I believe that training a system to understand the electrical signals that define a movement is significantly different from a system that understands thought.
I work in neurotech, I don't believe that the electrical signals of the brain define thought or memory.
When humans understood hydro-dynamics, we applied that understanding to the body and thought we had it all figured out. The heart pumped blood, which brought nutients to the organs, etc etc.
When humans discovered electricity, we slapped ourselves on the forehead and exclaimed "of course!! it's electric" and we have now applied that understanding on top of our previous understanding.
But we still don't know what consciousness or thought is, and the idea that it is a bunch of electrical impulses is not quite proven.
There are electrical firing of neurons, absolutely, but do they directly define thought?
I'm happy to say we don't know, and that "mind-reading" devices are yet un-proven.
A few start-ups are doing things like showing people images while reading brain activity and then trying to understand what areas of the brain "light-up" on certain images, but I think this path will prove to be fruitless in understanding thought and how the mind works.
I work in neurotech, I don't believe that the electrical signals of the brain define thought or memory.
When humans understood hydro-dynamics, we applied that understanding to the body and thought we had it all figured out. The heart pumped blood, which brought nutients to the organs, etc etc.
When humans discovered electricity, we slapped ourselves on the forehead and exclaimed "of course!! it's electric" and we have now applied that understanding on top of our previous understanding.
But we still don't know what consciousness or thought is, and the idea that it is a bunch of electrical impulses is not quite proven.
There are electrical firing of neurons, absolutely, but do they directly define thought?
I'm happy to say we don't know, and that "mind-reading" devices are yet un-proven.
A few start-ups are doing things like showing people images while reading brain activity and then trying to understand what areas of the brain "light-up" on certain images, but I think this path will prove to be fruitless in understanding thought and how the mind works.