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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

COMBINED CAUSATION. “It is the combination of bottom-up and top-down causation that enables same-level behaviour to emerge at higher levels, because the entities at the higher level set the context for the lower level actions in such a way that consistent same-level behaviour emerges at the higher level.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

LOCALIZED WORDS. "As each patient spoke, a computer algorithm learned to associate speech sounds—such as "foh", "net", and "ik"—with different firing patterns in the brain cells. Eventually it learned to read the brain cells well enough that it could guess which sound they were producing with up to 75 percent accuracy." http://www.popsci.com/mind-reading-technology-turns-thoughts-text View in LinkedIn

TWO CAUSATIONS. “Both bottom-up and top-down causation occur in the hierarchy of structure and causation. Bottom-up causation is the basic way physicists think: lower level action underlies higher level behaviour, for example physics underlies chemistry, biochemistry underlies cell biology and so on.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn