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But I'm sure it isn't developed enough for that yet.]]>May 31st 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Jun 3rd 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/test subject: about that...]]>May 31st 2008 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/

I think you forgot the obligatory tinfoil hats. Metal hats would seriously mess up an MRI (if the intense magnetic force doesn't rip them off your head first.)]]>May 31st 2008 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Jun 1st 2008 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/I also thought there would be more DOOM related comments...]]>May 31st 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/
In any case, I love the avatar. I was thinking of choosing it as my avatar as well.]]>May 31st 2008 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/]]>May 31st 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Mr. Pilot-man: Not guilty.
Audience: *gasp*
Judge: Order, Order! ]]>May 31st 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Jun 1st 2008 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/
Judge: Mr. Pezzelli, you said you got home by car, but we know you're lying. The mind-reader clearly says: Airplane. And what about the poison you administered your wife? You said it was arsenic, but we know it's Celery.
Therefore, you're innocent.
Oh, and by the way, what is the secret ingredient of your famous pasta dish?

Mind-reader: Celery.

Mr. Pezzelli: Damn.
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Judge: Mr. Pezzelli, you said you got home by car, but we know you're lying. The mind-reader clearly says: Airplane. And what about the poison you administered your wife? You said it was arsenic, but we know it's Celery.
Therefore, you're innocent.
Oh, and by the way, what is the secret ingredient of your famous pasta dish?

Mind-reader: Celery.

Mr. Pezzelli: Damn.
]]>Jun 1st 2008 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Jun 1st 2008 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Celery on a Plane]]>Jun 1st 2008 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/
Guess this computer's only designed the US
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http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-06/mf_neurohacks]]>May 31st 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/The word airplane was expected to produce frontal lobe responses but instead it produced a scattered mix of prefrontal lobe, a scant activation of the right temporal lobe, and a blip almost evenly bilaterally in the midbrain region. The airplane response is not surprising given that it is an active as well as visually engaging experience PLUS the post 9-11 recollections encoded in memory via traumatic encoding.
This type of MRI actually detects what a person thinks and feels about a word, or a concept, or a person, etc.
When used in interrogation, it is passive interrogation. However, this type of technology removes all elements of free will and choice.
Some find that offensive. Some find that useful. Regardless, it is the most highly invasive technology there is to date, and the fact that it has been paraded around the public lately is because we are likely to have it introduced into various realms of our society any time soon.
Psychiatrists will want to use them, attorneys, of course NSA/FBI and the like, and perhaps even employers to see if their prospective employees really want to work there. Future spouses may wish to have a fiance take one to insure that he doesn't think I'm really fat or that she is not marrying me for my money. And, because technology is so far advanced from contact probes and electrodes to remote wireless forms of
connections, it is likely that these could conceivably be installed in airports and Federal Buildings to visualize the emotional brainset of those passing through. It fully circumvents the 4th amendment in it's future
applications. ]]>May 31st 2008 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Jun 1st 2008 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/May 31st 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/]]>May 31st 2008 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/
The scans are completely different. It you were actually writing the MRI scan as a symbol the two scans would be like a letter E and letter F. The two symbols are similar in structure but completely different in meaning.

While the celery scan may have protions that match the actual word may be carrot, or brocoli. Or it could be stick or celeron. Point is we do not know and have absolutely no idea how the brain stores information.

I was in several cog psych classes at Carnegie Mellon. I had fun disproving every memory theory that was presented. There is not one way people store information in thier brains. There may be similar ways but some people have a photographic memory and others can remember words as they hear them.

I for one can't remember a phone number to save my life but I can draw a perfect layout of any room that I walked in for a few seconds. What scares me is that people want to use MRI brain scans as evidence in court cases to prove or disprove guilt. Like showing brainscans of a murderer seeing a weapon when a scan of a 5 year old playing a video game shows the same thing.]]>May 31st 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/
havingababy.net
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For example, look at the words shown in the article. When they were told to "think" about the item in question, what exactly did they focus on? Imagery of the item? The sound of the words themselves? Properties of the items like smell, taste or texture? Perhaps the objects themselves weren't even entered into the thought process, but instead, the sensations or emotions they personally feel when presented with those items, such the memory of a positive event that just happened to have celery around, or perhaps apprehension toward airplanes out of a few of heights (or more likely, the events of 9/11 if you're a US citizen...).

These are things you can't universally quantify across the board. You *might* be able to use this sort of thing to discover a person's fears in context to imagery and sensations you present to them when they're hooked into such a system, but it's unlikely you'll ever read their exact thoughts using such methods.]]>Jun 1st 2008 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/
The way I would see this working is that the computer records activity while you type, trying to get a general image of how your brain works while typing pressing certain keys, and then eventually you take the keyboard away and touch type in mid air (this would only work for touch typers who don't look at the keys), and then it may be possible to remove the action entirely, although this is where my inexperience in neuro science prevents me from knowing for certain if it'll work.

But the concept of using an AI to 'learn' how your brain works seems much more likely than just 'reading' your thoughts.]]>Jun 1st 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Jun 25th 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/Jun 1st 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/
I concur with the ADD issues and... look a a celery plane!]]>Jun 3rd 2008 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/31/computer-designed-to-read-thoughts-from-brain-scans/
Seriously, we have it, but they don't think the general public needs to know. ]]>Jun 3rd 2008 1:29PM