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    Default Scientists Soon to Read People's Mind ?

    I find that disturbing to say the least, sci-fi until the 90's, soon to be reality ?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo


    The left clip is a segment of a Hollywood movie trailer that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this segment from brain activity measured using fMRI. The procedure is as follows:
    [1] Record brain activity while the subject watches several hours of movie trailers.
    [2] Build dictionaries (i.e., regression models) that translate between the shapes, edges and motion in the movies and measured brain activity. A separate dictionary is constructed for each of several thousand points at which brain activity was measured.
    (For experts: The real advance of this study was the construction of a movie-to-brain activity encoding model that accurately predicts brain activity evoked by arbitrary novel movies.)
    [3] Record brain activity to a new set of movie trailers that will be used to test the quality of the dictionaries and reconstructions.
    [4] Build a random library of ~18,000,000 seconds (5000 hours) of video downloaded at random from YouTube. (Note these videos have no overlap with the movies that subjects saw in the magnet). Put each of these clips through the dictionaries to generate predictions of brain activity. Select the 100 clips whose predicted activity is most similar to the observed brain activity. Average these clips together. This is the reconstruction.

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    ^^ **** me, that's creepy.

    PS: We need an incognito mode for our brains, just in case our women lay their hands on these machines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twinblade View Post
    ^^ **** me, that's creepy. PS: We need an incognito mode for our brains, just in case our women lay their hands on these machines.
    Silly noobs. I've been running my brain waves in a heavy encryption mode.

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    Maybe we could read your Soul soon too, Man.

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    Mine would look like this:

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    Another problem the government can not handle. I smell abuse and it hasn't even started yet.

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    great, so from now men will not be able to cheat on their wives....

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrYsIs View Post
    great, so from now men will not be able to cheat on their wives....
    I have no problem with that..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorro C9 View Post
    Maybe we could read your Soul soon too, Man.
    there is no soul in science.


    Quote Originally Posted by KittyWolf View Post
    I have no problem with that..
    you are a woman?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorro C9 View Post
    Maybe we could read your Soul soon too, Man.
    I have no soul. Just terabytes of internet smut.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twinblade View Post
    I have no soul. Just terabytes of internet smut.
    But smut is in the eye of the actress.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorro C9 View Post
    Maybe we could read your Soul soon too, Man.
    Good pun, I know I had it coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrYsIs View Post
    great, so from now men will not be able to cheat on their wives....
    Women never cheat ?

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    Get your damn dirty mind reading machine out of my mind you dirty scientists!!

    But i want one of those machines , i will go to a bank with it >

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    I'm afraid the machine will explode if it was connected to my head.

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