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Thursday, 11 December 2008

Scientists extract images directly from brain

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/11/scientists-extract-i.html
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14 comments:

  1. Now that's pretty neat. But I thought we didn't reconstruct in our brains what we see with our eyes....?

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  2. Dunno - but it sounds like there's somewhere in the brain that behaves somewhat like a frame-store (putting together what's been seen, and where it should be wrt where the eye was looking at the time {as it constantly tracks all over the show} )

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  3. [edit] I don't know about others, but I haven't/can't see the site (it's down)

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  4. At least they're not using a liquidizer to do it...

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  5. Can't wait for the dream recorder.

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  6. Researchers evidently implanted visions of sugar plums into the author of that article...
    The headline is a major scientific breakthrough. But the story simply says "brain does stuff, just you wait til the Future gets here."

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  7. Of course, the real thing that we want, is for scientists to extract calories directly from our bodies....

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  8. ...or to discover how to make all calories less tasty in the first place

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  9. I've decided I don't want to see the images from Dub's brain.

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