Board 8 > Scientists Reconstruct Brains' Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment

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http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

Not really something I think we should pursue to be honest.

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idk, depends what kind of dreams you have...

...or if you have information the government want

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i totally dig this sort of stuff. i can save my dreams on a hard drive? hell yeah, sign me up. has some really, really big medical applications too considering it'd be a huge help to those with alzhimers.

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This is simultaneously really promising and really scary.

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thats epic

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Do not want tbh.

And it's all because of Government. If the governments wouldn't inevitable just keep records on everyone who uses this, it'd be cool to see this take off.

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This is what I've been waiting for. I'm all for it.

What the hell, this is f***ing crazy. Right now I'm thinking less about the ethical implications of this and more just being baffled over how something like this is even possible. Technology is amazing.

Pretty nice. Hope this is going to be the start of something big.

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Pretty much incredible.

The real question is whether this can be extended to view memories.

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...Wow, I was JUST thinking and talking about the possibility of this like yesterday

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The implications of something like this leave me speechless.

Technology is as amazing as it is horrifying.

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Awesome. Though yeah, stuff like this does make one think about government relay chips and the like.

I never thought I'd see the day we even got this close to this type of thing though.

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Neat.

Well people got paranoid just like that.

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I wonder what uses this could have really. Like we get to look at dreams, but how much understanding does that give us?

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Chrono1219 posted...
I wonder what uses this could have really. Like we get to look at dreams, but how much understanding does that give us?

This brings us one step closer to being able to view the memories of a person.

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Viewing memories wouldn't really be all that useful except as entertainment for the person doing the viewing, considering that they're malleable as hell.

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Let's hope that machine has watched enough videos of boobies. Because I would totally just make a video of myself boning celebrities.

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Leebo86 posted...
Viewing memories wouldn't really be all that useful except as entertainment for the person doing the viewing, considering that they're malleable as hell.

Really?

For one, the government would start making arguments to using that ability in court cases. It sort of reminds me of Minority Report, except instead of knowing the future, they know everything you've done in the past.

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The Real Truth posted...
Leebo86 posted...
Viewing memories wouldn't really be all that useful except as entertainment for the person doing the viewing, considering that they're malleable as hell.

Really?

For one, the government would start making arguments to using that ability in court cases. It sort of reminds me of Minority Report, except instead of knowing the future, they know everything you've done in the past.

That would be terrifying. Eye witnesses are terrible as is, it would be a horrible, horrible idea to treat a "taped" memory as if it was a video of actual events.

And I doubt it would get used in court. There would be a mountain of expert witnesses to testify to the fallibility of memory. This method wouldn't improve memory, but the visual nature would make people think their memory was more accurate than it really was. It would compound the problem.

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Much as I hate to be Ulti for a topic, I do suspect that if the technology existed and it was practical, the government would log everyones' thoughts and claim you shouldn't mind if you aren't a criminal.

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I agree that it would be terrible and that's why I'm hesitant to the findings described in the article. It's definitely incredibly cool, but governments like to ruin everything. If they can pull this off, I imagine at some point they will be able to detect a range of emotions (such as through blood flow, adrenal glands, etc) a person is going through/has been going through somehow link them to your memories. I know that looks absurd, but so does the article. We can only expect at some point (maybe not in our lifetimes, hopefully not), that someone is going to find a way to read your actual thoughts.

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I agree that many people would want to use this for important things. But memories of events are so flimsy.

The dream thing would be really cool at the very least.

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"Given a big enough database of video material and enough computing power, the system would be able to re-create any images in your brain."

Whether that could accurately recreate images in your brain is the question. Very interesting, impressive stuff, but not quite really taking images directly from someone's mind.

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I don't exactly know how but somehow this will be used to make porn better. I'm pumped.

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Porn constructed out of thousands of clips of other porn? I'd rather just look at an actual video of an actual chick in porn. =P

Call me a skeptical Scully.

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