“Brain Reading” Computer Can See What You See

The journal Nature, is reporting that “scientists have developed a way of ‘decoding’ someone’s brain activity to determine what they are looking at.” From the article:

“The problem is analogous to the classic ‘pick a card, any card’ magic trick,” says Jack Gallant, a neuroscientist at the University of California in Berkeley, who led the study. But while a magician uses a ploy to pretend to ‘read the mind’ of the subject staring at a card, now researchers can do it for real using brain-scanning instruments. “When the deck of cards, or photographs, has about 120 images, we can do better than 90% correct,” says Gallant.

You ever notice that when someone tries to explain something through an analogy, they end up making it more confusing? Researchers believe that this will open the door to all kinds of sci-fi style shit like being able to watch people’s dreams and whatnot. But that’s a long way away. First, they’re going to have to figure out how dreams work in the first place. According to study team member Kendrick Kay, of the California University, Berkeley:

“Perhaps the contents of our imaginations are not represented in the same way as the contents of our actual real perceptions.”

Perhaps…uh…not? All I know is, being able to watch people’s dreams on cable TV is the next step in reality television. You heard it here.

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