Posted: Aug 20, 2014 4:31 am
Macdoc wrote:Within the experience of one subject the neurons that were there may not be an hour from now and the synaptic strengths as well as many other physiological measures, so neurons and surrounding glia and interstices ALWAYS change, particularly in the area that the experience activates. So it's not quite doable even for an individual.
I suggest you are incorrect....a Bayesian comparator in the brain will bring up very related clusters depending on similarity.
Just as I type tree into a database and get a lot or oak tree and get less or oak tree and swing ....etc down the line.
A cross reference with say falling off a swing on an oaktree may call on some trauma storage and so activate a companion set which in that case may offer a strong signal.
I don't think mind reading is possible - but some image induction maybe even some form of induced synaethesia might be.
That brings up the potential for combining with a movie for additional senses to be triggered.
Very related but never exactly the same. I am right because brains change continually throughout life. It is astronomically improbable for the same exact response to ever occur twice.
The best that we ever get is a statistical clustering. Now that's measurable and yes you are right that we can read that. So ALL I said is that is a statistic not a fixed response.