Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment



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Yep, it's real. They've been able to do it for quite a while now.

Now the next big challenge they're taking on is visualizing your dreams. :)
 
the problem i have always had with this sci fi concept of recording your 'dreams' etc as a 'video' or something others can watch - it is a crude metaphor - dreams (at least mine and i assume most peoples) are really very litle like movies, they are not limited to a normal sense of 3 dimensions, nor are the visual elements strictly visual - i cannot really explain this well - because there are dream or imagination components of experience that are a whole different type of consciousness - something quite different - and yes the artist - as i try to do (I'm a painter and an seo, makes perfect sense right ;)
- always valiantly and lovingly tries to suggest these realms through their art with the guarantee of failure every time, which is what makes it so wonderful, accepting that and striving anyway - but i guess one day i hope and have vision for something that isn't a 'movie' shared experience but more a literal one where those higher realms of experience - as in psychedelic or lucid dream states could be some how "captured" or shared or whatever - my interest as an artist is more to create TRUE experiential (age of spiritual machines) type of virtual reality. But i simply dont believe that the brain in the materialistic sense is so simple as this... you cant boil consciousness down to synapses...

there are more interesting newer theories of the micro-tubules thought as only helping guide brains development actually working as a kind of quantum computer etc. but to make the leap from how vision as a sense is processed to recording dreams as movies is unfortunately laughable as they are so inherently different, at least intense lucid dreams for those who has them know what i mean
 
One thing is certain: Interrogations are most definitely going to get easier.

The day such interrogations are accepted as evidence in court is the day that all liberty has finally been dashed for good.
 
Nothing new, the topographical arrangement of the visual cortex has been known for at least 15 years. Recording its neuronal activity with sufficient accuracy is the problem. At the back of the head the visual cortex is topographically aranged in respect of the retina (reversed on both axis) allowing at least the recording of outlines with sensitive enough equipment. The interesting part is that imagining a scene causes the same pattern of activation as seeing the same scene albeit at a lower level of activation. If they could advance the technology enough you could have a program that could turn your imaginings into a 3d scene. Would save a lot of (web)designers at lot of shit with their clients.

Dream recording would be awesome.
 
yoyomango said:
Nothing new, the topographical arrangement of the visual cortex has been known for at least 15 years. Recording its neuronal activity with sufficient accuracy is the problem. At the back of the head the visual cortex is topographically aranged in respect of the retina (reversed on both axis) allowing at least the recording of outlines with sensitive enough equipment. The interesting part is that imagining a scene causes the same pattern of activation as seeing the same scene albeit at a lower level of activation. If they could advance the technology enough you could have a program that could turn your imaginings into a 3d scene. Would save a lot of (web)designers at lot of shit with their clients.

Dream recording would be awesome.
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^^^ not to be this big downer... but mapping the visual sense topography of input in the brain is one thing.... but it taking the leap from that to comparing he human consciousness / imagination and especially states like dreams is phenomenally naive.

like comparing a stone tablet to and ipad x 1000

... not trying to be rude about it, it just is a theme in the article, movies, etc which people seem to not really reflect on the depth of and nature of the human mind

science thinks it knows so much, only greatest scientists know the more you learn the more you realize you know less... science is about questions not answers
 
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