Mind reading technology: Is it already here?

In a speech at the World Economic Forum last year, Professor Nita Farahany argued that mind-reading technology is not only real but already in use.

She spoke of scenarios where brain metric monitoring could enhance safety, such as preventing accidents caused by driver fatigue. She also acknowledged the “dystopian” potential of this technology, like mandatory brain signal transmission in China.

Chinese train drivers, for example, are being required to wear brain-monitoring hats to monitor their fatigue levels. And brainwave-monitoring technology is already in use by companies like Amazon and Walmart.

Has mind-reading technology arrived or is the World Economic Forum fearmongering? The Gold Report takes a look into how far research into mind-reading technology has actually gone....<<<Read More>>>...

Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people's minds

 A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person's brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story — into a continuous stream of text. The system developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin might help people who are mentally conscious yet unable to physically speak, such as those debilitated by strokes, to communicate intelligibly again.

The study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, was led by Jerry Tang, a doctoral student in computer science, and Alex Huth, an assistant professor of neuroscience and computer science at UT Austin. The work relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power Open AI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard.

Unlike other language decoding systems in development, this system does not require subjects to have surgical implants, making the process noninvasive. Participants also do not need to use only words from a prescribed list. Brain activity is measured using an fMRI scanner after extensive training of the decoder, in which the individual listens to hours of podcasts in the scanner. Later, provided that the participant is open to having their thoughts decoded, their listening to a new story or imagining telling a story allows the machine to generate corresponding text from brain activity alone.

"For a noninvasive method, this is a real leap forward compared to what's been done before, which is typically single words or short sentences," Huth said. "We're getting the model to decode continuous language for extended periods of time with complicated ideas."

The result is not a word-for-word transcript. Instead, researchers designed it to capture the gist of what is being said or thought, albeit imperfectly. About half the time, when the decoder has been trained to monitor a participant's brain activity, the machine produces text that closely (and sometimes precisely) matches the intended meanings of the original words.

For example, in experiments, a participant listening to a speaker say, "I don't have my driver's license yet" had their thoughts translated as, "She has not even started to learn to drive yet." Listening to the words, "I didn't know whether to scream, cry or run away. Instead, I said, 'Leave me alone!'" was decoded as, "Started to scream and cry, and then she just said, 'I told you to leave me alone.'" ...<<<Read More>>>...

A victory for freedom in our Orwellian thought-crime nightmare

 THE reason George Orwell is quoted so often these days is because two of his works, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, are effectively prophecies of the demented post-modern era in which we live.

Identity politics, the ugly US import which separates everyone into tribes competing for victim status, was surely anticipated in Animal Farm by the observation that ‘all animals are equal but some are more equal than others’. Likewise, Nineteen Eighty-Four gave the world the concept of Big Brother, which is now more or less a reality, as well as doublethink and newspeak. In modern Britain there are examples of these everywhere.

One of the most chilling of Orwell’s warnings was that of ‘thought crime’ or ‘crimethink’, offences kept in check by the ‘thought police’ or the ‘thinkpol’. Until now they have remained in the realm of fiction.

Following charges brought in December by West Midlands Police against Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pregnancy counsellor, and Father Sean Gough, a Wolverhampton-based Roman Catholic priest, the substance of Orwell’s dual masterpieces can no longer be considered portents of a dystopian age to come, but one which has now surely arrived.

What crimes were so heinous for three officers to arrest, search, detain and charge Ms Vaughan-Spruce and similarly demand the presence of Fr Gough at the police station before they charged him too?

Ms Vaughan-Spruce had admitted to them that she ‘might’ have been praying silently in her head outside a British Pregnancy Advisory Service abortion facility. A 150-metre ‘buffer’, or exclusion, zone had been imposed by Birmingham City Council around this clinic the previous month, making it a crime to seek to influence or harass anyone within the vicinity. The clinic was closed at the time, so no one, including any mind-readers, could have been influenced or harassed.

Fr Gough had his clerical collar felt after he stood in the same censorship zone, demarcated by a Public Spaces Protection Order designed to tackle extreme anti-social behaviour, silently holding up a placard which read: ‘Praying for Free Speech’.

The charges were referred to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which last month threw them out on the grounds that there was no evidence that any crimes had been committed, but with a warning to the pair that should sufficient evidence later emerge the charges could be revived and they would be prosecuted.

This prompted Ms Vaughan-Spruce and Fr Gough to use their right to seek a verdict from Birmingham magistrates’ court about whether their actions were in any way criminal.

It was farcical to witness them in the dock yesterday. The CPS clearly did not want to know, declining to offer the slightest scrap of evidence to suggest any wrongdoing had been committed. District Judge David Wain summarily dismissed both cases in a matter of seconds. West Midlands Police surely offers each of these law-abiding citizens an apology, and they probably also deserve compensation.....<<<Read More>>>...

