Scientist Says a Dream TiVo Is Possible [Whoa]

Caltech researcher Moran Cerf says he ” want to read people’s dreams.” Well, wouldn’t we all! Except that Dr. Cerf thinks it would be possible, based on his new research . Especially in the event that your dream is ready Bill and Hillary Clinton.

See, Dr. Cerf’s study claims that certain brain neurons are associated with certain concepts, and ” light up” when people consider those concepts. By showing volunteers pictures of ” quite a lot of objects and ideas,” including, for some reason, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and recording which neurons ” lit up,” Cerf was in a position to read his subjects’ minds, kind of. (Provided they were deliberating Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, the Eiffel Tower, or Marilyn Monroe.)

That is pretty futuristic and cool, in that sort of way where you know the robots will seize this technology and use it to enslave us all! And consider the ramifications: Dr. Cerf thinks it’d be theoretically possible to ” read” dreams. Read dreams!! Do you remember the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring summer blockbuster Inception? Well, it’d be similar to that, except, uh, that movie was about people going inside dreams, not just ” recording” them, or whatever. But still! That you would be able to read someone’s dream and go, ” You only got…Incepted.”

So how soon do we get our dream reading, uh, laser gun, or whatever? The BBC writes that ” Professor Colin Blakemore, a neuroscientist at Oxford University, believes that it’s miles quite a jump from the limited results obtained inside the study to talking about recording dreams.” So… like ten years, or so?

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