Hi Roger,

It is indeed hard to believe. Glad you enjoyed it!

Best,
Telmo.


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote:

>  Hi Telmo Menezes
>
> Thank you so much ! What an achievement !
> Hard to believe.
>
>
> [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] <rclo...@verizon.net]>
> 12/18/2012
> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
>
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>   Hi Roger,
>
> Here it is:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nsjDnYxJ0bo
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Telmo Menezes
>> �
>> It would be good if they showed a video clip.
>>  �
>> �
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>> 12/17/2012
>> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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>>  Hi again Roger,
>>
>> It's a bit better than that. A machine learning algorithm is trained to
>> decode neural activation signals. The training is performed by showing the
>> subject known images, and letting the algorithm learn how their neural
>> activity maps to these images.
>>
>> The real magic happens when you show them new stuff, that the algorithm
>> wasn't trained for. To me, the most impressive stuff here is when it fails.
>> If you pay attention to the videos, you will see the algorithm decoding
>> different (but similar images) from what the one being shown to the
>> subject. For example, when faces are shown, different faces are decoded and
>> then start correcting. My speculation is that we are actually seing visual
>> memories conjured by the brain in its pattern matching attempts. My
>> favorite is the ink blot exploding, where you can see the brain
>> anticipating the explosion, so you get to see a visual of the subject
>> imagining a likely future state.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Telmo Menezes
>>>
>>> I think that is a misleading article. If it's fMRI, you
>>> don't see the riginal video clip as an eye would see it,
>>> you see an image of brain activity.
>>>
>>>
>>> [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
>>> 12/17/2012
>>> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My
>>> memory is the identity of my 1p and is what my 1p sees.
>>>
>>> This is perhaps the most serioous problem of comp.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Frankly .... I can understand people not convinced that a computer can
>>> have a quale associated to the memory, but memory and personal memory does
>>> not pose any problem in computers. Then I have explained why they have a
>>> quale too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is not even theoretical anymore. Here's a rather compelling example
>>> of visual information in human brains being uploaded into a computer:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity
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