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NihilCredo comments on Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies. [link] - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Kevin 23 September 2011 05:10AM

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Comment author: NihilCredo 23 September 2011 08:25:02PM -1 points [-]

they should do this with the basketball team + gorilla video

would be intresting to see if gorillan shows up in the reconstrucshon

Comment author: pedanterrific 23 September 2011 09:46:50PM 5 points [-]

Have you, like, had a stroke in the last 12 hours or are you just drunk?

Comment author: NihilCredo 24 September 2011 05:12:35AM *  4 points [-]

The latter, thankfully. Your concern is appreciated.

At least this one time I wrote something semi-useful. I would genuinely, and soberly, be interested to see such a reconstructed gorilla video, and in particular the difference between a watcher who is instructed to focus on the ball and one who isn't.

Comment author: pedanterrific 24 September 2011 04:40:46PM 1 point [-]

Thank goodness! (Party hard!)

And yes, though I suppose that might be influenced by whether there happens to be clips of gorillas in the sampled material.

Also, the example reconstructions seem considerably simpler (in the sense of there being a single, obvious-to-human-eyes focal object) than a basketball clip would be. It makes me curious what the differences would be - whether the 'most similar' clips would be other sports, people standing still, balls moving around the screen...

Comment author: [deleted] 23 September 2011 10:02:43PM 0 points [-]

(by the way, he is referring to this)

Comment author: pedanterrific 23 September 2011 10:22:58PM 5 points [-]

No, I know what he's referring to - I even think it's an interesting question - I'm just remarking on the fact that his last few posts have been uncharacteristically incoherent.