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    Japanese produce tech that allows us to display the images in our minds

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/sciencejapanbrainoffbeat

    TOKYO (AFP) – 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.

    Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.

    While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people's minds.

    "It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity," the private institute said in a statement.

    "By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams."

    When people look at an object, the eye's retina recognises an image that is converted into electrical signals which go into the brain's visual cortex.

    The team, led by chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani, succeeded in catching the signals and then reconstructing what people see.

    In their experiment, the researchers showed people the six letters in the word "neuron" and then succeeded in reconstructing the letters on a computer screen by measuring their brain activity.

    The team said that it first figured out people's individual brain patterns by showing them some 400 different still images.





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    Re: Japanese produce tech that allows us to display the images in our minds

    OH MAN!! Why has no one commented on this? That is INSANELY awesome and terrifying!  :2huh:

    Still waiting on that holodeck, though. 
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    Re: Japanese produce tech that allows us to display the images in our minds

    the future in front of our eyes on the screen to read. amazing&nbsp;

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    Re: Japanese produce tech that allows us to display the images in our minds

    OMG. WOW.


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    Re: Japanese produce tech that allows us to display the images in our minds

    [quote author=shansen1984 link=topic=17710.msg1125511#msg1125511 date=1229986006]
    OMG it would be so awesome to have a video collection of my dreams!
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    I don't think I would want to replay mine.&nbsp; :2eyesbleed:

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    Re: Japanese produce tech that allows us to display the images in our minds



    This is totally NOT awesome.

    Is nothing sacred anymore? Not even the privacy of your own mind?

    I can see the benefits of it ... but I can see the potential for it to be exploited so much more.

    Damn you overzealous Japanese scientists and damn you George Orwell and your big ideas. Fairy tales indeed.


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    Re: Japanese produce tech that allows us to display the images in our minds

    [quote author=GothaBella link=topic=17710.msg1125517#msg1125517 date=1229986232]
    I don't think I would want to replay mine.&nbsp; :2eyesbleed:
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    I am positive I would not want people seeing what is in my head.&nbsp; I don't even like seeing what is there sometimes.&nbsp; :2huh:
    I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.

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    Re: Japanese produce tech that allows us to display the images in our minds

    [quote author=LostSouls link=topic=17710.msg1126604#msg1126604 date=1230042468]
    I am positive I would not want people seeing what is in my head.&nbsp; I don't even like seeing what is there sometimes.&nbsp; :2huh:
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    Agreed. This is scary, not cool at all. lol.
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