Your dreams on a PC screen!
p2pnet news view | Cool:- Japanese scientists have apparently come up with a dream machine.
Quite literally.
A team at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories has built a system which reportedly allows them to peer into your brain while it’s asleep and display the results on a computer screen.
“The scientists, lead by chief researcher Yukiyaso Kamitani, focused on the image recognition procedures in the retina of the human eye,” says The Telegraph, going on:
“It is while looking at an object that the eye’s retina is able to recognise an image, which is subsequently converted into electrical signals sent into the brain’s visual cortex.
“The research investigated how electrical signals are captured and reconstructed into images, according to the study, which will be published in the US journal Neuron.”
The team has so far only managed to reproduce simple images from the brain, but, “they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people’s minds,” says Agence France-Presse, adding:
” ‘It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity,’ the private institute said in a statement.”
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December 11th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
In recent news the MPAA has sued the Japaneese demanding they add movie detecting software to the progam. In the even you dream about a movie the software will contact the MPAA and a lawsuit will automatically be filed. The Riaa would like to add to this a ‘3 strikes’ rule where the dreamer is given greater shocks for dreaming of songs and music videos. The third shock shall be set at a voltage to kill the sleeper’s dream center of the brain.
December 11th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
If one looks at references in Sumerian tablets one will see this kind of tech has been around since then. It was used by leaders to see into a human being’s minds for truth. It was also used to navigate their craft.
US and Russian military, CIA and others have done extensive studies and came up with full control systems for craft and other tasks. Another extension of this is remote viewing.
Old tech is new again, go figure
December 12th, 2008 at 3:39 am
“Aperature science labratories reminds you that the dreams that you are currently experiencing may be fabrications created by an outside entity using Windows Vista.”
oh no.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Queen of the Damned was plausible .. Cool.