UC Berkeley Reads People’s Minds

September 23, 2011 • 12:29 pm • POSTED BY Tammo Walter

Scientist from the University of California Berkeley developed a system that captures someone’s brain activity and reassembles it to video data.

In the video below you can see on the left hand side what the test person watched. The video on the right was reconstructed purely based on the measured brain activity. Obviously it has ways to go until you’d be able to clearly see what someone else saw or thought about but it’s a pretty radical breakthrough in regards to reading someone’s mind eventually. Good or bad? Probably both.