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SINCE 2001. "Scientists have been able to tell what people are looking at by using brain decoding since 2001. “We were quite surprised it worked as well as it did,” Jim Haxby, the Dartmouth University scientist who invented the process, told Nature." https://lnkd.in/dTJdpzB View in LinkedIn

DIGITIZED THOUGHTS. "Mind, prepare to be blown—and scanned, by a device that can almost read thoughts, or at least digitize them into almost-identifiable images. No, it’s not some artsy video project, it’s for real: a system developed by University of California Berkeley scientists to capture visual activity in our brains and reassemble it as recognizable video data." https://lnkd.in/dGJbaGg View in LinkedIn

OLD HAT. "When Stephen Hawking talks, a laser pointed at his face detects whether he's moving one of the only muscles he still has control over as a computer cycles through individual letters of the alphabet, determining what he’s trying to say. It's an excruciatingly slow process, and it can take several minutes for him to say anything at all. What if, instead, a computer could simply read his mind?" https://lnkd.in/deUdeQq View in LinkedIn

THE BASIS. "The new realization is that every thought is associated with a pattern of brain activity...you can train a computer to recognize the pattern associated with a particular thought. Just like you can find one person in a million through fingerprints ... you can find one thought in a million." https://lnkd.in/djYymST View in LinkedIn

"THOUGHT IDENTIFICATION refers to the empirically verified use of technology to, in some sense, read people's minds." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_identification View in LinkedIn

THE DOWNSIDE. "If thoughts are truly digital, could the right hacker spy on your thoughts? Could law enforcement get a warrant to read your thoughts?" https://lnkd.in/eFd9Fdg View in LinkedIn

(UN)IMAGINABLE. "What if you could transmit not just images, sounds and the like, but emotions? Intellectual concepts? All of that is likely to eventually be possible, given a high enough bandwidth connection to the brain." https://lnkd.in/eFd9Fdg View in LinkedIn

BIGGER DREAM. "What if you could directly beam that to another human being? Or, across the Internet, to any of the billions of human beings who might choose to tune into your mind-stream online?" https://lnkd.in/eFd9Fdg View in LinkedIn

KEY TURNING POINT. "Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex. The results provide insights into higher order neural speech processing and suggest it may be possible to readout intended speech directly from brain activity." Such important findings are difficult to untangle from the obtuse language used in this technical report. It means brain-to-text translation. http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001251 View in LinkedIn

THE DREAM. "What if you could directly beam an image in your thoughts onto a computer screen?" https://lnkd.in/eFd9Fdg View in LinkedIn