Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
Lol, there you go again. What are you talking about? You think people will willingly turn off their own cognitive faculties because they're 'useless'?
Why not? Thinking is a LOT more efficient when you don't have to speak every measly thing you're thinking about.
So, there YOU do again, assuming people will not use this in a beneficial way.
You're seriously arguing the dumbest fucking things recently.

Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
I can't find any decent bloody articles about the actual methodology as per usual, but it sounds like what they were doing was playing recordings of words to patients and trying to reconstruct the sound from brain activity. It is extremely dubious therefore whether this actually corresponds to 'mind reading' or not, because it is an unsolved question as to whether, or to what extent, human cognition (specifically high level, 'conceptual' cognition) is based on language, or to what extent thoughts in general, or even thoughts about words, produce as a by-product brain activity related to their physical enunciation.
As far as the article I posted explains it, they "trained" an algorithm to figure out what the neurons were doing. And then used another program to convert that in to audio.
I don't think they were reconstructing and altering it purposely to make it sound more like the original sound.

I was thinking about that last bit too, when I say some words in my head, they are not exactly the same as spoken words.
Like sometimes "t" is hardly pronounced, if at all, same with "s", "ou", "r" and probably a few others.