CAPTURING IMAGE MEMORIES. "Using brain scans to translate a person’s thoughts is nothing new. In 2010, researchers said they could tell which movie scene someone was thinking about based on fMRI data." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/01/mind-reading-brain-reconstruct-face_n_5049255.html View in LinkedIn
PROMISING START. "Scientists say they can now download signals from your brain — and translate them back into a picture that you saw. The images aren't crystal clear, but you can make out what's going on." https://lnkd.in/dvf2rM2 View in LinkedIn
RECONSTRUCTION VISUALS. "Scientists have now used brain scanners to hack into our thoughts like never before. After scanning the brains of men and women who were looking at photos of different faces, researchers at Yale University have found a way to reconstruct the image of those faces based solely on patterns of neural activity in the brain scans. Mind. Blown." https://lnkd.in/dhvwdie View in LinkedIn
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
ARTICLE AUTHOR. “Professor George Francis Rayner Ellis, FRS, Hon. FRSSAf (born 11 August 1939), is the emeritus distinguished professor of complex systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology. From 1989 to 1992 he served as president of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. He is a past president of the International Society for Science and Religion. He is an A-rated researcher with the NRF.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._R._Ellis View in LinkedIn
FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend touches on the subject of causation in the biological phenomenon of emergence. The article author has had a distinguished career as a physicist concentrating on complexity. He brings a different viewpoint on how emergence in complexity happens. View in LinkedIn
NOT QUITE READY FOR MARKET. "And here's why you can’t go grab a brain-to-text device and hook it up to the internet just yet: For one, the patients' skulls were split open and electrode sheets were attached directly to their brains." http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-device-reads-your-mind-and-types-your-thoughts View in LinkedIn
