MRIs That Read Your Thoughts

Nicholas Roussos writes "Functional MRIs have been used in several studies to accurately predict what volunteers were looking at even when they themselves were unsure. According to the BBC, 'When two images were flashed in quick succession, the volunteers only consciously saw the second one and were unable to make out the first. But the brain scans clearly distinguished the patterns of brain activity created by the "invisible" images.'"

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Very exciting...

[RM6f9]

C'mon! I mean, who hasn't secretly harbored a desire to hack the most complex OS we know of, the one that (mostly) resides in approx. 3 lbs of wet-ware? Being able to identify responses to specific stimuli with *objective* accuracy is a HUGE step - next will be cross-subject verification of which portions of the patterns are stimulus-specific vs. subject-specific, then the massive database project of "These signals equal these thoughts", then direct brain language (independent of verbal languages)... On a different track, we'll have signal transmission direct to brain, and THAT's when my tin-hat goes onto my head.