{"id":6429,"date":"2011-10-06T03:46:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2011-10-06T03:46:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:46:48","slug":"the-machines-that-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-machines-that-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"The Machines That We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/nstv\/2011\/09\/mind-reading-movies-reconstruct-what-you-see.html\">Via<\/a> the <em>New Scientist<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Replicant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Replicant-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Replicant\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6430\" \/><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can now experience the world through someone else&#8217;s eyes by tapping into their brain activity. Jack Gallant and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley developed a technique that uses brain scans to reconstruct what a person is seeing. In the video above, it&#8217;s used to recreate film clips that a person is watching.<\/p>\n<p>The team first measured brain activity produced while a person watched hours of movies. They used this data to create a model that can predict the neural activity that would be elicited by any given movie.<\/p>\n<p>Then brain activity was recorded while a volunteer watched a new set of videos and the model was used to select the clips they were most likely viewing. Combining the model&#8217;s best guesses produced a blurry but reasonable approximation of the original clip. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the New Scientist: You can now experience the world through someone else&#8217;s eyes by tapping into their brain activity. Jack Gallant and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley developed a technique that uses brain scans to reconstruct what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-machines-that-we-are\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}