From: Clint O'Dell (clintodell@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 11:43:40 MDT
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>Unfortunately, this is not necessarily true. If I see a complex
>pattern of activity in your brain, I cannot tell if it is you thinking of
>strawberries or killing me, despite the orderliness of the long-range
>connections. What individual neurons represent is likely highly variable,
>and hence a pattern of activity that might in one brain correspond to
>murder would in another be strawberries.
Instead, I propose studying the relationship between hearing and the brain.
Hearing is obviosly attached to echoic memory. Because we think thoughts in
a language, aren't we sort of hearing them? We could read minds by finding
this relationship.
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