Decoding Visual Brain Activity.

"Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain..

The team said that it first figured out people's individual brain patterns by showing them some 400 different still images."

Are you checking out that girls arse, will no longer be a question.

He's beside his Virtual self.

"....virtual reality experiments show the brain can be tricked into believing it's outside the body."

"....researchers said subjects felt as if they were being poked in the chest—outside of their body.

“This was a bizarre, fascinating experience for the participants," Ehrsson said. "It felt absolutely real for them and was not scary. Many of them giggled and said ‘Wow, this is so weird.’”

"..."We've shown the body and self is somehow separate in the brain.."

Also available in pill form.

Can you Be me now ?

Scientists now have manipulated people's perceptions to make them think they have swapped bodies with another human or even a "humanoid body," experiencing the sensations that the other would feel and giving the illusion of being inside the other's body.

neuroscientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet succeeded in making subjects perceive the bodies of mannequins and other people as their own. The illusion also worked even when the two people differed in appearance or were of different sexes. It also worked whether the subject was immobile or was making voluntary movements.

However, it was not possible to fool the subjects into identifying with a non-humanoid object, such as a chair or a large block.

So for now it is still safe to hide as furniture.

Are You Staring At Me ?

"Two Swiss scientists said they had been able to identify a part of the brain that may be responsible for the "out-of-body" experiences of patients who came close to death.

Electrical stimulation of a key area of the brain near the temple upset the mind's perception of the body..

The brain generates an image of the body in the mind. But this is an external image as if the body were projected under, facing or behind the person. "In the first two instances, the patients still recognises their own image; in the latter, however, they sense another, sombre and menacing, presence."

I hate it when that happens.