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#1 Dec 18 2008 at 7:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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I love the idea of even scientifically enhanced telepathy.

What are you looking at? Scientists find out


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TOKYO - Japanese researchers have reproduced images of things people were looking at by analyzing brain scans, opening the way for people to communicate directly from their mind.


I'd quote the whole article, but the picture is neat and I don't have premium.

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#2 Dec 18 2008 at 7:32 AM Rating: Good
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#3 Dec 18 2008 at 7:46 AM Rating: Decent
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AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
We're only steps away from being able to download our brains onto electrical storage devices.
Like MP3 Players?
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#4 Dec 18 2008 at 7:49 AM Rating: Excellent
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Soon men will be only briefly relieved that women have stopped asking them, "What are you thinking?" Shortly thereafter, the lesbian population will experience a boom.

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#5 Dec 18 2008 at 7:50 AM Rating: Good
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Elinda wrote:
AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
We're only steps away from being able to download our brains onto electrical storage devices.
Like MP3 Players?
i-Brain. I predict Apple will take the market on brain storage devices.
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#6 Dec 18 2008 at 7:51 AM Rating: Decent
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Soon men will be only briefly relieved that women have stopped asking them, "What are you thinking?" Shortly thereafter, the lesbian population will experience a boom.

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We'd be half-way there if they'd just make frozen sperm available over-the-counter.
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#7 Dec 18 2008 at 7:54 AM Rating: Excellent
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I predict that this will lead to the evolution of a clothes-optional society.

Here's the train of thought:

1. Someone markets a product that can record all the filthy things that men imagine.
2. Someone markets a device that can be inserted into glasses or an eyeball that can project false images on the brain.
3. Someone combines the two, and makes a device that can project a man's imagined image of a naked woman onto the woman in real life.
4. People figure "what the hell. They can already see me anyway."
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#8 Dec 18 2008 at 8:04 AM Rating: Good
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AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
I predict that this will lead to the evolution of a clothes-optional society.

Here's the train of thought:

1. Someone markets a product that can record all the filthy things that men imagine.
2. Someone markets a device that can be inserted into glasses or an eyeball that can project false images on the brain.
3. Someone combines the two, and makes a device that can project a man's imagined image of a naked woman onto the woman in real life.
4. People figure "what the hell. They can already see me anyway."


This really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, Ash. Smiley: frown
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This really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, Ash. Smiley: frown
I'm distracted.
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#10 Dec 18 2008 at 8:20 AM Rating: Good
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I find the precision of the images interesting.
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The two N's are nearly identical, and all the letters display a similar pattern of light and dark patches. Visual heuristics are apparently fairly consistent.
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My wife had an interesting perspective:

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I wonder how they filter out all the noise though, you could be looking at the word, hearing someone talk and be thinking about that, smell something that reminds you of a memory from childhood, and be wondering what to have for dinner...I don't want people to be interpreting all of THAT stuff.
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#12 Dec 18 2008 at 8:47 AM Rating: Good
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My wife had an interesting perspective:

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I wonder how they filter out all the noise though, you could be looking at the word, hearing someone talk and be thinking about that, smell something that reminds you of a memory from childhood, and be wondering what to have for dinner...I don't want people to be interpreting all of THAT stuff.
Its because different portions of the brain handle different batches of sensory input. The people that produced these images only took readings from image portions of the brain.
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Elinda wrote:
Nexa wrote:
Soon men will be only briefly relieved that women have stopped asking them, "What are you thinking?" Shortly thereafter, the lesbian population will experience a boom.

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We'd be half-way there if they'd just make frozen sperm available over-the-counter.


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#14 Dec 18 2008 at 8:59 AM Rating: Decent
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You could make telepathy right now.

Well, OK, not real telepathy, but you could talk to people without making noise.

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Yes, colossal steps.
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#15 Dec 18 2008 at 9:35 AM Rating: Decent
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You can also reproduce what a person was seeing by putting their eyeballs into a projector. I think they have to be dead for that to work, though...
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#16 Dec 18 2008 at 9:37 AM Rating: Good
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You can also reproduce what a person was seeing by putting their eyeballs into a projector. I think they have to be dead for that to work, though...
I'm pretty sure that's fiction.
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#17 Dec 18 2008 at 10:44 AM Rating: Decent
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AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
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You can also reproduce what a person was seeing by putting their eyeballs into a projector. I think they have to be dead for that to work, though...
I'm pretty sure that's fiction.

What?? What is this you're telling me?? it's got to be real! So I'm to assume that people can't have actual hard drives implanted in their brains as well?

Hell, next thing you'll be telling me that we aren't in fact living in a robot-controlled virtual reality.
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#18 Dec 18 2008 at 3:22 PM Rating: Decent
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Allegory wrote:
I find the precision of the images interesting.

The two N's are nearly identical, and all the letters display a similar pattern of light and dark patches. Visual heuristics are apparently fairly consistent.


That would explain why every time you look at the same object you see the same object.

Though it's nothing spectacular. A Television will display the same image given the same input, even if that input is an output from a digital video recorder.

And we all know that the brain is much more complex than your standard television.
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#19 Dec 18 2008 at 9:17 PM Rating: Decent
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TirithRR wrote:
Allegory wrote:
I find the precision of the images interesting.

The two N's are nearly identical, and all the letters display a similar pattern of light and dark patches. Visual heuristics are apparently fairly consistent.


That would explain why every time you look at the same object you see the same object.

Though it's nothing spectacular. A Television will display the same image given the same input, even if that input is an output from a digital video recorder.

And we all know that the brain is much more complex than your standard television.

Well...some are. I have my doubts about others.
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#20 Dec 18 2008 at 9:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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****, we've had that for years here. Thats what that little static electricity jolt is every time you click one of the rate buttons. This also explains why we norate certain people really quickly... Some of the FFXIers and their moogle tentacle ****...
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#21 Dec 19 2008 at 5:45 AM Rating: Decent
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Nexa wrote:
I love the idea of even scientifically enhanced telepathy.

What are you looking at? Scientists find out


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TOKYO - Japanese researchers have reproduced images of things people were looking at by analyzing brain scans, opening the way for people to communicate directly from their mind.


I'd quote the whole article, but the picture is neat and I don't have premium.

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Being able to watch someone's dream sounds hilariously awesome.
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