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The Movement to Protect Your Mind From Brain-Computer Technologies
Gizmodo ^ | Natalie Zarrelli

Posted on 06/01/2021 9:14:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Recording memories, reading thoughts, and manipulating what another person sees through a device in their brain may seem like science fiction...But a team of multi-disciplinary researchers say the first steps to inventing these technologies have already arrived...they want to put in place safeguards...

Since brain data can now be tracked remotely and Elon Musk is forging ahead with Neuralink brain implants, it’s not so much fiction as it is fledgeling technology.

One such project...aimed to understand how groups of neurons work together in the visual cortex of the brain, but it incidentally let scientists alter the perception of mice, making them see things that were not actually there. After tracking which neurons were activated when the mice saw vertical bars on a screen, scientists could trigger just those neurons—and the mice, which had been trained to lick a water spout when they saw the bars, displayed the same behavior when the neurons were triggered.

Jack Gallant and his team developed a side project to better understand the human visual system, they ended up creating some of the groundwork for “reading” or “decoding” some types of thoughts, such as mental images, using fMRI and an algorithm. In one of their many experiments, human participants watched short silent films while scientists monitored an area of their visual cortices. The information was handed over to an AI that was trained on YouTube videos but not the participants’ films. From the data retrieved from brain scans, the AI pieced together and reproduced the general scenes that participants saw. While the reproductions were far from perfect, they represented a first step in decoding information from a human mind.

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1 posted on 06/01/2021 9:14:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: All

I’m ahead of the curve with my tin foil hat. And to think there were people on THIS FORUM who ridiculed me. Ha! Vindication at last.


2 posted on 06/01/2021 9:19:06 AM PDT by BipolarBob (This is my chainsaw. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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To: BipolarBob

We joke but I hope someone makes some kind of firewall!


3 posted on 06/01/2021 10:01:02 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: BenLurkin

Another way for control freaks to control. Fabulous.


4 posted on 06/01/2021 10:18:55 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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