{"id":112585,"date":"2020-09-05T22:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T05:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-brain-implants-that-could-change-humanity"},"modified":"2020-09-06T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T18:35:40","slug":"the-brain-implants-that-could-change-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-brain-implants-that-could-change-humanity","title":{"rendered":"The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"display: none; padding-right: 20px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/28\/opinion\/sunday\/brain-machine-artificial-intelligence.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Using image processing to improve reconstruction of movies from brain activity\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/169779284?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He was also scared because the experiment showed, in a concrete way, that humanity was at the dawn of a new era, one in which our thoughts could theoretically be snatched from our heads. What was going to happen, Dr. Gallant wondered, when you could read thoughts the thinker might not even be consciously aware of, when you could see people\u2019s memories?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/opinion\">Opinion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brains are talking to computers, and computers to brains. Are our daydreams safe?<\/p>\n<p>Credit\u2026 By Derrick Schultz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was also scared because the experiment showed, in a concrete way, that humanity was at the dawn of a new era, one in which our thoughts could theoretically be snatched from our heads. What was going to happen, Dr. Gallant wondered, when you could read thoughts the thinker might not even be consciously aware [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112606,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112585\/revisions\/112606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}