@@Artaxerxes. its a common joke to call people who think very slowly a "potato" because potatoes can not think. Its used for very slow computers as well.
Funny how that is an actual sentence, from who knows how long ago.. Probably back when we wore "Night-caps" too. But to think, where'd that come from? There's never been any Hats, or Caps, or Helmets, that has ever been anything like what we have today, with this thing, or nurallink.. Yet that "concept", that "idea" of a "Thinking Cap". has been around for a loong time.
@@StanHowse Thinking caps can be traced back to Dunce Caps. Contrary to popular understanding, it was not a punishment but rather a genuine tool with no shame to the wearer. (at least in the beginning) It was created by a Franciscan teacher named Dunce. He tried methods to help students who struggled to pay attention, many I presume ADHD considering its pervasiveness. Dunce found that students who could not read normally were helped if he made them focus on a singular point above the horizon of their field of view. While fixated, dyslexic students could magically start reading if they focused on the point above their head that they could not see. The Dunce Cap's pointy top was something you could shift your mind's eye's focus too, your peripheral opening. Im not describing it well, this article clearly illustrates the phenomenon: spdrdng.com/posts/speed-reading-technique-10-take-awareness-concentration-point As I'm aware, this was the first type of caps for thinking, thinking caps. It is believed it was used before Dunce's creation, people using it for meditation. It is theorized that the Witch's hat is pointy for the same effect, superior focus while performing pagan practices.
@@jackbradley4737 Always someone like you on here. Went ahead and searched the definition of paradox, which involves a seemingly “self contradictory statement or idea”, with a contradiction being an idea that is opposite of another. Being more prone to laughter while trying to not laugh in fact does seem to be a contradictory set of actions, and can thus be viewed as a paradox.
@@triton62674 I think people are more talking about the scan itself. Would have been cool to get insight about why specific regions were lighting up as they were
@@MixMastaCopyCat Yeah, it's interesting and kind of strange that regions with more activity reflect/emit more photons back, that could use an explanation
@@yepyepyep170 totally, yeah. Just as a means of saving time thats so valueable. Everything that can possibly be done on transport should be done on transport imo. The entire diagnosis ideally. Also i feel stuff like this is perfect when looking at traumatic brain injuries outside of an hospital.
I have a brother that is a pretty big opiate addict, and everything I’ve researched says that the receptors in the brain go absolutely crazy when they are both high and also in withdrawals. It would definitely be amazing to see how it changes in real time from the time that person gets high, to the time they’re in a bad withdrawal from the drug. I bet it would be quite the light show. Just a thought. It would probably show the brain firing on both ends of the spectrum. On the other end of things, I think having this in a hospital or emergency room setting would be or could be extremely useful in so many ways. Really enjoyed this and it wasn’t at all what I’d expected it to be.
Can we use this technology to hook up one person's mind/brain to another's? I would be curious just to see what happens, what is possible. My next question is: hook up a living person's brain to a dying person's brain to see if any sign of an afterlife can be detected or observed by the living person. Of course, both would give their consent for this experiment.
@@TheDankFarmer I did see that, it is pretty crazy. This type of technology is the precursor to technology that will help us figure out our own consciousness
IMAGINE studying the difference in brain activity of people that are meditating, dying, tripping, sleeping, etc, and all in their most comfortable settings. The possibilities are endless
I love how when he gave the last joke which didn’t make sense at all, Lex’s brain when everywhere trying to find an explanation to the joke. You can see the brain say wtf?
Then: “to name a thing is to have complete control over it” Now: “to blast a thing with 52 lasers and upload the readings to a digital schematic instantly is to have complete control over it”
It's breath-taking. I swear, so many people fail to just sit back in awe at this accomplishment. Hundred's of thousands of years, and we have come so far... Just a century ago, computers did not exist, but here we are in present day with this hell-of-a device. We are all going to see magic within the next 50 years
As a Kid I had Several times received hard hits to the head. ( at 3 or 4 years old I fell out of a tree [ about 8 to 10 feet ] and landed on my head. I thought I split my head wide open it hurt so bad. That would have been around 1967 or 68. Then when I was around 5 or 6 or 7 I was hit in the head with a Baseball bat from the back side playing back yard baseball. I saw stars and of course it hurt. in 3rd grade I was hit in the face in the nose really with a hand sized rock ( blood everywhere ). Then in 4th grade I fell 15 feet from a hayloft and landed on the concrete floor hands and head first. I was knocked unconscious for 30 seconds at least to maybe a minute and broke both bones in each wrist. I have issues learning with short term memory. Reading a book takes me forever as I have to often read the same page several times for the information to even click BUT then once I remember the information I usually retain the information for a long time Some people say How can you remember that instance from so long ago ? I CAN remember things long term ONCE the information is forced into my brain. In high school I graduated in the Top 1% of the Bottom 10% of my graduating class. lol True Story though. ***QUESTION*** Would this instrument show if people have any brain damage ??? Is there a test that can show Brain damage and ways to improve memory . I know there is NEW or NEWER information on repairing brain cells or actually creating NEW brain cells. I WOULD LOVE TO BE A TEST PERSON IN THOSE STUDIES.
