Dreams may no longer be secret with Japan computer screen
December 11, 2008
Japanese student demonstrates walking in a virtual world, on a flat screen monitor, with the character controled by his brain waves, in Yokohama, in 2007. A Japanese research team has advanced even further by creating a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
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One would assume there would be a huge leap from crude images to full-color, high-def dream movies. I don't think we have to worry about our inner-most secrets being revealed any time soon.
I remember 20 years ago, when virtual-reality was supposed to be right around the corner. It's just now approaching what the experts were touting back then.
not only that, however. The most complex part of VR is not capturing or sending signals, it's finding out what the signals mean and being able to mimic them. So VR is still far off, unless someone starts linking specific pathways in the brain to specific senses (an image of a bird, most likely, should have a completely different signal form that of a plane). It's these little nuance that really make all the difference. And with current research into the field, I'd be surprised if we have 8-bit games in our heads in a decade.
would they not then have the ability to "encode"
just one more way to program more idiots!~
Also, it would be interesting to see how that would help the doctors to interpret the mind of a autistic person.
Lots of questions still, but this sounds very exciting.
Wow. Can you say "Thought Police" ?
http://berkeley.e...999.html
I remember the Japanese also invented a device where the person who wore it had no control over his body, and they could remote control the person.
However, if they succeed in tracking the higher functioning concepts of WHAT (objects) we're seeing then we will be able to tell what someone is dreaming about. Unless the visuals of a dream are constructed in exactly the same way visual information is read from sight, then "seeing" a dream would be as difficult as telling somebody a word and "seeing" what it is they picture in they're mind.
Actually seeing an approximation of what they see could be very difficult as it'd probably involve many parts of the brain, especially the parts involving visual and spatial reasoning.
In a large sense, you are right, but what they are trying to do is find the higher functioning concepts of what the objects they are seeing are. The retina is merely to control what they are decoding (i.e. they know that the signal means "n" or "neuron" or whatever, versus blindly guessing at what it may mean.
"US Army Invests in 'Thought Helmet' Technology for Voiceless Communication"
http://www.physor...439.html
it might not be as strange as it seems
traveling into a world you call your own
all by yourself yet never alone
killed ten times and you never die
when your in dreamland you wonder why
a collection of thoughts thru the night
are mass confusion in morning light
if you ever wake up without your head
roll back over because you are dead
http://www.youtub...IHbFQAzU&feature=channel_page
goldieshouse.piczo.com
Mind reading science = Mechanical zombies.
recomended viewing given the subject!