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Is it possible to read someone's mind?

Richard Norman rsnorman at mediaone.net
Sun May 6 08:55:00 EST 2001


If "reading someone's mind" means I am in the process of
(or planning on) making this muscle move by this much,
then yes.  Essentially you read the motor signals and
create artificial "muscles" execute the command.  So I can
shrug my shoulder or wink my eye to control external
equipment (it actually is more subtle than that.)

But if you want to know just why I feel like winking my eye
or whether I am happy or angry about the fact that I have
to shrug my shoulder -- that is rather a different story.  And
all the while, I am daydreaming about what is going to happen
to me and whether I really remembered to turn off the coffee
maker and it suddenly occurred to me that I forgot to pay the
electric bill and I really am worried about how my career is
going, not to mention how my teenage kids are developing
--- no, probably never.

""Ron Blue"" <rcb5 at msn.com> wrote in message
news:002601c0d5e4$ea10c040$2e1d183f at pavilion...
> The Air Force has a procedure that allows pilots to control their aircraft
> by thoughts and it is 98% accurate.  This is close to what you are asking.
>
> Ron
> http://turn.to/ai
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Leonard" <remove_for_spam_johnrleonard at excite.com>
> To: <neur-sci at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 7:51 PM
> Subject: Is it possible to read someone's mind?
>
>
> > Given the current state of the science, is it possible to attach
> electrodes
> > to someones brain and read their thoughts? If it is not, then, what is
> your
> > projection for the time at which it will be possible?
> >
> >
>
> ---





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