Lol, IN THE AIR!. Nice one.
Anyway, did nobody read my drunk reply? Everything your assuming about this technology is WAY off.
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cool, the first times i was lucid i started to thing how i can show the things i saw to my friends.
"i'll take a picture. wait, the camera is no longer there when i wake up, damn!"
pretty awsome to be able to watch others dream. then you can wake them up if they have nightmares :D
Too bad we CAN'T see peoples dreams.
if this technology gets completed...
HOLY F*CK
here's a couple of good reads, seems they're getting closer...
http://www.livescience.com/health/05...tal_brain.html
http://www.livescience.com/health/05...interface.html
from the second one:
"In 2003, researchers at Duke University taught rhesus monkeys to consciously control the movement of a real time robotic arm using only feedback from a video screen and their thoughts. The monkeys appeared to operate the robotic arm as if it were their own limb.
A team led by neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis implanted a tiny array of brain-signal-detecting microelectrodes in the monkey's brain. They trained the monkey with a joystick that moved a cursor on a screen, and, once the monkey had mastered that task, the robotic limb was added to the feedback loop. After a few days, the monkey realized the connection between moving the cursor and moving the arm.
Once that connection was established, the researchers removed the joystick. The monkey slowly figured out that it could still move the cursor and robotic arm by moving its own arm. After a few days without the joystick, the monkey realized that it could move the robotic arm without moving its own.
It had mastered a neuroprosthetic limb. "
Awesome!
Would definitely come in handy for those nights when you wake up and can't remember what the person in your dream looks like.
Absolute far cry.
These 400 pictures were most likely the alphabet shown in different styles, colours, and sizes to arrive at a mean neural response for each letter - albeit with noise.
They then showed volunteers the six letters in the word 'neuron' and succeeded in reconstructing the letters on a computer screen by measuring their brain activity.
It is obvious here that each letter of the word 'neuron' was shown individually. Then, it's likely that the neural response from each observed letter was compared to the mean neuron response calculated from the previous pictures.
If the word was shown in itself, however, then the neural response pattern would have differed greatly, and they wouldn't have been able to reconstruct the word. The problem lies in the reconstruction order, and quite simply, the general compilation.
Ultimately, their technology did not reconstruct the word 'neuron', it simply matched neural activity of individual simple stimuli, i.e. letters, to previous neural activity that was elicited by, most likely, letters. The experimenter's knew what they were looking for, and thus had only to match neural activity.
Sensory experiences do not produce invariant neural displays, and therefore, such technology is useless.
(ps. I haven't read the original article, so this is speculation).
great, This could be bad.
think, someone's watching your recorded dream (non lucid, sex dream!)
that would be horrific :(
or something embarrassing like going to work/school with no pants on.
I didn't think that we were this advanced! Well that's Japan for you.
...God I wish that I was Japanese... or Romanian... :P
But it'd suck to have someone else see... :eek:
My thoughts exactly.
I think it'd be awesome to have a kind of "video-recorded" DJ, so that I could watch what happened, the way it happened, rather than have to rely on my own memory based on my writings (and I must stress that human memory is NOT like a video recorder whatsoever, so some of the things I 'remember' from my dreams could really be misremembered).
OMFG!!! this is Awesome! though i found out about this from my brother like just 3 months ago. wanted to add my opinion. So exciting!!! just think no more having to improve dream recall! :bowdown: damn i love those crazy asians :lol: only japenese people would be crazy enough to think of this :P haha i could totally make my own movie when lucid :boogie: though its gonna be scary once they figure out how to read thoughts an shit.... but even with the drawbacks i believe its still worth it! think about it even though airplanes can do a lot of bad things (like dropping bombs) can you honestly say you'd rather they never been invented? if you can your lying! :P b/c of airplanes we can travel around the world without it taking like 2yrs.i guess what im trying to say is it can be good or bad depending on how people use it, an you cant control EVERYONE so there no doubt itll be used for some bad things buttt...theres no point in being paranoid about it :nono: or else youll miss out on the awesomeness of it :banana:
The definition of logical isn't subjective so mine is exactly the same as yours is if you know what it means.
So if you do I'm guessing you just misread the article or just took what everyone else said as gospel. Either way you have become fallen into a logical fallacy and you FAIL!
Thats Cool! Its amazing how far technology has advanced in 100 years.
dream journals will be rendered useless.