Mind-reading in 2012?

Read mid page of page 7 of the Daily Telegraph (01 feb 2012). (Headline “Mind-reading device could be reality.”) The article by Nick Collins about research in published in ‘Public Library of Sciences Biology’ could have amazing ramifications for many people and families. It tells how scientists can discover what word a person is hearing by translating their brain waves!

The impact for speech impaired stroke and brain damaged victims could be extraordinary. It has created the hope that an implant which could interpret imagined speech in someone who cannot speak, could be on the horizon.

Further reference to Prof.Robert Knight of the University Of California at Berkeley for those interested could be worthwhile.

Gerry Neale

Author of Self - Discovery Novel "Squaring Circles"
www.squaringcircles.co.uk