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(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

BRAIN-TO-TEXT. "A brain-to-text system can translate brain activity into written words." http://www.popsci.com/mind-reading-technology-turns-thoughts-text View in LinkedIn

SMART PREDICTION. "We are going to be talking to our computers.” https://lnkd.in/deszndk View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATE MOVEMENTS. "Technology can reconstruct video based on a person's thoughts and even anticipate your moves while you drive." https://lnkd.in/djGb_Y5 View in LinkedIn

BOTTOM UP CAUSATION. “Self-assembly and self-structuring based on bottom-up action alone can lead to emergence of structures such as crystals and simple biological molecules, or of dynamical systems with attractors leading to entities such as stars and galaxies, and to more complex phenomena such as Bénard cells, patterns associated with the reaction–diffusion equation and sand piles, the dynamics of the Game of Life, properties of slime mould, existence of ant colonies and the behaviour of flocks of birds.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

NESTED HIERARCHIES. “Multi-fold causation takes place in such systems. A network of causal influences and constraints interact to produce an outcome.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn

EXPLAINING UPWARDS. “Ideas applicable to lower level causation do not by themselves succeed in explaining the higher level behaviours, for the concepts employed are simply not appropriate to the higher level kinds of causation.” https://lnkd.in/dnngg6a View in LinkedIn