Mind Reading Machine Knows What You See – as reported by the NewScientist.com (see the original article below) it is possible to read someone's mind by remotely measuring their brain activity. The technique can even extract information from subjects that they are not aware of themselves. So far, it has been used only to identify visual patterns a subject can see or has chosen to focus on.
One group of scientists have shown patterns or parallel lines in one of eight orientations to four volunteers. By focusing on brain regions involved in visual perception and measuring the changes by using functional MRI (fMRI) scanning, they were able to determine which orientation of lines the subjects were observing. Each produced different fMRI image, although the patterns were different in each person.
In a separate study (see below) two different patterns of lines were shown in a quick succession in just 15 milliseconds each - too quick to be consciously perceived by a viewer, but fMRI image of the brain showed which image was flashed. The information was perceived in the brain even though volunteers were not consciously aware of it.
One's consciousness is not one's brain, but it is contained in one's C-body made of C-energy Units. Brain is just hardware in human body to process thoughts and signals for the physical world which must be linearized. The processing of a C-body signal or thought via brain takes time while it is instant via C-body, C-energy and C-energy Units of any kind.
When an image of parallel lines is shown to a person his or her C-body sees it instantly and creates image-thought (C-energy) reaction to it instantly. The Ego Mind which is the processing mind of physical world and operating in parallel with the physical brain when one is awake operates slower because of need to linearize signals.
The image of the parallel lines seen by C-body or Higher Mind instantly effects the C-energy and T-energy Units existing behind the brain cells which in turn creates instant reaction in fMRI images (strong magnetic fields above 1 Tesla will react with C and T-energy Units nearly instantly) or certainly much sooner-quicker than the Ego Mind associated with the brain processing of the volunteers could. Again the requirement of linearization of C-body signals via our brain as a processor of such information for our physical body and life slows the processing of the signal down.
It is interesting to note that the patters of the same set of parallel lines as seen by different persons were different. Image of the same parallel lines is a thought (configured C-energy) and the strength of such thought in a person even though it is of the same image depends on the strength of C-energy signal produced by each person's C-body and such varies depending on the kind of C-energy Units one's C-body is made of, how many C-energy Units it is made of and on the overall Group C-energy Frequency (GCF) of that person's C-body, plus processing of the same via physical brain can vary.
No two C-bodies of any two humans in the world have the same GCF, thus signals of the same image as picked up by fMRI via different persons will vary.
Mind-reading Machine Knows What You See
- 15:26 25 April 2005
- NewScientist.com news service
It is possible to read someone’s mind by remotely measuring their brain activity, researchers have shown. The technique can even extract information from subjects that they are not aware of themselves.So far, it has only been used to identify visual patterns a subject can see or has chosen to focus on. But the researchers speculate the approach might be extended to probe a person’s awareness, focus of attention, memory and movement intention. In the meantime, it could help doctors work out if patients apparently in a coma are actually conscious.Scientists have already trained monkeys to move a robotic arm with the power of thought and to recreate scenes moving in front of cats by recording information directly from the feline’s neurons (New Scientist print edition, 2 October 1999). But these processes involve implanting electrodes into their brains to hook them up to a computer.Now Yukiyasu Kamitani, at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, and Frank Tong at Princeton University in New Jersey, US, have achieved similar “mind reading” feats remotely using functional MRI scanning.
Between the lines
The pair showed patterns of parallel lines in 1 of 8 orientations to four volunteers. By focussing on brain regions involved in visual perception they were able to recognise which orientation the subjects were observing. Each line orientation corresponded to a different pattern of brain activity, although the patterns were different in each person. What is more, when two sets of lines were superimposed and the subjects were asked to focus on one set, the researchers could work out which one they were thinking of from the brain images.In a separate study, also published in Nature Neuroscience, John-Dylan Haynes and Geraint Rees at University College London, UK, showed two patterns in quick succession to 6 volunteers. The first appeared for just 15 milliseconds - too quick to be consciously perceived by the viewer. But by viewing fMRI images of the brain, the researchers were able to say which image had been flashed in front of the subjects. The information was perceived in the brain even if the volunteers were not consciously aware of it.The study probed the part of the visual cortex that detects a visual stimulus, but does not perceive it. “It encodes what we don’t see,” Haynes says. He thinks that, further along the visual pathway, brain regions consciously take note that there has been a stimulus. But this does not happen for the “invisible” stimulus.
Consciousness kicks in
By understanding the perception pathway and working out the point at which consciousness kicks in, patient consciousness could be diagnosed. This would mean the setup could be used as a “consciousness-meter,” says Haynes; “a device that allows us to assess whether a patient is consciously perceiving his or her outside environment.” Yang Dan, a neurobiologist at the University of California in Berkeley, agrees this would be possible. But she cautions that there is little agreement over what consciousness actually is.More subtle forms of mind-reading such as working out intentions or beliefs are much more speculative, she argues. Even if such subtle information could be gleaned from brain scans both studies suggest the patterns are unique to individuals. And using the technique as an alternative to the polygraph would be very risky, says Dan. “The relationship between brain patterns and lies may be very loose.”
Journal reference: Nature Neuroscience (DOI: 10.1038/nn1445 and 10.1038/nn1444)
