Scientists extract images directly from brain

[frequentfaller 0]

Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person ’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. Further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.
cool or scary?

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/

Born ok 1st time.

[TheAnvil 0]

Interesting. Makes you wonder what's coming down the pike if this is indeed for real.

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[billvon 2,990]

That's been doable for a while, actually. There have been several tests where they can both recognize visual activity and inject images into the brains of blind people.

Unfortunately, the stuff that your eye sends down your optic nerve is nothing like video. It's a hodgepodge of edge detects, motion detects, shape detects and color/intensity delta information. So instead of an image on a monitor you get information like "sharp edge here" "medium speed motion seen here" "round thing over there."

Conversely, when simple video is sent into the brain (as in the case of blind people with implants) it takes them some time to learn to process the new signals as vision.

[Coreece 190]

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cool...soon we'll be able to backup our whole brain to a Synthetic Cellular Memory Computer System and than trade external hard drives with your buddies so they could than download your brain information to their Brain via the SCMCS and see how you view the world....I got dibs on Bush's Brain....the download shouldn't take too long.

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[IanHarrop 41]

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I got dibs on Bush's Brain.

Current flash drives should have sufficient capacity for Bush's brain

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[frequentfaller 0]

cool... then my weird sex dreams involving goats, midgets and my neighbors mom will remain private. instead of youtube video.

Born ok 1st time.

[Coreece 190]

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Current flash drives should have sufficient capacity for Bush's brain

Nice...I was editing my post to add...."the download shouldn't take too long"...while you were posting this reply.

I can see we're on the same wave length.

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[labrys 0]

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Current flash drives should have sufficient capacity for Bush's brain

You're giving him too much credit.

Bush = 5 1/2 inch floppy.

This is cool stuff:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10080852-76.html

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[kallend 2,026]

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That's been doable for a while, actually. There have been several tests where they can both recognize visual activity and inject images into the brains of blind people.

Unfortunately, the stuff that your eye sends down your optic nerve is nothing like video. It's a hodgepodge of edge detects, motion detects, shape detects and color/intensity delta information. So instead of an image on a monitor you get information like "sharp edge here" "medium speed motion seen here" "round thing over there."

Conversely, when simple video is sent into the brain (as in the case of blind people with implants) it takes them some time to learn to process the new signals as vision.

I understand that the further the information goes into the visual cortex, the more like a video it becomes. The retina and outer levels are like pre-processors.

Or so my colleagues who work on visual implants tell me.

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

So what are the really scary guys in that annex to the pentagon doing with this?

[alw 0]

Consider this. The brain is not like a digital computer, at least not the way we think of them. Yet, the inputs to the brain could be simulated by a computer in some form or another.

Downloading the essence of a "being" into some form of fabricated brain and feeding it inputs from some form of simulator (think Matrix) presents a form of immortality, the ability to travel through time and space, the ability to create pseudo universes, and the ability to become a super-being at least in perception space.

If each human brain on earth were "converted" in this way, there would be in the neighborhood of 4 billion universes, each capable of creating multiple universes.

Virtual worlds of today might represent the primordial civilizations to a future in which we each get to play gods.

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[n23x 0]

Thanks Neo. How much do clothes cost in the Matrix?

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