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I'm in ur brainz watching u dream.

Started by Da6s, August 09, 2009, 08:25:18 PM

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Da6s

August 09, 2009, 08:25:18 PM
http://bigbigpix.blogspot.com/2009/08/brain.html

QuoteResearchers from Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person's mind and display them on a computer monitor. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people's dreams while they sleep.


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We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Kai

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August 09, 2009, 08:44:29 PM
Quote from: Da6s on August 09, 2009, 08:25:18 PM
http://bigbigpix.blogspot.com/2009/08/brain.html

QuoteResearchers from Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person's mind and display them on a computer monitor. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people's dreams while they sleep.


One step closer to a cyberspace deck.

Scary.
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Elder Iptuous

#2
August 09, 2009, 08:57:21 PM
exhilarating!
but, whatcha wanna bet that when we record dreams, we find out that they really aren't pictures at all until we wake up and interpret the signals as memories or something else anticlimactic...

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#3
August 09, 2009, 09:26:03 PM
Wow, I really want movies of my dreams because my dreams are AWESOME.
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#4
August 09, 2009, 09:34:41 PM
can't find any good sources for this, at least the trail seems to end on a japanese site I can't read, but it has none of the pics from the article.
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Da6s

#5
August 09, 2009, 09:40:38 PM
This site was in the top 5 hits after i googled ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories.

I don't think it's fake, but like you said, main source is a .jp that surprisingly doesn't have porn. That i've seen. yet.

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/


We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Cainad (dec.)

#6
August 09, 2009, 09:59:18 PM
This technology could potentially be used to prove that my dreams are among the most boring things in existence, which would explain why I hardly ever remember them.

Kai

#7
August 09, 2009, 11:03:50 PM
All I see is this technology leading us ever closer to Feed.
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#8
August 10, 2009, 12:18:09 AM
the psychiatric medicine implications are interesting, as well as the dream recording and art stuff, Like most tech its great if used ethically but we as Mostly Hairless Monkeys have issues with that kind of thing.

would make getting the right tattoo design easier if you cant draw!

Eater of Clowns

#9
August 10, 2009, 02:18:44 AM
I have very little dream recall.  Maybe once a month.  I'd love to know what I dream about.

I'm not clicking on a link to a site called pink tentacle in a thread where Japan has been mentioned.
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#10
August 10, 2009, 02:45:32 AM
I would much rather be able to experience the dream rather than watch it.  A big part of dreaming, for me, is the emotion that goes with it.  Like, if I dream that I go on a roller coaster, i feel that twinge in my pelvis that occurs when going down that steep hill.  Watching dreams? meh. SHARING a dream, now we're talkin!

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#11
August 10, 2009, 11:48:35 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on August 10, 2009, 02:18:44 AM
I have very little dream recall.  Maybe once a month.  I'd love to know what I dream about.

I'm not clicking on a link to a site called pink tentacle in a thread where Japan has been mentioned.

it was totally safe. No naughty tentacles at all.  was even safe for work!

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#12
August 10, 2009, 05:05:22 PM
If I remember correctly, this was the one where they used neural nets trained on the person's normal visual system... I read about this in New Scientist, which as usual had an article written by someone unfamiliar with the technology ;-). It seems like one downside with this is that you'd need months of training to get an image at all, and the other is that (if the pictures from the article I read are still representative) you'd just get a really low-res monochrome version with a lot of noise.

More practical is probably the implant that has been extensively tested on monkeys that allows them to move a robotic arm with their mind well enough to perform simple tasks.


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#13
August 10, 2009, 07:23:17 PM
I may be wrong about this
but if I recall correctly, the electrical activity which we call a Dream is not exclusive to the visual cortex.

so this is more like watching the video track from a dream, but missing all the symbolic/associative meaning.


this sounds like crazy cyberpunk max headroom tech, and I can't wait for those fucking japanese to make it into the best sex toy ever conceived.


also, if anybody's going to trip through my dreams, I want it to be J-Lo


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August 11, 2009, 12:37:32 AM Last Edit: August 11, 2009, 12:39:51 AM by Pixie O'Fubar
Quote from: Cramulus on August 10, 2009, 07:23:17 PM
his sounds like crazy cyberpunk max headroom tech, and I can't wait for those fucking japanese to make it into the best sex toy ever conceived.....


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