Occasionally, I ponder a machine that is capable of reading all the chaotic thoughts inside my head at any given time. Once the thoughts have been collated, this device should then find a tangible yet beautiful media to output these thoughts in a cohesive manner. The closest that technology has come to doing this so far, that I am aware of, is reconstructing the brains vision. At UC Berkeley, scientists have been using an fMRI system to record the blood flow through their brains’ visual cortex as the user watches youtube videos. Using this data scientist have been able to reconstruct the visuals that the user was being fed.
There are some obvious concerns when it comes to human rights and violation of privacy but thats not what concerns me the most. Once they have invented this mind reader device what if my thoughts output like this:
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Al, your blog is amazing! I have blog envy!
And thoughts on thoughts is interesting because this is also the system I analsyed (during final year at uni) which animal pscychologists are using to determine animal conciousness.
thanks for the kind words! Your degree specialism sounds amazing and your blog is looking pretty awesome too.