Would it be possible...?

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...........if in say so many years with the way technology is advancing do you reckon they could make a headset and TV that could projecct your visions on the screen and sit there watching them back!

dunno why but i reckon it would be pretty cool!
 
We'd have to work out how to correctly map the brain first - which is a huge boundary in itself - but sure, it's not out of the realms of possibility.
 
Well, it would involve understanding how the brain works. So in answer to your question: unlikely

"If the human brain was simple enough to understand, we would not be intelligent enough to understand it"

EDIT: NIX you beat me :(
 
This was done years ago.

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Quite the scam, actually, since viewers believed they were being fed 3-D video, but in reality the unit was scanning their brainwaves and storing them in a central database to be viewed by the main company. I don't know how they got away with it.
 
This was done years ago.

riddlerbox.jpg


Quite the scam, actually, since viewers believed they were being fed 3-D video, but in reality the unit was scanning their brainwaves and storing them in a central database to be viewed by the main company. I don't know how they got away with it.

Hope your taking the ****!
 
This was done years ago.

riddlerbox.jpg


Quite the scam, actually, since viewers believed they were being fed 3-D video, but in reality the unit was scanning their brainwaves and storing them in a central database to be viewed by the main company. I don't know how they got away with it.

Not many people watched batman then... as that thing was made by riddler on it lol
 
I was going to say I'd hope not. I can imagine the conversation now.

So johnny dearest exactly how much of the day do you stare at women????!!!!??!!
 
Not a clue how realistic it was, but House M.D does tend to be quite accurate scientific wise.

There was an episode where a girl had her brain waves recorded for 8 hours or so whilst being shown thousands of images, these then I assume were used to anchor a particular brain wave to an image.

They then let her go to sleep and reversed the process so turning her brainwaves into any images she saw earlier to see what she was dreaming.

Again, not a clue how much of a reality that technology is, but looked cool.
 
There was a truly tragic story a couple of years ago. Though like all things on the internet it may have been distorted to urban myth status. Pretty sure it's true though.

Lots of volunteers were asked to focus and think of themselves playing tennis or hitting a ball. Their brains' electrical activity was mapped so they could get a pretty accurate 'picture' of what happened while anybody would think of the same thing.

Then they went to a woman who'd been in a coma for years. They weren't sure whether she was brain dead or not, and so her family wanted to know whether it was better to switch off the life support. They asked the patient to then think of this activity while recording her brain - and quite unsettlingly, she yielded the same map. :eek: :(
 
Highly unlikely, as your "visions" are incomplete, subjective, and tied in strongly with conciousness (which is a highly abstract concept anyway). There would be no way to translate these subjective impulses into objective and transferable information. Or at least this is true up to our current understanding of physics.

However, the reverse idea of projecting images directly into our minds (some kind of retina-projector) is a very cool idea, and definitely feasible given sufficient advances in projection technologies and miniaturisation.
 
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