A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, A Moving Picture Is Worth More

[thesometimesaint]

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/berkeley-researchers-turn-brain-waves-into-videos.php?ref=fpb

[blackstrap]

Looks to me that if they didn't know what the image was,they wouldn't know what the image was.

[Questing Beast]

Whoa! Wouldn't most of us be extremely reluctant to have anyone poking their noses inside our brain's imagery? I know I would. A great deal of my idle thinking is not for public consumption!...

[LeSellers]

It seems these two have a lot in common.

Of course, phronology was the "science" on which Horace Mann based his plan for governemnt-run, tax-funded schools in USmerica. So maybe there's some hope for the youth concentration camps after all.

Lehi

[thesometimesaint]

Lehi:

What has that got to do with the subject of this post?

[LeSellers]

What has that got to do with the subject of this post?

There was a subject? I didn't see anything identified as a "subject".

I might ask what the "OP" (since you didn't follow forum guidelines and make a comment yourself to begin with) has to do with LDS discussions and dialogue.

Reading people's brains, whether by cat scan or other electronic devices or by feeling the bumps on one's head is pseudo-science as soon as the "reader starts assigning "meaning" to what he finds. It has a very long history.

Lehi

Edited September 26, 2011 by LeSellers

[David T]

Lehi,

I think in the context of the nature of visions and revelations - especially with Brant Gardner's theory explaining the nature of Joseph Smith's 'Seeing', as a divine deposit of raw data which was then 'visualized' and worked out by the brain - this is absolutely fascinating. Imagine the possibility of recording dreams.

[thesometimesaint]

Lehi:

The brain is a collection of eletrical circuits, and as such can be monitored to see if it functioning, just like the computer you are using right now. It is in theory possible to decode those electrical impulses to make a coherant picture(not much different than a digital movie camera).

I find it fascinating that to a limited extent man is just starting to decode our thoughts. God is supposed to be able to read our thoughts.

Edited September 26, 2011 by thesometimesaint

[cinepro]

Of course, phronology was the "science" on which Horace Mann based his plan for governemnt-run, tax-funded schools in USmerica. So maybe there's some hope for the youth concentration camps after all.

Lehi

Phrenology Among The Mormons

Edited September 26, 2011 by cinepro

[LeSellers]

"Phrenology Among the Mormons"

Are you, or were Bitton and Bunker, implying or asserting that Joseph Smith founded "Mormonism" on phrenology? Because both Mann and his wife, Mary Peabody Mann, made that very statement about his gctf-welfare schools.

Lehi

Edited September 26, 2011 by LeSellers

[Nofear]

The brain is a collection of eletrical circuits, and as such can be monitored to see if it functioning, just like the computer you are using right now. It is in theory possible to decode those electrical impulses to make a coherant picture(not much different than a digital movie camera).

I find it fascinating that to a limited extent man is just starting to decode our thoughts. God is supposed to be able to read our thoughts.

The study would presume a kind of type-identity theory. Despite being a reductive materialist, I'm not particularly persuaded that thought would correspond so (haven't really thought about it enough). Multiple realizability seems to be a real issue and can really throw a monkey-wrench into their program. Nevertheless, I don't begrudge the experimentation at all.