• Grab your tinfoil hats: New brain scanning technique can visualize your imagination
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[img]http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/brains-scan-640x353.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/b_brain.jpg[/img] [QUOTE]This week a team of Dutch researchers announced that a combination of high-resolution MRI, computational modeling, and a little bit of deck-stacking prescience has allowed them to draw a subject’s experiences right out of the brain. The study builds on years of research into how visual and cognitive information is represented in the brain, and its biggest step forward is actually more conceptual than technological. Functional MRI images are used mostly for large-scale analysis — which brain regions are eating oxygen to do work during a particular task — but this study was more interested in small-scale activity. Their fMRI data was reported in 2x2x2 millimeter units known as voxels. The researchers showed subjects a particular letter, and their recordings of the resulting brain activity came in the form of these 3D pixels. Normally, this raw data would simply be directly rendered out as a picture of the brain — the muddy, multi-colored pictures most of us associate with MRI scans.[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164454-new-brain-scanning-technique-can-visualize-your-imagination]source[/url] something something something NSA something something.
At least I'm safe inside my mind...
[QUOTE=matt000024;41921454]At least I'm safe inside my mind...[/QUOTE] At least I'm safe inside my mind. Does this mean that eventually we'll be able to take a picture of our brain and find out exactly what we're craving?
this technology has been in use for years [video=youtube;SOIQLsy3oso]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOIQLsy3oso[/video]
Does it do pictures or just words
[QUOTE=Complifused;41921476]Does it do pictures or just words[/QUOTE] What are words but pictures you read?
This is another step forward on the way to complete neural integration of technology. Whether or not it will be good for society remains to be seen. Just imagine it, the neural implant you got last month is working perfectly. There are new digital objects all around your house as you get used to the DOI(Digital Optical Interface) You have screens that you can pick up and manipulate and move them around as if they are real. It took awhile to get used to them being weightless, but it's natural enough to interact with them. You downloaded a really cute puppy that's been driving you up a wall, might have to delete that one. The screens have a feature that let you lock them in place at the touch of a button so you can position it in front of your face. With another press it floats in mid air. The new update for Grav(the object gravity program) comes out tomorrow and you are really excited to test the limits of your digital powers.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;41921464]At least I'm safe inside my mind. Does this mean that eventually we'll be able to take a picture of our brain and find out exactly what we're craving?[/QUOTE] There was a video of scientists using MRIs to show that they can read memories of youtube videos they showed people. I can't find it right now, though
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[QUOTE=Dacheet;41921538]There was a video of scientists using MRIs to show that they can read memories of youtube videos they showed people. I can't find it right now, though[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN0neqev8_8[/media]
[QUOTE=frozensoda;41921527]This is another step forward on the way to complete neural integration of technology. Whether or not it will be good for society remains to be seen.[/QUOTE] Great for the disabled, average joe, visual thinkers, etc. Terrible for artists. "I can draw with my mind! Why would I need to learn how to use a pencil!?"
[QUOTE=Dacheet;41921436][img]http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/brains-scan-640x353.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] S N ? ? R B second set kinda looks like brains spelled backwards all the same this is pretty neat
[QUOTE=Dacheet;41921542]video[/QUOTE] Reminds me of that dream recording thing from that Final Fantasy movie.
Don't think about sex.. Don't think about sex.. Don't think about sex.. Fuck.
[QUOTE=Dacheet;41921542][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN0neqev8_8[/media][/QUOTE] It's weird how all the faces look the same in the reconstruction
So... hypothetically, if they scanned... lets say, Just for example ME. and hypothetically they found lots of perfectly planned murders and arsonist type thoughts do you think they could use that in court or something. You know.. Hypothetically of course.
I wonder if I could make porn with this one day
is this just visual input though, or actually using your brain to recreate what you saw?
Finally, we get closer every day to a future where I can simply imagine my porno fantasies and have them appear on a screen. Oh man.
[QUOTE=ColdWave;41921782]Finally, we get closer every day to a future where I can simply imagine my porno fantasies and have them appear on a screen. Oh man.[/QUOTE] Brings a whole new meaning to "circlejerk"
I want this so I can see what the fuck I dreamed about the night before
What happens when they make people look at the MRI scan of them reading a letter? What happens if they continue this process?
[QUOTE=ColdWave;41921782]Finally, we get closer every day to a future where I can simply imagine my porno fantasies and have them appear on a screen. Oh man.[/QUOTE] I'm just going to be fucking creeped out by the time it gets fully created and people start to having sex fantasies with TV shows characters and start to upload the video
Oh c'mon, now I won't be able to safely imagine naked versions of the people I meet!
What happens when you look at the MRI scan of your own brain? Ifinate mirror effect?
the possibilities for that toy is endless
Guys. Be wary about this article. It is very interesting indeed, and it is posted in Elsevier which is a fairly respected journal. I just wouldn't get my hopes up just yet.
Great, eventually people will be able to see what I imagine... shit... Looks like I'm going to have to find a way of changing how I imagine things.
[QUOTE=NightmareX91;41922269]Great, eventually people will be able to see what I imagine... shit... Looks like I'm going to have to find a way of changing how I imagine things.[/QUOTE] Just make them not want to. Sometimes I wonder if anyone is able to read minds and just imagine a very high pitched annoying sound. Me - 1, Mindreaders - 0!
How long until thought crime is a real thing :v:
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