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Telepathy machine reconstructs speech from brainwaves - health - 31 January 2012 - New Scientist
Runs rings around the pathetic attempts to reconstruct images. Which were really just a novelty with no real future in them.
I guess if they ever get to a point where this can be done easily, it's a massive +1 for the meditaters who can shut their brain up :D
Automatic dream journal entries! So much for my plan of using Morse Code. :(
Awwww shit.... how did I not think of that? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by IAmCoder
Could record it while sleeping.
I'm sure there's still another several years before it becomes useable.
So in the meantime your Morse code idea sounds great.
Have you gotten anywhere with that yet?
That's awesome. But could you imagine that kind of technology in the hands of a totalitarian state?
dat thought crime D:
I find it disarmingly cute how you always feels compelled to insert some bizarre kernel of impenetrable absurdity into your posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommo
These new technologies are all pretty cool, although none of them really represents any new understanding. I'm not sure of any practical benefits to this... speaking with my mouth was never much of an issue. I suppose for mutes it is very promising.
I just find it hilarious when you find any possible sentence in a person's post to baselessly argue with, without so much as mentioning a word of what the person actually said. That level of passive and vague insult takes skill, and is humorous on numerous levels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Recording dream journals from in dreams would be one example, or for paralysed people, people with locked-in syndrome. Although they were all mentioned in the article and previous posts so I'm not surprised you were oblivious to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
You do know what 'mute' means, right..?
IAmCoder already said that it'd make communication with the external world in lucid dreams much easier than previously, I didn't think saying it twice would add much to the conversation... sorry?
Every step that's taken towards true BCI represents a massive shift in the trajectory of the human species, with BCI being (in my opinion) an actual singularity in the sense that history, technology, and the species will be irrevocably changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
I don't tend to disagree that an understanding of neuroscience and developments in technology will greatly change our species, it's just that I don't see how this in particular is very important. It'd be kind of redundant learning how to speak again when just using your existing voicebox to speak, which can then be detected by a computer just as immediately, pretty much amounts to the same thing.
Nice, can't watch the video where I am but would be interesting to see results on someone in a coma. Or used on someone seconds after passing away..
They wouldn't be able to use this device.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowOfSelf
Sounds like they still got a little ways to go, because the sounds were just barely recognizable. I wouldn't underestimate how useful it would be for people who can not speak though. Your first reaction might be that it isn't many, but there are actually millions of people just in the US who could benefit from it.
You said you're "not sure of any practical benefits to this" which is a lot different from simply not mentioning something that someone else already said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
There's also the use that people could record their internal dialogue for a day and realise how insane they really are. It could also be used to shut off the internal dialogue which is entirely useless in most situations, if not all.
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'?
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.
Why not? Thinking is a LOT more efficient when you don't have to speak every measly thing you're thinking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
So, there YOU do again, assuming people will not use this in a beneficial way.
You're seriously arguing the dumbest fucking things recently.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
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.
Your statement is still just as impenetrably bizarre and unfounded, sorry. Cognitive neuroscience is nowhere near developed enough to tell if what you're saying even makes any sense, let alone is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommo
The assumption that thought isn't actually based on language, the assumption that if it isn't then it's totally disposable, the assumption that a purely representational language faculty would somehow 'slow down' thought, again the assumption that such a faculty actually functions when not speaking... I don't have any clue why you think these are solid assumptions. But you seem convinced that what you're saying is totally well-founded and sensible.
Why not?Quote:
Originally Posted by cmind
Yeah coz everyone doesn't do that on a daily basis or anything. It's one of the most founded things there is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
The inner dialogue is completely disposable. All you have to do is try it and see. Just stop talking in your head. You'll see it serves no positive use whatsoever. I couldn't give a flying fuck whether this has been proven by neuroscience. And it so obviously slows down thought because you have to "say" everything in your head after you actually think of it. If you think the internal dialogue is the actual thought.... I have no hope for you.