This is really interesting. This is only a hypothesis, but I would imagine the answrr to your question is yes. From my limited understanding, memories work through electro-chemical synapses. This device may be able to monitor the activation activity in the relevent parts of the brain. If they observe unusually low activation for any given stimuli, then it may be infered that your brain was damaged. Side note, please wear a helmet my friend lol.
I find myself buying a kernel flow over a neuralink N1, because of multiple reasons : - it's cheaper than the N1 - the flow looks like its out of a sci-fi movie - it doesn't require brain surgery because it's a wearable - it can produce data like the N1 with similar accuracy Looking forward to it.
seeing the frontal cortex light up before laughing for a joke is so fascinating. you can see the brain activation while understanding the joke and the social responce of laughter when the joke has been elaborated by the rest of the cortex. just stuning
Been watching your videos for a while now, just want to say thank you for having educational guests on the podcast, a lot of videos has helped me as a person, keep it up 🙌🏾
I think that's part of the test. When you try not to laugh, you head kind of hurts, right? The brain activity used to suppress your urge to laugh is probably what they were trying to measure.
@@CrackheadMagician911 huh? I’m not following… It just would have made more sense for the guy to not tell him that he’s not supposed to laugh because if he knows he’s not supposed to laugh then it’ll be harder for him to not laugh. I thought my comment was pretty self-explanatory.
I want to wear this at work. Im a line cook and there's so much going through my head at work. I would love to see the data on people in different work environments.
I am quite intrigued by Lex's response to wearing the helmet and feeling genuinely heard, followed by a concern for how fricken awesome it felt to be heard. I kinda want to give his heart a hug.
What I gathered from a few seconds Middle cortex constructive thinking Top cortex question Back cortex input listening dual reaction with the Frontal cortex attentive
@@mchlsull I suppose that depends on the nature of the interfacing it's doing..Whether it's reading patterns in your brain and translating it to notes etc or straight up seeing/hearing what you're seeing/hearing by tapping into your own brains interface with where your thoughts are fed into your thinker lol..how exactly it would do that I don't even have a theory at the moment personally lol perhaps first locating where the thoughts start, or reverse engineer to see the flow of activity in the brain, idk for real
Can one say what brain activities seen here relates to thinking? This must be a wild mixture from thinking, sensoring (optical, acoustic, touch...), muscle movement (quite a lot of them).
This isn't a brain-computer interface, this is just a realtime brain scanning device. It might be possible to utilize for a brain-computer interface, but right now it's just a scanner, you can't really call it a brain-computer interface in it's current state. There's no interfacing here... It appears it would have more uses in a hospital than anywhere else. Not saying it isn't cool, not saying it isn't technology with huge potential, but it's just not a brain computer interface.
If it is measuring blood activation, I think it is more likely that it is picking up surface muscle blood flow as he uses his facial expressions, you can clearly see small reactions after each joke and and while he talks and while he smiles and while he purses his lips. The whole head moves in those cases, even if ever so slightly. Which would change blood flow.
It is not accurately listening to the neurons firing in your heart. Thousands of years from now, this might be viewed as a great moment in DEVOLUTION. With the brain, you get what you want, and its polar opposite, but the heart is based on rhythm, not duality. "...and the beat goes on, just like my love. Everlasting." -The Whispers
in the far future, we will have devices like this that can upload a 5 year university degree into your brain just in minutes. This is not a joke it will happen 100%.
I genuinely don't understand why they have all the electronics on the head. Isn't IR just light? You can take and get all your light and into and from your head through optical fibers?! Why not have everything i.e. on your back instead?
