Here's how it works: you pick a task that requires high performance from your visual cortex, like catching a ball. Then, you go find someone who's a pro at catching a ball, stick them in an fMRI machine, and record what's going on in their brain while they visualize catching a ball. Now you've got your ball-catching program, and you're ready to learn. Next step: put yourself into the fMRI machine, and rig it to induce that pro ball-catching imagery that you recorded earlier in your brain using neurofeedback. You don't even have to be paying attention while this is going on. Your brain, though, becomes familiar with that pattern, which is what learning is: your brain becoming familiar with patterns. Play that pattern back enough, and you will get better at whatever activity the pattern is associated with.


This isn't just conjecture: the researchers involved have shown that this fMRI pattern playback can in fact "cause long-lasting improvement in tasks that require visual performance... In theory, a type of automated learning is a potential outcome.

Link: http://dvice.com/archives/2011/12/an-mri-machine.php

Seriously? thats pretty cool, but can it teach stuff thats complex like a series of actions and processes?

woah!

looks creepy but nice

Could it potentially teach things that aren't visual oriented, or is that its only purpose?

>>5 Maybe if it could work with other parts of the brain, but I'm not quite sure.

But wow, this is amazing!

"Yeah, who needs stupid old books and the will to learn? That's too hard, I want an easy way to do everything! Shortcuts are the way to go! who cares about building character through hard work and determination!"

The Matrix has you.

The idea is cool, though.
This is the type of future you'll be seeing. Ones that will make humans learn anything at near instant speeds, and be able to, someday, live for much longer years.

The idea, seems cool.

If you know what an fMRI does it scans for changes in blood flow in the human brain but everyones brains are different and what you suggesting to me is that we go about and learn baseball among variuos things by matching the flow of blood in our brains to someone else's brain? Can you not see the uselessness and dangers involded? It would be nice to learn everything in one go but I would say the average human brain would fry out if it were possible at all.

I like it.
It would really help me with parkour...

I agree, does this make anyone else thinnk of Matrix when they look at the picture or read the article?

I know kung fu

>>13 Show me.

This does make me think of matrix.

Quick, plug it into Shizuo, then me!

We are still very far from this, and I doubt that it'll be as easy as this. Even if you have a standard memory of doing something, you'd have no muscle memory, you need training, dexterity, or w/e to do any certain task, not to mention developing your neural pathways to allow for a faster flow of information in that direction.

If this is done in this matter, you'd be, at best, severely autistic, doing that one process that you downloaded, over and over until you've trained it enough that your brain can cope with the external flow of information. Or just seriously burn a fuse.

Our mind needs time to learn and adapt to something, we might be able to hasten the learning process, but we're no way near "plug and play".

WOAAAAH.....IMMA TRY AND DO SHIZUO WITH THIS

O.O wow..