I suggest you begin a career in cognitive science, because you appear to be in possession of proof of one of the most crucial and contentious issues in the field. As you clearly consider yourself far more intelligent and penetrating than the combined thousands of experimental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and neuroscientists who actually spend their lives researching these issues, you would definitely be an invaluable asset.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommo
Oh wait, you're actually sub sophomoric and incapable of conceptualising an even remotely adequate thought experiment. Glaring flaws includeQuote:
The inner dialogue is completely disposable. All you have to do is try it and see. Just stop talking in your head. You'll see it serves no positive use whatsoever.
1. Equating a meditative state in which one nullifies one's own thought processes to a state involving active and spontaneous thought.
2. Failing to consider that one may not be conscious of the mechanisms underlying cognition.
3. More generally completely unaware of the extremely well established pitfalls of introspection in psychology.
4. Apparently adopting a rudimentary Cartesian theatre (!) in which potentially parallel mental faculties are clogged up in a centralising unit.Quote:
And it so obviously slows down thought because you have to "say" everything in your head after you actually think of it.
I have no scientific studies proving it. I do have observation, the same which almost every human shares.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
No. When did I do this? What I'm saying is you can think so much more clearly when you just shut up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
That's not at all what I'm talking about. What you linked to is about decisions and behaviour. i.e I did this because I felt this or because this happened etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Not objective observations about how much saying things in your head slows down thought.
Just think about when you're studying something, and you are just flowing perfectly, totally in to whatever the subject is. You aren't sitting there internally announcing everything you think.
Instead, you are just having the actual thoughts and doing. Everyone knows reading aloud is slower than just reading, right? (for the average person who hasn't trained to speak 123209 words a minute for a Guinness record). You're gonna pick on the logical jump for this, but, imagine how much faster the thinking process is when you're not talking in your head.
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
We could get information from terrorists without torture. Just a thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Well, if it reconstructs internal dialogue, there has to be internal dialogue to reconstruct.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowOfSelf
Well yeah, but do we know if people in comas have internal dialogue? Or is this the tech we need to find out.Quote:
Originally Posted by snoop
People in comas for the most part have little brain function mostly just the subconscious part that regulates the body to keep it from dying. However there is no thinking going on. People in comas don't have dreams the entire time they're unconscious or anything. They may have a dream when they're coming out of the coma. But it's not really a normal thing. So no they probably don't have internal dialogue.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowOfSelf
Are you kidding? There could be tons of practical benefits of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Well I guess we will find out...Quote:
Originally Posted by Irken
inb4 Xei ridicules you for not providing any of these tonnes of benefits.Quote:
Originally Posted by MindGames
Lol. Just to name a few (I'm too lazy to check if these have already been said in this thread):Quote:
Originally Posted by tommo
- Military thought-to-speech for missions where you have to be absolutely silent.
- Having silent phone conversations.
- Dream journalling in your sleep
- Doing any kind of journalling or documenting on the go
- Recording your thoughts.
- Brain training
There is plenty of stuff you could do with this technology. And I think most people will agree that it would be kickass to have a telepathic conversation.
Say what y'all will, I'm just going to be freaking out [in a good way] when technology can record the vocal track I hear in my head for my songs. :D
It gets really hard when I have to hit a high E-flat in real life, but I can hear that sound in my head just fine! ^_^
All I said was that I wasn't sure of any. That's totally different from ridiculing people for suggesting that there were some. It's just that your particular idea was unintelligible and stupid. MindGames on the other hand was actually able to come up with something good.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommo
(P.S. you started this thread by totally writing off any benefits of image reconstruction, great job putting your own foot in your mouth there).
wtf....I didn't write off the benefits of it. At all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
I said that this was much more promising.
The image reconstruction they are working on now is COMPLETELY infeasible!
It's like a brute force type of thing which just isn't going to work without some inconceivably/impossibly powerful computer.
This will be awesome too. I come up with some amazing songs in my head, full orchestral compositions. But I have no way of getting themQuote:
Originally Posted by Signet
in to the real world.