Re:MRI Scans of a person's brain
by daveguy on Sunday January 24, 2016 @12:09AM
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As kendallpark pointed out this is highly unlikely. I upvoted you because it's an interesting "hmmm... what would it take?" The spatial resolution of an fMRI is high compared to something like EEG, but the time resolution is much slower. Even the spatial resolution is on the order of cubic mm at the absolute best. So, we are no where close to being able to scan the activity of every one of the ~100 billion neurons in a human brain and it would 7+ orders of magnitude better spatial recognition and associated processing capabilities. So, the magnitude of your "if" is large enough that it's on the level of Kurzweil Crazy, but cool to think about regardless.
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I know nothing about neurology, but my money would be on using a different mechanism to extract all the data, maybe something like fake neurons that dump all the information via WiFi, a MITM attack for the brain itself if you like.
Re:MRI Scans of a person's brain
by HappyTypist on Sunday January 24, 2016 @04:18AM
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With our current understanding, such tasks are comparable to trying to break the speed of light. However, we could probably get incredibly close without any internal data extraction. Our personalities, while highly complex, can be approximated into some simple traits (e.g. 74%
'passive-aggressive', 47% empathy) and replication of our knowledge isn't strictly necessary. Find 10,000 interests and create a int_8 each of how much someone is into it. Et cetra.