feature.
I have also wondered if the two are related. I have aphantasia, and also the majority of inner monologue I experience is when sounding out words during reading. It's pretty much quiet all the time in my head (which I guess is not everyone's experience?) and much of the thinking seemingly happens at the conceptual level.
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Interestingly there are people like myself who don't have an inner monologue (some people supposedly even have a constant dialogue with themselves) at all. The only time I experience something like an inner voice is when reading. My normal thoughts are more abstract I guess, I'm just sort of aware of what I want to do, how I feel etc. It's hard to describe.
I’m so deeply fascinated by that because it’s not how I experience consciousness. Very cool. I think I’m far in the opposite direction: I have a voice that sounds like me, but I don’t control and it asks me questions and gives opinions. It’s like having a copilot.
That sounds like you're practiced in metacognition; "Why am I thinking this?" etc.
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#185Interesting that the user has to think of specific letters to spell out a word. I guess the 26 distinct English letters are much easier to parse and separate than the untold thousands of words, especially when those words could be used in different contexts. I bet the next step wouldn't be to even parse words to make a sentence. It seems to me the next low hanging fruit would be to enable this machine to parse common…
Note that this doesn’t work by detecting his “imagined” letters. It’s detecting him trying to move his paralyzed hand through the motion of drawing the letters on paper.
By measuring the motor cortex activity it seems to be looking at something closer to an “output” of the brain rather than an internal representation.
So detecting imagined letters or words or ideas seems like a different problem than this achievement.
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m pretty skeptical of people that make this claim. It’s just surprising to me that a base level feature would work so differently. I’d expect some variation in models (like that old Feynman video about counting), but if you can speak and use language it’s hard for me to accept literally no internal voice is going on. I’ve always kinda suspected people making this claim are lacking introspection to such an extreme e…
I have an inner monologue when reading (or otherwise interacting with language), but mostly not when actually doing stuff. There must be some stuff you do where you don't have an inner monologue? I think it's a matter of degrees, like when programming my inner monologue consists mostly of variable names, but not like a procedural "I'll do this, then this, then it will do this". If you're having a hard time grasping t…
Man, this is a really weird thread. I don’t vocalize my thoughts internally either unless I need to formalize and remember them. My guess is that the people who can’t imagine not having an inner monologue just don’t take control of that process, since I can’t imagine they’re unable to think at all without mentally vocalizing things.
And now it sounds like a lot of meditation is training to be able to think the way you or I do, haha.
Is there any useful, productive research out there about this stuff? The only time I’ve come across any convincing or scientifically rigorous psychology was when Feynman did some for fun in his spare time and wrote about it
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#187This opens the door to bad-thought-monitoring. Of course it will become required equipment for all citizens. Mark my words
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#189> (Don't think this nurse is hot! Don't think this nurse is hot! Holy shit she's hot.) > (You can do this) > (OMG, is it on already?) > (You can do this) > (What a nice bottom) > (Don't think bottom you idiot) > (She's entering the room, think something else, now, fast, bunny bunny) > (Bunny) > (Bunny) > (Bunny, you got this)
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Feels almost like the setup for a horror story. It turns out everyone's inner monologue is saying absolutely terrifying things, but then we just immediately forget. Schizophrenia turns out to just be the ability to remember and notice the things we're all saying. And with that thought, I wonder if this sort of technology might be really useful for people with intrusive thoughts or schizophrenia, etc. Being able to ob…
I've had several occasions where some absolutely insane thought occurs to me during a wedding or a funeral. Makes me feel like a psychopath lol.
My entire life whenever I’m having a face to face with someone, anyone at all, I get this urge to kiss them. No freaking clue why. Don’t worry, I manage it effortlessly.
Same with my urge to break the tension and jump onto train tracks.
Same with just intensely inappropriate thoughts during formal events. Like wanting to stand up and scream the F word or something.