Why don't someone invent a computer hardware that will transport ideas from our brain directly into a computer? This will save us time typing stuffs because we can instanly transfer our thoughts and ideas and be converted into a document. And in times that we are not in the mood of typing term papers or assignments, we can easily finish such requirements for it only needs little time to construct our thoughts and ideas. Just like what I am experiencing now, I have a lot of things to type and submit and yet i am having a hard time doing so because I am not in the mood typing these requirements. If a hardware like this is available, i know that i can easily finish all these papers in a day. This will also be of great help in desktop publishing and graphic designing because we can easily edit parts. We can adjust sizes, shapes, brightness, colors etc. in an instant.
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Aside from the fact we are far from having that technological capability, if a computer can read your mind, then so can the government and any commercial data mining group. Frankly, that would make me uneasy.
The hardware to interface human nerve signals to the internet and computers is already available and experiments on transmitting these signals have been carried out by Kevin Warwick in England. The real problem with your idea is that we dont know how thoughts and ideas are represented and stored in the brain, it may be that all humans store thoughts and images in the same way, for example if I think of a chair, and transmit that though pattern to you through the aformentioned computer link, that your brain would also be able to interpret that signal as a chair, however if a chair is represented in your brain in a different way, by a different pattern, there is no way that you will be able to interpret that thought/image.The computer will have the same problem, it could be that thought patterns and stored images in humans are as unique as individual fingerprints and it will be incredibly difficult to build a computer that can decode and correctly interpret each individuals thoughts, but thats not to say that we should'nt try to do it. Why not build a computer that can upload stuff into yer brain whenever you need some specialist knowledge, you will never have to pay for an expert again.....
Although adventurous ideas made possible by current technology are always welcome, offhanded suggestions the we invent magic rings for instantaneous travel at a slight twist or genie lamps to satisfy any odd wish at a command are the stuff of childish fantasy unless there is some scientific capability indicated. The current torrent of wishes beyond current capabilities that are assumed possible by some idle engineer repairing to his basement workshop in a free moment indicate that this site has become plagued with children or people with no concept of technology who draw on their knowledge of fairy tales for ideas. Frequently children do suggest neglected possibilities but I wonder what has happened to educated technology oriented people with real and possible and interesting suggestions.
Actually, this is somewhat feasible at present. Though indirectly. I read somewhere that every thought you have that you mentally vocalize, that you stress your vocal cords accordingly.
So if we were to monitor the electrical impluses going to a vocal cords we would deduce much of what we cognitively are thinking. We would have to train the device by speaking normally into a microphone over time and then correlate the impulses from vocalizing our thoughts.