Science decodes 'internal voices'

[Helpful Corn]

Thought crime rises twelve million percent in 2012, next on NWO news at ten.

 

[Gahars]

What happens if they find multiple voices?

 

[Bladexdsl]

fuck wheres my tin foil hat aw shit it has a hole it in anyone got some tape or gum?!

 

[notmeanymore]

Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.

The method may in future help comatose and locked-in patients communicate.

Several approaches have in recent years suggested that scientists are closing in on methods to tap into our very thoughts; the current study achieved its result by implanting electrodes directly into a part of participants' brains.

Hello future, we've been waiting.

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wow, this is the first step towards telepathy! EXCITING TIMES
but I don't want people reading my mind as I think wouldn't want anyone to find out I'm a perv deep down or something

Soon we'll start seeing people wearing metal helmets to prevent their brain waves from being read

I'd be arrested. Quickly.

 

[sputnix]

I see this being used in the military to get info from people, NOW WITHOUT WATERBOARDING

 

[Rife]

wow, this is the first step towards telepathy! EXCITING TIMES
but I don't want people reading my mind as I think wouldn't want anyone to find out I'm a perv deep down or something

If people start reading minds we'll find out how much of a perv EVERYBODY is.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

I see this being used in the military to get info from people, NOW WITHOUT WATERBOARDING

Nah, they'll keep the waterboarding for the sheer fun of it.

 

[stinkoman]

What happens if they find multiple voices?

I think almost entirely in novel style narration, so this could be interesting.

 

[elgarta]

Pair this up with the proposed piracy laws and it'll be quite fun

"That one over there, he is thinking about what commercial roms to put onto his flash card. Get him!"

 

[DeMoN]

Reminds me of Minority Report. Let's hope this is never used for the same purposes.

 

[triassic911]

Haha people will have to be careful about what they think!

 

[Saddamsdevil]

I for one welcome this change. I can't wait for human beings to be fair to themselves and each other in the future.

 

[ferofax]

NEWSFLASH


Surprising fact shocks the psychiatric world -- Women are just as prone to thinking perverted thoughts as men. Studies show that...

 

[FireGrey]

Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.

The method may in future help comatose and locked-in patients communicate.

Several approaches have in recent years suggested that scientists are closing in on methods to tap into our very thoughts; the current study achieved its result by implanting electrodes directly into a part of participants' brains.

Hello future, we've been waiting.

SOURCE

wow, this is the first step towards telepathy! EXCITING TIMES
but I don't want people reading my mind as I think wouldn't want anyone to find out I'm a perv deep down or something

Soon we'll start seeing people wearing metal helmets to prevent their brain waves from being read

I think it could be a fashion statement to wear tinfoil caps and take it off occasionally to have conversations to people.
Whenever someone would read my mind I would feel like im under pressure and think of everything not to think.
Imagine being in an interview and they're reading you mind and find out you're dying inside.

 

[Veho]

That's why I always play songs by [insert unloved author here] in my head, so that anyone listening to my thoughts would have no incentive to stick around.

 

[FAST6191]

On the bright side, at least that world will never come to be since this requires implants of some sort.
For now anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhggGSjXVg

 

[Cyan]

When I read the first post, I thought about universal translators, sending idea of the sentence to a receiver implanted into another person's brain.
That would be a form of assisted telepathy or direct-translation of oral communication.

But it's for the moment only reconstructing the sound that you want to speak, not the word or the idea you want to communicate?

 

[Ultymoo]

Hello, tin foil skullcap. This is great for the comatose and all, but it will get into the wrong hands (i.e. not hospitals/care institutions) and be abused.