Quote Originally Posted by picnic vs tornado View Post
I posted something in one of the other threads. Essentially, I'm convinced this is hype or wishful thinking, and not generally possible unless you lived in a lab all your life and every bit of information you ever experienced was catalogued while hooked into a a system of computers to map your neural activity. Although there is a genuinely interesting and valid breakthrough regarding understanding how we formulate memories that is being piggybacked here. And it's a sublime, wonderful scientific discovery, which was I believe originally uncovered this summer by a team of Israeli scientists. They simply came up with a way of mapping where short term memories were stored and then later accessed by using short video clips and asking people to describe them later, which is quite a long way removed from decoding anything so complex as a dream or even a simple image not presented in a controlled setting, given the fact that every individual's neural map of experiences is bound to differ greatly. The razzle dazzle sell is the one that gains steam though. If we were to all be raised with a controlled set of experiences and a team of researchers to map where the neurons were firing, then yes, this could be possible. But then, who would care? Without our individual set of experiences, we're hardly interesting.
Exactly.