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

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 27 September 2011 11:03:32AM 0 points [-]

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but this isn't reading visual experience out of the brain (and isn't claimed to be).

I neglected to notice the title of the paper, "Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity..." So they do claim to be reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity. What they are actually doing is reconstructing the pictures that the subjects were looking at.