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Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data
In a world first, a research group in Kyoto Japan has succeeded in processing and displaying optically received images directly from the human brain. Here's the Japanese press release for good measure. One step closer to broadcasting your dreams? The research is due to be published today in the US scientific journal Neuron
It was a male subject and the image was Hentai.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
THEY have been able to do this for decades! Where is your tinfoil hat now? Ha!
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Dr. Walter Bishop (Cambridge) was doing this in the '70s.
And imagine spending the next week try to figure out GIMP to be able to do anything with it~
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Maybe that's how we'll get a space elevator?
He can probably already touch the moon. Don't you know your Vonegut?
Isaac's in heaven now.
I assume that Asimov got to tag the moon on his way by. Best speech opening ever.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
As to writing about stuff that never happened, THIS never happened - until now. The "hyperdrive" (what Roddenberry renamed "warp drive") was never invented - yet. Roddenberry and his writers were prescient, too. I remember a world without cell phones, flat screen talking computers, self-opening doors, and space shuttles (I remember a world without space travel at all).
Wow. Your UID should have a minus sign in front of it.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Would looking at the image your brain is generating at the same time you are generating it create a feedback loop much like holding a microphone too close to a speaker?
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich?
Groucho not Karl.
Sorry - If you don't recognize the quote and have no context, it's not funny at all.
Vonnegut (misspelled in my post above) became honorary president of the American Humanist Association after Isaac Asimov, their former president, passed on. As such, he had the somewhat awkward honor of addressing the Association at their first meeting after losing their president and had to come up with some way to say goodbye to Isaac and start his speech. (If you're unfamiliar with Humanism, it's an entirely human-based religion/philosophy. Its members are largely atheist or agnostic and practice strict scientific skepticism while shunning religious superstitions or unsupported beliefs - Heaven/Hell included. The idea that Asimov, as president of the AHA, would have any literal belief in Heaven would be ludicrous.)
According to Vonnegut, opening his speech with
Isaac's in heaven now.
not only did a great job of breaking the ice in a very awkward situation, but set the entire ball-room laughing out loud.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.