Researchers discover a new part of the brain and the World Economic Forum wants to use it to read our minds

In an article a couple of weeks ago, the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) detailed a recently discovered part of the brain that monitors for infections and inflammation. This was published in a paper on 5 January. By 26 January, WEF seems to have already decided how they could use it to their advantage.

WEF’s article begins: “Researchers have discovered a previously unknown part of brain anatomy that acts as both a protective barrier and platform from which immune cells monitor the brain for infection and inflammation.”

Immediately after the sentence above, one of WEF’s videos from 2016 was embedded, see below, describing the manipulation of immune system genes found in the brain. Lisa Boulanger, an American neuroscientist and associate professor at Princeton University, explained:

“These immune genes actually have two different roles. One in the immune system. One in the nervous system … We’ve developed a small molecule that we believe targets only the neuronal functions of these proteins.”

WEF’s article then goes on to describe the new discovery. In the middle of detailing the newly discovered part of the brain, WEF embedded a video of a session from Davos 2023, hosted by Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson, about brain transparency – which is WEF speak for computers reading our minds....<<<Read More>>>...

CIA report talks about space-time travel with the help of the mind

 A secret CIA report from 1983 on the “Gateway Experience” asserted that altered states of consciousness may be able to transcend space and time. After being declassified, the document has recently gained popularity on social media, reports iflscience.com.

In 2003, the 29-page “Analysis and Assessment of the Gateway Process” study was made public. The paper is believed to have been a component of a larger CIA research into whether hypnosis and mind control theories could be applied to Cold War espionage operations.

It’s a lengthy, wordy study that covers a wide range of topics, including quantum mechanics and neuroscience, and it balances between hard science and pseudoscience like it’s walking a tightrope. It essentially boils down to the CIA investigating the idea of inducing a profound out-of-body experience that could possibly tune into some kind of higher realm beyond reality.

“Fundamentally, the Gateway experience is a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness, moving it outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space,” the report reads.

The technique, called the Gateway Process, is based on ideas developed by the Monroe Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on the exploration of human consciousness....<<<Read More>>>....

The New World Order is Ready To Decode Your Brain

Another fear narrative for the frightened sheep to digest and fear into their reality. Whatever you turn your energetic attention to, often becomes part of your reality. 

[Waking Times]: What if, one day in the next decade, it becomes possible to read your thoughts? The WEF panelists suggest that different ways of scanning the brain and brain mapping could be incorporated into the legal system, used by lawyers as part of trials, including against you.

Apparently, according to one of the panelists, Jack Gallant, head of The Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley, “Anything that’s in current conscious awareness can be decoded, it’s just a matter of [finding the] technologies” to do so.

If brain mapping became mainstream, it could have major applications applicable to the law, such that even if a person chooses not to confess, their brain could be tapped to do it for them. This has already occurred in India, when brain scan technology was used to criminally convict someone based on the data received from their brain, not via their spoken words.

It’s possible, for instance, to decode signals in the brain in such detail that you could reconstruct a movie a person has seen, including not only the objects and actions in the movie, but also how that person felt about the movie — whether it made them feel happy, sad or otherwise.Already, in 2017, researchers with Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories and Kyoto University created a program to reconstruct images from brain activity. In one example, a person saw or imagined an image of a cheetah, which led the program to reconstruct an image of a cheetah, albeit one with a dreamlike, somewhat abstract aura....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Mind-reading AI may spell end to humanity as we know it, but not because it will enslave us – Zizek

[David Icke]: Technologies linking human consciousness to any sort of a cloud computing service could not just open the way for totalitarian mind control, but destroy the very essence of human relations, philosopher Slavoj Zizek says.

A computer that can read the thoughts of many people at once would make normal human life impossible, the Slovenian cultural philosopher told RT in the wake of the World Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference in Shanghai, which saw Alibaba’s chairman Jack Ma and Tesla CEO Elon Musk clashing over the future of AI.

While the two technopreneurs engaged in a heated discussion over the possibility of humans being controlled by machines in the future, the senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana shared his thoughts on the issue with RT.

Our brain being connected to a machine is not a utopia...read more>>>...

“Scariest Thing You’ll Read All Day”: Report Sounds Alarm Over Brain-Reading Technology and Neurocapitalism

You can bet your bottom dollar they already have this technology; they will already know what we are thinking. If they can control our thoughts, they can also listen to our thoughts. They have incredible technology that is light years ahead in advancement than they will ever let on.

[Waking Times]: A Vox report that swiftly sparked alarm across the internet Friday outlined how, “in the era of neurocapitalism, your brain needs new rights,” following recent revelations that Facebook and Elon Musk’s Neuralink are developing technologies to read people’s minds.

"Mark Zuckerberg’s company is funding research on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that can pick up thoughts directly from your neurons and translate them into words. The researchers say they’ve already built an algorithm that can decode words from brain activity in real time.

And Musk’s company has created flexible “threads” that can be implanted into a brain and could one day allow you to control your smartphone or computer with just your thoughts. Musk wants to start testing in humans by the end of next year"...read more>>>>...