My dreams can be pretty crazy, I don't think i want people viewing them. Just last night, I kept dreaming about these spiders coming at me... o.o So not cool.
I may not want others reading my dreams, but there are MANY times where, try as I might, I can't remember a dream that I really want to. If I can wake up, and then just . . . rewind a bit, that would be awesome!
Hmm... seems like going from this to dreams is a pretty large leap. From what I understood this only is able to recognize shapes that it already understands the pattern for. So they basically teach it the pattern by showing shapes and such to a person before hand and letting it read the patterns that come up, then when those shapes are thought about and the same pattern is in the brain it can read that.
I don't see how you could translate that easily to being able to read dreams?
If I remember correctly, in Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within, she was recording her dreams. I often thought about that, because you quickly forget your dreams and so many times I had brilliant ideas in my dreams, guess your creative skills are better then, and wish I could record them so I could create them in real life (modelling, whatever)
This technology can also be applied to senses other than vision. In the future, it may also become possible to read feelings and complicated emotional states.
That's pretty cool but I think we're a long way away from them actually being able to read our thoughts. This system is based on prior knowledge of your brain activity when experiencing a given stimulus. In order for them to make accurate readings of your thoughts they would have to map all possible states of your brain activity to their associated images. This is of course impossible. And let's not forget that it's most probable that different people have different readings for the same stimulus so using some other data to read your thoughts is probably not doable either.
This of course could be used to better understand how the brain reacts to different images to deduce complex emotions and thus be used to create a more reliable lie detector than the current use of polygraphs.
imagine they catch a guy and for what ever reason they want to interrogate him, no need to ask him questions just make him go to sleep and read his brain..
I wouldn't want others to see my dreams, but I'd sure as hell like to see my own. I rarely remember anything and when I do it's usually a nightmare. Being able to see the shit my mind is doing while I sleep would be quite interesting.
I wouldnt want to see my dreams again, seen them once and that was enough it would be cool to see in an experiment kinda way but not something I would want to do every day or even once a month.
I agree with hawken on this one, reality ftw
That said, imagine if this could pick up the sounds you are imagining! music composers would be in heaven hahaa, or if you could see your 3D designs before they exist...that would be cool, but seeing your dreams seems pointless, theres no control, its too random in my opinion
Also dreams most likely seem like brilliant insights because your 'this-is-a-brilliant-insight' chemicals are flowing, even if you're dreaming of something mind-numbingly boring. Then you wake up and can't figure out what was so great about your dream, you just know it somehow was. I bet watching ones dreams would be a little disappointing when taken in with the full logical scrutiny of being awake.
well who cares about the dream thing, in the future this may be the new way in which digital artists work! Strap on some headgear, boom, insta-art. 1 step closer to the "make art" button! Maybe we wont even need keyboards, mice and tablets anymore either. Just sit there and control the OS with your mind alone.
haha, this is simply the interception of relayed information to the brain, hardly an imagination projecting art. In fact i'd imagnie if we ever see the day when we can project what our imagination is trying to come up with, it's going to be more words than picture, and what pictures are there are going to look like total ass.
On the flip side i'd imagine there'll be a huge fad with pscholdelic light shows if we can record what goes on when we apply firm pressure to our eyes with our hands.
Seriuosly though, in the short term, I think this will be relevant for wiring data into the brain for the blind or for those with replacement limbs. Additionally if they can map neural connections with this high a degree of accuracy (and that will be rapidly improving), it will facilitate & revolutionize human machine interaction in some pretty astounding ways.
Interesting, imagine communicating without actually speaking. Though it's quite worrying that if most people spoke their minds the world would probably be at war, hah.
seeing as how it reads brain activity and not truth, any and all brain scans for evidential purposes would be unreliable as the machine would not differentiate between memory and fantasy as those activities utilize the same regions of the brain. (yes they've mapped that already)
interesting tech though, calibrating a sensor to brain/blood flow. Wonder how varied the activity patterns were per person, and if you could learn to decalibrate yourself from the initial reference patterns.
Lamont: My mom used to play this computer game called "the journey to Wild Devine" where you had to control stuff using exercises such as breathing, imagining certain things etc. It was all measured with some devices around your fingertips measuring the resistance of the skin or something similar. (resistance has something to do with blood concentration, speed of the blood, therefore heart rate etc.). It was pretty funny but I don't have a clue weather it actually worked because I only 'played' it 2 times or so.
Isn't this an interesting case of the "double-posty necro dance"
Dejawolf made this thread a year ago, and just yesterday reposted the same link in a new thread. And Lamont, instead of posting in the new thread, posts in the old thread from a year ago.
It's some kind of bizarro world. I'm scared. Somebody hold me.
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My dreams can be pretty crazy, I don't think i want people viewing them. Just last night, I kept dreaming about these spiders coming at me... o.o So not cool.
I don't see how you could translate that easily to being able to read dreams?
Still pretty dang cool though.
Oh sh!t brainstorm is becoming reality!
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This of course could be used to better understand how the brain reacts to different images to deduce complex emotions and thus be used to create a more reliable lie detector than the current use of polygraphs.
1984 here we come.
edit: Looks like they already use fMRIs as lie detectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_detector
sleep is for dreams, wake is for reality.
oh someone beat me to it.. poo..
heheh, well i'd think your wife would feel the same?
I agree with hawken on this one, reality ftw
That said, imagine if this could pick up the sounds you are imagining! music composers would be in heaven hahaa, or if you could see your 3D designs before they exist...that would be cool, but seeing your dreams seems pointless, theres no control, its too random in my opinion
these are pictures that were scanned directly from a brain as the images above were shown to them.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/
the future of art, or the death of artists?
or go the opposite way, dream up games for others to play.
Amazingly enough horses have not gone extinct just because someone showed you can turn a crank with peanut oil...
On the flip side i'd imagine there'll be a huge fad with pscholdelic light shows if we can record what goes on when we apply firm pressure to our eyes with our hands.
yo dawg, I heard you like dreaming of games...
oldy enough, today i dreamt about playing golf and some sorta weird carny type shooting game. true story.
The past 5yrs or so I haven't remembered many and the ones I do remember are horrific nightmares.
it'd make a great horror flic.
come back in 2014. most likely this thing will be in use by psychiatrists by then, and the home unit will be ready in 2018.
Dude, I am totally gonna hack your cyber-brain.
interesting tech though, calibrating a sensor to brain/blood flow. Wonder how varied the activity patterns were per person, and if you could learn to decalibrate yourself from the initial reference patterns.
CLOSED!
::OCZ BRAIN DEALIE::
Made by OCZ. I didn't have a spare $300 to test it out. And really, if I came home with one of these my wife would stab me in the balls.
Dejawolf made this thread a year ago, and just yesterday reposted the same link in a new thread. And Lamont, instead of posting in the new thread, posts in the old thread from a year ago.
It's some kind of bizarro world. I'm scared. Somebody hold me.