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Originally posted by MemoryShockand even then I could only get literal thoughts.......nothing on the level of many subconscious motivators and associations........
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
I have a few questions:
1. I presume that if I am thinking in English, it transmit my thoughts in English? What if I am thinking in German or Arabic; what then? Does it read minds AND translate?
2. How does it know my voice? IF I imagine myself talking in a clown voice, will it broadcast my thoughts in a teeny tiny clown-voice???
3. What if I am not "thinking in words?" I am currently working on the process of "not-being" described in the mystical text called "The cloud of un-knowing," and found within some schools of yoga. If I am not using words in an internal dialogue, then what will the macine pick up?
4. "Brain waves" is a term people use to describe the electromagnetic waves given off by the brain. Of course you know that consciousness does not consist purely of electrical activity; as someone else pointed out, the "waves" given off by the brain are in microvolts, and are "averaged" from different parts of the brain on an EEG. Unless of course you are attaching electrodes below the pia mater, directly into the cortex . . . Otherwise, how can you read milivolt signals without a faraday cage? Surely your machine produces enough electromagnetic radiation to drown out all brain signals in the room. Heck, the flourescent lights are putting out 60Hz, and destroying most of your input, aren't they?
5. Why are you posting this here? Surely you expect the NWO to come and snatch your invention and lock you away in Gitmo where scantily-clad stewardesses will interrogate you forever . . . hmmm . . . can I have one, too?
Originally posted by Caldron of Hate
Adding to that. The particles/chemicals/other/ transmitted by thought would be so cryptic that it could only signal emotions. The receiver would have to pick up on differ areas of the brain. Processing happens in all parts of the brain and is conglomerated into language which would be tough to pick up on. How does it pick up this info, Samuel? Does it listen to the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe?
Lobes of the human brain (Frontal Lobe is shown in red)
[edit on 18-2-2005 by Caldron of Hate]
such as funding for the machine
Originally posted by iori_komei
such as funding for the machine
Well that just made me more skeptical of this machine actualy existing.