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	<title>Comments on: How Did Researchers Manage to Read Movie Clips From the Brain?</title>
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		<title>By: Vasanth BR</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vasanth BR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since the raw brain and the nature of its raw functioning are transparent to race, culture and language variations, once the scientists are able to refine their reverse dictionaries from brain activity to visual image, the same dictionary will work for all persons speaking all different languages. 

However a rider. 

When I see on a screen, a peacock with a spread out white feathers, I not only see the white peacock but also concurrently think in English (say), “That is nice; but, I have not seen a white peacock in any nature park!” If a Spaniard sees the screen, he may think “Eso es agradable; ¡pero, no he visto un pavo real blanco en ningún parque de naturaleza!” How much does the language dependent thinking impact on the pattern of visual brain activity? Hopefully, within a couple of years (has it already been done?) when the thoughts in specific languages can be decoded and input into a loudspeaker, we can not only see what a person sees, but also hear what a person thinks. 

Next is raw primordial emotion, not resting on words of the language. Capture it and along with images and words, input them into another brain.

Within a decade or two, there will be a need for only one person to experience an event; like climbing Mt Everest, starting from leaving the base camp to the 3 cheers after returning to the base camp. All that is required is to capture and record all the sensory inputs into his brain, along their channels and plug on the recording directly into appropriate locations of the brain of the recipient. The recipient will not be able to distinguish between whether he actually climbed Everest or it was a synthesised input. While the swerves and slips impacting the balancing muscles can be recorded (as they are felt in the brain) and transferred, can the tiredness and fatigue be recorded and transferred? When the climber’s leg muscle gets tired, even though the tiredness is actually felt in the brain, in addition, the leg muscle is physiologically altered. Is it adequate if only the tiredness signal to the brain is transferred to the recipient, without physiologically actually altering his leg muscle?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since the raw brain and the nature of its raw functioning are transparent to race, culture and language variations, once the scientists are able to refine their reverse dictionaries from brain activity to visual image, the same dictionary will work for all persons speaking all different languages. </p>
<p>However a rider. </p>
<p>When I see on a screen, a peacock with a spread out white feathers, I not only see the white peacock but also concurrently think in English (say), “That is nice; but, I have not seen a white peacock in any nature park!” If a Spaniard sees the screen, he may think “Eso es agradable; ¡pero, no he visto un pavo real blanco en ningún parque de naturaleza!” How much does the language dependent thinking impact on the pattern of visual brain activity? Hopefully, within a couple of years (has it already been done?) when the thoughts in specific languages can be decoded and input into a loudspeaker, we can not only see what a person sees, but also hear what a person thinks. </p>
<p>Next is raw primordial emotion, not resting on words of the language. Capture it and along with images and words, input them into another brain.</p>
<p>Within a decade or two, there will be a need for only one person to experience an event; like climbing Mt Everest, starting from leaving the base camp to the 3 cheers after returning to the base camp. All that is required is to capture and record all the sensory inputs into his brain, along their channels and plug on the recording directly into appropriate locations of the brain of the recipient. The recipient will not be able to distinguish between whether he actually climbed Everest or it was a synthesised input. While the swerves and slips impacting the balancing muscles can be recorded (as they are felt in the brain) and transferred, can the tiredness and fatigue be recorded and transferred? When the climber’s leg muscle gets tired, even though the tiredness is actually felt in the brain, in addition, the leg muscle is physiologically altered. Is it adequate if only the tiredness signal to the brain is transferred to the recipient, without physiologically actually altering his leg muscle?</p>
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		<title>By: Nestor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nestor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jen, the model reconstructs what it thinks the person is seeing from a library of youtube videos so my guess is that those letters are part of those videos that get carried along, a bit like those ransom notes make out of newspaper clippings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jen, the model reconstructs what it thinks the person is seeing from a library of youtube videos so my guess is that those letters are part of those videos that get carried along, a bit like those ransom notes make out of newspaper clippings.</p>
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		<title>By: Jen Hawse</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/09/28/how-did-researchers-manage-to-read-movie-clips-from-the-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-1954595</link>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hawse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t understand the words that scroll in the videos. Why are they there, what do they represent, is it the brain seeing these words or the models? One says something like, &quot;u gatta...&quot; another refers to the &quot;king&quot; another is in French saying, &quot;tout ce que je...&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t understand the words that scroll in the videos. Why are they there, what do they represent, is it the brain seeing these words or the models? One says something like, &#8220;u gatta&#8230;&#8221; another refers to the &#8220;king&#8221; another is in French saying, &#8220;tout ce que je&#8230;&#8221;.</p>
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