A long way from remote reading of your brain, but give it time. Unless they start replacing the inner’ds of metal detectors at store entrances and airport body scanners with MRIs…
Now researchers in the Netherlands have taken another step towards that future by using brain scans to successfully identify what a person is perceiving, specifically the letters that they are seeing.
Using a combination of shape recognition and training an algorithm to understand the changes in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals caused by viewing a letter, a team from Radboud University Nijmegen was able to decode sensory information inside the brains of the study participants.
After 70,000,000 functional MRI generated voxels, we think we know what that zombie is thinking.
It has occured to me that some readers may not get the ‘zombie’ reference. No matter, that is what a collective body of work is for —
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iICP8DcYHf4&feature=player_detailpage#t=42
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E6K9zK9ZWSg
And, no. That is not Gerald Celente in the first clip, probably.
“We’re not telling people what to think. We’re just trying to show them how.”
Serenity
A cleaner link with more pictures showing the evolution of the algorithm’s progress —
http://dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2399790/Could-soon-reading-peoples-MINDS-Software-uses-brain-scans-identify-exactly-people-looking-at.html
Image brains in comic sans infrared after 5:00 pm.
I have a titanium plate in my head from aneurysm surgery, bring it on.
The powerful eddie currents from the changing magnetic field would rip it off your skull whilst boiling the innards at the same time — A challenge to ‘bring that on’ would be unwise.
It does not matter that the material is paramagnetic — The reactive current is generated by the changing field {it’s how those quarters always seem to stick together in the bulldozer quarter-drop gambling machines}.
Magnetic punching and forming is done on aluminum by dumping a capacitor through a solenoid and the induced current is so strong that it not only melts the material at that point but kicks it away. It’s also how dynamic braking works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_damping
EMP quarter shrinker
http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=71
I am good for 4 Teslas.
Gak! I guess that magnitude won’t really pull the iron out of your blood then.
Makes sense, so long as the field changes very slowly.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6BBx8BwLhqg&feature=player_embedded#t=71
I can only drive one car at a time. 🙂
Go ahead try to read my brain, I dare you. I’ve been trying for for 50 years, I can barely figure it out…
This is an outrage
I knew you’d say that! 😀
Is it time for the foil hats yet?
Anybody see the next lie detector/voice stress analyzer in this research?
The Scientologists will probably have one working in a week or two from now.
That runs on a screaming tomato battery —
https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/hubbards-screaming-tomato-engram-debunked.57406/
Never mind the NSA, this will become truly valuable when it can be used to cheaply predict in real time to what sort of advertising message a group of target consumers will be most responsive.
And by target consumers, of course I mean campaign donors and voters.
WTF, now the NSA is caught spying on love interests too.
Yea, they did not tell you because you’d tell the teacher. — sux to be left outside the trendy group; Pretend you like turtles.
So the guys wearing aluminum foil on their head aren’t crazy after all? 🙂