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by mandolingual 104 days ago
And computers used to fill a room and require stacks of punch cards to use.
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in both cases: physics decides what's possible
Well, well, then I have a paper for you (2014); https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscie...

You might be interested in author #7. Some guy named Dario something.

That is indeed a paper lol.

But in seriousness: not news and doesn’t change any of what I said. You have a class of 20 objects that they recall as they dream. Same setup (fMRI), small n, very very simplified design.

Look the reason we can’t do this is both physics AND information theoretic. You are getting in the best case an EXTREMELY reduced dimensionality, it’s not as though this is an early days of AI thing where it’s like “it’s not possible today but there’s nothing in principle stopping us from a Kurzweil like world”. It’s just not really possible.

Anyway the studies on this are restricted to specific neuroscience questions. Paper shows dreams contain object-like representations in the visual cortex — this is cool! And important! But it doesn’t imply anything for decoding thoughts and dreams.