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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Date: 11 Jun 88 15:28:36 GMT
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>The same may not be true of the mind: I can not be sure that I can
>measure your brain and determine (eg) what kind if pizza you are
>imagining.
>
>					Dr. T. Andrews, Systems

Recently I heard a rumor of a project where a computer had been hooked
to an EEG ("brain waves".) Apparently, after some training (think of
the word "red" and tell it you are now thinking of the word "red", it
records the EEG patterns, etc), the machine would guess with some
accuracy that you were currently thinking of a particular word out
of the learned set.

I have no idea if this story was total fiction or not, it was word of
mouth.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University