I think YouTube will get better in about five or ten years, being inundated with psycho thrillers produced straight from the dreaming brain.
There is a software that looks at an image of the brain activity taken in a f-MRI scanner and recreates a black and white image from that. This software has been developed by Yukiyasu Kamitani at ATR Computational Neuroscience Lab in Kyoto, Japan.
The implication is that you don’t have to know who is thinking what- you could just plug into his brain and see what picture is running on in his head.
They are hoping to improve the technology so much that they can make a videotape of a dream.
John-Dylan Haynes of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. has some concerns about this:
He imagines a scenario where marketing people will sit out in public spaces like railway stations and shopping malls and read our thoughts, and fine tune their advertisements.
More about this in New Scientist
I used to think there is something unique about the human brain, now it looks like it is no better than a DVD player or something, and is totally mechanical, nothing spiritual about it.
Technology is helping people to keep expanding the boundary of possible. This looks like a good technology, and surely no one can telecast from your mind without your knowledge and in a way approval. So no concerns about marketing men. This technology could be handy in crime trials.
ReplyDeleteYup wanted to highlight the same point. I think Steven Speil's Minority report is based on this. Could also help in gambling...
ReplyDeleteWell, I am wrong. It seems your mind can be read even without your knowledge. Scary stuff.
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