Paralysed man's mind is 'read'

[Atomic_Piggy]

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7094526.stm

Interesting, no?

 

[Darkside55]

Interesting stuff. I'd like to see how this develops.

 

[Krynn72]

Would have been interesting if they read his mind

 

[Shift]

Very cool.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

"What'sa cripple gotta do to get some head around here? BLOW ME!"

 

[Cpt Tenacious]

hah!

hes probably thinking "KILL ME!!!"

 

[CyberPitz]

I can see something going wrong..!

"How are you feeling today, sir?"
"I would like to see my wife please."
"OK.."*brings wife in*
"Hey honey....*static for a second* I WANNA **** A DOG!"

 

[Druckles]

Sounds deep.

But yeah... reading thoughts ain't so good.

Been considering this. Wouldn't really work. Much too dangerous. Especially when wireless becomes involved.

 

[Cheomesh]

hes probably thinking "KILL ME!!!"

I question the ethics behind NOT.

 

[Irksome]

I question the ethics behind NOT.

Behind not killing him?

 

[Cheomesh]

Behind not killing him?

Yeah. They're keeping someone alive who can't do anything at all for himself.

 

[sinkoman]

Yeah. They're keeping someone alive who can't do anything at all for himself.

that doesn't mean that he wants to die :|

 

[Cheomesh]

that doesn't mean that he wants to die :|

True enough. I don't understand how someone in that state would DESIRE to live, though. He cannot move. Cannot speak. He's just there.

Thank the gods that we still have empathy and are not purely scientific and logical about everything :|

 

[sinkoman]

True enough. I don't understand how someone in that state would DESIRE to live, though. He cannot move. Cannot speak. He's just there.

Thank the gods that we still have empathy and are not purely scientific and logical about everything :|

What is and isn't empathetic is highly subjective, it's the reason laws usually end up being created based on logic as opposed to empathy.

 

[Pesmerga]

This is fairly old news. They use reactions of the brain to send information to a computer, which generates words and sentences much like an autocomplete function on a cell phone.

The program gives the user a list of choices. The user reacts differently to each choice, generally sending out a different signal for a "good" choice. This signal is detected, the choice selected, and the software carries on.

It's a tedious process, though, but advanced programming can probably "learn" from the user by storing the user's style of speech and predicting it in the future.

 

[Cheomesh]

What is and isn't empathetic is highly subjective, it's the reason laws usually end up being created based on logic as opposed to empathy.

Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no.

 

[Pesmerga]

Bills are passed because of a majority support for a political agenda.

You can certainly say that the patient has little desire to live, but you could be wrong. Infact, there's a great chance that any human being desires life so long as that life is fulfilling, which science may be able to do for him. To generalize that paralyze victims have little desire to live is as if to say... pot smokers have little desire to live.

The subject at hand, though, focuses more on technological implications rather than moral dilemmas. As I said before, old news.

 

[Druckles]

I believe the company I'm working for has delved somewhat into this subject. But I'm not too sure about how far. I know there's a video demonstrating its use, and appears to work quite well, spelling out letters (quite slowly) from someone wearing a headset.

Not sure how real it is though...

 

[Cheomesh]

I would like to see where this is going, though.

 

[Druckles]

News update. Device has been created by my company that can read minds up to a degree. It allows the wearer of a headset to select an option from a matrix.

That's all I know, and most likely, any further information is confidential.