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One of the coolest advances in science!
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BBC NEWS | Health | Paralysed man's mind is 'read'
They hook up some electrodes in the brain that read the electrical impulses it makes when someone tries to form a sound (though, you don't have to speak it.) Then a computer analyzes the electrical signals and can correctly interpret the sound the person is trying to make 80% of the time.
Absolutely incredible! I bet they could have it pat down to 100% within a few years.
On the flip side, computers that can read your brain. Hmm.
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Cool.
Reckon it'll work on the teleworkers at the bank card services centre?
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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On the other hand, I wonder how close they are to processing images and sound? I always wondered what my dreams would look like in QuickTime. 
WEIRD.
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Yeah, I saw this too.
n the next few weeks, a computer will start the task of translating his thoughts into sounds.
I kind of wish they had waited to publish this until they started doing that. But very cool.
Makes me remember the TechTV report on the blind guy who had some kind seeing sensor implanted in his brain that kinda worked. Wonder what ever happened to him.
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I wonder if it'll work in reverse? Could they hook this up to someone who's in a coma and talk to them?
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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So, they read the brain's impulses that would do the motor function, but not the thought of what it was he wanted to say? That's a BIG difference.
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Could this help to understand women ?
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it'd be even more interesting to hook it up to an animal, and see what sounds they were thinking of.
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Originally Posted by starman 
So, they read the brain's impulses that would do the motor function, but not the thought of what it was he wanted to say? That's a BIG difference.
Maybe, but a significant part of people's thoughts are phonological in nature - they're "sounded out" mentally. That's why people who are thinking often end up talking to themselves without meaning to. Most thinking = verbalizing subvocally.
The problem would occur if they made a plane and programmed it to be flown by a Russian-speaking pilot, which would make it difficult for the rugged American pilot with the troubled past to steal it.
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Originally Posted by BRussell
The problem would occur if they made a plane and programmed it to be flown by a Russian-speaking pilot, which would make it difficult for the rugged American pilot with the troubled past to steal it.
Especially if he's having stomach problems.
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Yeah AMC seems to be in love with this month.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Could this help to understand women ?
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Never will happen......never!
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
I wonder if it'll work in reverse? Could they hook this up to someone who's in a coma and talk to them?
Well, that's theoretically possible too, but it wouldn't be the same thing in reverse. That would be like speaking into the earpiece of a telephone.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
I wonder if it'll work in reverse? Could they hook this up to someone who's in a coma and talk to them?
Thats a good idea, they really need to add a reverse button.
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awesome, now I can finally start making a backup of my mind
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Unfortunately the wireless backup feature was removed at the last minute.
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