Monday, November 14, 2005

Neuroscientists break code on sight





"We want to know how the brain works to create intelligence," said Poggio, the Eugene McDermott Professor in Brain Sciences and Human Behavior. "Our ability to recognize objects in the visual world is among the most complex problems the brain must solve. Computationally, it is much harder than reasoning." Yet we take it for granted because it appears to happen automatically and almost unconsciously.

(Via KurzweilAI.net.)


This is leading slowly but inexorably to one of my favorite science fiction gadgets -- an iPod-like portable dream recorder.

4 comments:

Mac said...

If memory serves, my second PB post (in Jan. 2003) was about this same sort of thing.

To the archives!

Anonymous said...

A dream recorder is featured beautifully in _Until the End of World_. One of my favorite films.

Mac said...

A dream recorder is featured beautifully in _Until the End of World_. One of my favorite films.

Mine too.

Kyle said...

My personal favorite film of the genre (or pretty close) would have to be "Brainstorm". The story was a little ahead of its time, though. Imagine if people's recorded dreams and experiences could be shared via p2p software...the guy with the "id-pod" sitting next to you could be "living" YOUR life...weird... :)

Kyle
UFPreflections.blogspot.com