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We are mind readers

croxiscroxis I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050427_mind_readers.html[/url]

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  • sleepy_shadowsleepy_shadow Ranger
    I would still say... that we are *not* mind-readers. Merely equipped with a crude debugging interface for performing near-adequate prediction of fellow human mindstates. In simplified but silly terms, interaction between our different modules might go so:

    Action planner: "We need to predict this individual's viewpoint. Somebody do it."

    Mirroring network: "Doing it. Sombody tell me what we know about this individual."

    Rest of knowledge-containing neural networks: "Here's the data. Now what?"

    Mirroring network: "Mind you if I perform a context swap? Just for a moment."

    :: mirroring network reflects data to input connections for the rest of brain ::

    Mirroring network: "Well, how did that feel?"

    Rest of brain: "Angry as hell, about to whack that dork with a live spoo."

    :: whack ::

    Mirroring network: "Hey, action planner!? Where are you? He's gonna whack us with the spoo. Do you copy?"

    :: whack whack whack ::

    Action planner: "I copy. The bastard has already whacked us with a spoo. I got overtaken by a self-preservation shortcut. It says: duck and run! I say: faster -- he's got multiple more spoos."
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    I know
  • Morden279Morden279 Genius
    It was weird on Monday.

    The young woman who takes my seminars for Medieval History at University (a rather attractive and buxom individual), was talking, and I inadvertantly chimed-in and finished one of her sentences exactly how she did. Anyway, we laughed and exchanged embarrassed looks and I went bright red as a result. :o

    Regards,
    Morden
  • The Cabl3 GuyThe Cabl3 Guy Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Morden279 [/i]
    [B]It was weird on Monday.

    The young woman who takes my seminars for Medieval History at University (a rather attractive and buxom individual), was talking, and I inadvertantly chimed-in and finished one of her sentences exactly how she did. Anyway, we laughed and exchanged embarrassed looks and I went bright red as a result. :o

    Regards,
    Morden [/B][/QUOTE] and fucked her brains out?
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    Here comes the Psi Corps...or the Phi Corps ;)

    Worf
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by WORF [/i]
    [B]Here comes the Psi Corps...or the Phi Corps ;)

    Worf [/B][/QUOTE]
    I wonder what would be worse?:eek:
  • EclecticonautEclecticonaut Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by C_Mon [/i]
    [B]I wonder what would be worse?:eek: [/B][/QUOTE]
    That soon we're all going to become [url=http://65.127.124.62/south_asia/4483241.stm.htm]brain eaters[/url]! Grab your guns, it has finally started! :eek:
  • Morden279Morden279 Genius
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by The Cabl3 Guy [/i]
    [B]and fucked her brains out? [/B][/QUOTE]

    Um, no.

    I'm a romantic. Smooching would have been top of my list.

    Regards,
    Morden
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