Scientists can construct images from your brain.

[Mal12345]

http://vodpod.com/watch/15451666-scientists-can-now-construct-video-images-from-your-mind

 

[Idealatious]

The video's gone. There's this article, though: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/

So, what do I have to study in college to be able to research this...

 

[Noon]

The other YT vid:

Whee.

However, researchers point out that the technology is decades from allowing users to read others’ thoughts and intentions, as portrayed in such sci-fi classics as “Brainstorm,” in which scientists recorded a person’s sensations so that others could experience them.

I wonder if I'll even be alive when this happens.

 

[ThatGirl]

Holy shit that is crazy to think about. And was it just me, or were there words in the brain video at the time of the elephants and beyond?

I could actually produce art, and communicate so much more effectively.

 

[Lateralus]

Wow!

 

[Mal12345]

Holy shit that is crazy to think about. And was it just me, or were there words in the brain video at the time of the elephants and beyond?

I could actually produce art, and communicate so much more effectively.

The words look like a reflection on the screen being videotaped. Some of them are in French.

In the upper left hand of the video it looks like the Fox news logo. Could this be a subliminal advertising gimmick?

 

[Blank]

Yvan eht nioj!

 

[ThatGirl]

Lol!

 

[Pinker85]

I think it'd be funny to hook my brain up to one of these machines. I can imagine the researchers nudging each other asking "hey is she dead because we've been stuck on that penis picture for the last hour?" hahaha

 

[Lark]

Why do letters and words appear when the picture is just a picture?

 

[Qlip]

I'm curious how this actually works. If it's just stuff reconstructed from the area of the brain that processes visual input, it has a lot less implications than something that could somehow reconstruct what you're mentally picturing. Which is something that I doubt is possible to any but a very crude degree, especially since when I think I don't 'picture' anything most of the time.

 

[Mal12345]

I'm curious how this actually works. If it's just stuff reconstructed from the area of the brain that processes visual input, it has a lot less implications than something that could somehow reconstruct what you're mentally picturing. Which is something that I doubt is possible to any but a very crude degree, especially since when I think I don't 'picture' anything most of the time.

A device in the brain measures neural blood flow. That's all the info they will let me divulge.

 

[Mal12345]

I think it'd be funny to hook my brain up to one of these machines. I can imagine the researchers nudging each other asking "hey is she dead because we've been stuck on that penis picture for the last hour?" hahaha

(Where's that damn like button? Oh yes, we don't have one here.)

 

[violet_crown]

Heard a blurb about this on NPR the other day. Cool stuff.

 

[mrcockburn]

Great. Now watch the government/legal system use this in lieu of or in addition to lie detectors in order to know what citizens are thinking. One step for mankind, one step for Big Brother.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Every police sketch artist just shit themselves.

 

[Jack427]

And I called those guys with tinfoil hats crazy.

 

[Lark]

If science is so big then where is my millenium falcon? Where? See, thought so.

 

[Mal12345]

If science is so big then where is my millenium falcon? Where? See, thought so.

I don't know, but science provided a computer for you to type that into.

 

[Lark]

I don't know, but science provided a computer for you to type that into.

Dont make excuses for science's empty promises.