Data: 2010-12-08 12:00:30 | |
Autor: Me | |
Slowo ostroznoci o neuromagneticznych czy 'neuroimagujach' technikach. | |
( prosze sprawdzic kontekst, w ktorym technika sama 'chce' przejac
substancje nawet na poziomie slow; i co to znaczy w konsekwencjach) Science Revolution: Application of blosoming neuroimaging techniques. WORD OF COTION AGAINST FIXING THE IMAGES WORD OF COTION ABOUT fMRI IN PARTICULAR - IT IS LIKE THE LIGHT REFLEXION OR THE SHADOW - THEY CAN BE TAKEN BY LIGHT OR WAVE OR EATEN UP BY THE OTHER EXITATION OF THE NEURAL MATTER THAT IS READ. IT IS ONLY 'FUNCTIONAL' ( AS OPPOSE, STRUCTURAL) AND ONLY UPON THE STABILISED BODY FOR THE GIVEN MONENT IN TIME, THEY HAVE SUCH A DEFINITE MEANING AS THEIR STATED ANALYSES OF PATTERN REVEAL. THE INTERPRETATIONS HAVE TO BE WELL GROUNDED. THE OVESTATEMENTS ARE VERY LIKELY. THE WORD 'PARADIGMS' IN IN THE INTERPRETATION BELOW NEEDS TO BE ONLY 'PATTERNS AS READ' AND CONDITIONS OF THAT READING SPECIFIED. ( BY THE WAY, PARADIGMS ARE AXIOMATIC, meaning that THE INPUT is first guaranted thus THE OUTPUT is valid only under the condition GIVEN, speaking general here; thus not really individual dignosed but the infered overall pattern; IT IS NOT EXCLUDED THAT THESE DISTRIBUTORS OF INSTRUMENTS FOR NEUROIMAGING REPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF CHIPS IN BRAIN, CONFUSING THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY AND LIMITING THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR SELF PERCEPTION AND SELF UNDERSTANDING - WHILE GETTING ROBOT LIKE; AND - IN CASE ANYONE FORGETS - ROBOTS ARE NOT THE HIGHER SPECIES TO HUMANS) from Brussels: "When you are thinking about something (let's say a bird), fMRI can show which voxels are activated (let's say voxels 33-52-20 and 34-12-40). Mind reading through functional MRI is inverting this relationship: if fMRI shows you are activating voxels 33-52-20 and 34-12-40, can we guess you are thinking about a bird ? Several group have taken up this challenge, using artificial intelligence techniques to infer subjects' thoughts or actions from patterns of pixels activated in fMRI images. For example: the hippocampus is known to process experience into memories and to be involved in the recall of spatial locations. With stimuli generated by a virtual reality system, Hassabis et al. asked subjects to virtually move between 8 locations within 2 rooms. Using a pattern classification algorithm to analyse the fMRI results, they were able to guess at which location the subjects were standing at a given moment from the pattern of activation of specific voxels in their hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus." THIS LAST ONE SEEMS TO BE A NEW WAY OF ANALYSING AND APPLYING PATTERNS in functional brain. BUT HOW FAR DO WE WANT TO GO - DO WE REALLY NEED TO GUES AS MUCH ABOUT PEOPLE AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE. EACH APPLICATION ACHIEVEMENTS HAS ITS COUNTER ( LIKE IN PHYSICAL SCIENCES -ACTION AND REACTION) OR THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. IF WE PUSH THIS APLICATION, GIVEN THAT EVEN SINCE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THIS TECHNIQUE, THE SENSATIVITY OF FUNCTIONAL INSTRUMENTS LIKE THIS fMRI RISES STEADILY, THAN THE COUNTER - REACTION READINGS WILL WASH OUT THE ORIGINAL GAIN ( if these reads are not on half robots already but for the robots there be the wall effect too) THAT IS THE NATURE OF THE TOOL 'GOOD FAIGHT', when the highly nanon- nized field dances all around its cycle - there is only as much to go; but what si worse is the temtation to invent these patterns thus limit human activity by narowing them. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE DISTRIBUTION IF SUCH INSTRUMENTS NEEDS TO BE VIA PROFESSIONAL CHANNELS AND UNDER THE LAB AND SCIENTISTS LICENCE, SIMILARLY TO OTHE PROFESSIONAL TOOLS. ALL CLINICAL APLICATIONS, AS ATTEMPTED ON THIS RELEASE AS WELL, NEED TO BE FOR PROFESSIONALS ONLY AS THE SOURCE IS PROTECTED, TECHNIQUES SHOULD BE AND THE CROSS APPLICATION INCLUDING ANY SO POPULAR IN USA / LONDON LEGAL ACTION THAT COULD USE SUCH DATA. THE EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQQUES, AS THIS ONE CLEARLY IS, HAVE TO BE RESERVED TO BE USED UNDER THE AGREEMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT ON THE PERSONS THAT WILL GIVE THE READ OUT TO THE PRODUCER AND OR THE CONSUMER OF THE PRODUCT - they have to agree to it, when the consent agreement clearly specified what the technique data collection is about. NOT ALL PEOPLE THAT WILL BE ASKED TO GIVE THE fMRI READ WILL DISCOVER THE LIMITATIONS; I AM NOT SURE THAT THEY ARE TOLD ABOUT THESE AHEAD OF THE READ. THE SELLER OF THE PRODUCT DID THE OPPOSITE - ADVERTISED AND PROPAGATED THESE WITH CLINICAL DATA AS IF 'PARADIGMS' - UNCHANGIBLE; AS IF WRITTEN IN STONE ALREADY, THUS CONTRADICTING SELF ALREADY - IT STARTED WITH FUNCTINAL PATTERNS ONLY, THAT STAY FUNCTIONAL AND FLUID ( untill people injured by chipping their neural tissue, and by fixing interpretations) OPPORTUNITY FOR MISUSE IS WIDE. |
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