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by holocaust

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Scientists from the university of california, in berkeley have been successful in tracing the spoken words to the pattern of electrical brain activity &, so can they see natural & eye scanned visuals on the screen.

In simple words, the auditory human sense can be heard & visual senses can be extracted too, including human thoughts. That means complete mind reading is now possible with advanced computer software emulation.
The idea is to measure the blood flow in the 'visual cortex', which is fed to the computer through the brain scanner.

The best part is, this technology can be combined with long range scanners, which can scan a particular persons mind, whether he's on walk, bus, train or a bike. The thoughts can be read on the go, even without the person knowing it; i.e. thoughts can be eavesdropped.

A. Advantages
1. Can read minds
2. Help paralytic patients
3. Help people who cant speak
4. Can be used for military purposes & sting operations
5. Can be combined with consoles & used for mind gaming, robotics & stuff.
B. Disadvantages:-
1. Breach in privacy
2. Can extract, through an individual, an important, secure & confidential information of individual, state or even a country
3. If developed or used by sinners, can be highly dangerous
4. Eavesdropping
5. No way to neutralize this technology

The technology is new, interesting & helpful in a sense; but, its disadvantages are far more dangerous & sensitive.

REFERENCES/ SOURCES:-
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/

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by charliespencer

From the linked article:

"As yet, the technology can only reconstruct movie clips people have already viewed."

You've used the word 'can' repeatedly when you should have used 'potentially'. In some cases, you've speculated beyond what is mentioned in the article, which says nothing about remote sensors, portability, or reading thoughts.

Reread it and then turn down the fantasy meter.

by ansugisalas

"sinners"?!?!?
Taken together with the person's nick, that's sort of an unpleasant wording.

And they're just monitoring blood flow, they have no tap on the signals itself, nor do they know how to tap or interpret those.

However, it's worth noting that the human brain is open-source. It doesn't try to hide its workings, so if we can access it, we can read it, and if we can talk to it, we can... well... talk to it.

by deadly ernest

telepaths from different spoken language backgrounds will communicate - in words, images, or concepts?

I really pity any poor fool who's dumb enough to have a go at reading the mess between my ears - it'll tie them up worse than a plate of spaghetti.

by ansugisalas

but who knows, maybe the tin foil will behave like it does in the microwave oven :D
Charbroiled holocaust. :^0

by deadly ernest

some concept / thought patterns by the way the brain works, yet we already know that some people's minds are wired very differently, and thus the whole concept is sputsville when they run across one of them.

by charliespencer

It probably takes a couple of sessions before the technicians can successfully interpret the information they're getting from a subject. I don't think we're going to see portable mind-readers with live output in any of our lifetimes.

by deadly ernest

the same amount of messing about to calibrate it in the first place. Even then it may not work with some people due to what we already know about how the brain works and how some people are hard wired in a different way, different enough to be obvious in an EEG.

by holocaust

Q. Too much misinterpreted
Ans. This article is a combination of many studies all around the web & produced to you in a shortest way i can. Reference being the only link to explain basics. Always remember the inventions are always brought only 5% to public. Me cant depend on one article to submit my views.
Q. Sinners who's nick?
Ans. Sinner the term is not used for the original inventors. Its used instead for ter_rorists. I had in simple english. Imagine what if they had this copied.
Q. Portability
Ans. Its said, it can be not is, so its a future modification. About this, it has already been on other forums too, (check TED conversations) & it is beyound the source's data.
Check this out actual speech decoded. http://blogs.plos.org/plospodcasts/2012/01/31/plos-biology-podcast-episode-02-decoding-speech-from-the-human-brain/
If i give every reference, refrences collumn will be bigger then blog itself. lolz
Such a great info, & its sad to see no tech related or some awesome replies, a plate of sphagetti a foil & -1 votes great. Thanx all for replies.

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