Originally posted by Jawon
what it comes down to is creating a device which can record the unconscious which by the way is composed of nothing while
at the same time is full of information. so is it possible to record information that does not exist? i read an article in wired i
believe about a man who was paralyzed from the neck down .. anyway to make a long story short a neuroscientist connects
the guys brain to a computer and the guy is able to move the mouse pointer on the computer screen merely by thinking it!!

now thats consciousness read by the machine.. but unconciousness is a vast pool of unknown knowledge which is much harder
to be understood by humans let alone machines.
If that info. doesn't exist, how do you know it? It's all these little things called neurons connecting to eachother and firing each other off. I suppose it would be possible to record ones dreams that way, but you would have to have some kind of super-high detailed mri thing that is really really fast, and the decoding program would have to re-adjust itself for each person.

For that thing where they stuck the little electrodes in his head, the neurons in that guys head randomly fired off at first and didn't know the controller was there. Eventually they reorganized so that he could cousciously move them on his own.

Some scientists took a bunch of rat neurons, put it on a joystick, and they learned to play MS Flight sim:
http://www.theregister.com/2004/12/07/rat_...rain_flies_jet/