Machine for pc and macintosh that can read your mind (This is no a joke)

[Tom Shafron]

This is a message I received from Eugen Leitl through private e-mail, 
she asked me to post it on this newsgroup because she was having 
difficulties posting messages.

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There _are_ simple algorithms to make sense from weak signals.
In fact using DSP filter techniques can vastly reduce error rate on
a noisy channel, it has long been incorporated into high-speed
modems. I think even most current EEGs are using DSP to enhance
data now.

But I still doubt they are actually using EEGs, this is probably
biofeedback or EOG potentials they are grabbing. (And kids are
a lot faster to learn feedback, so a 9 years old has probably
some big advantages here)

-- Eugene
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Her ideas seem to make sense, but on the CNN report it was said that 
there is absolutely no learning curve, and it is as simple to use as 
thinking. This was confirmed when I called the company.  If this is true 
then they cannot be using any configuration techniques or training 
methods to have you react a certain way to get a corrrect response.  
They must be using something that stays constant between people, to 
measure their thoughts.  I didn't know there was anything that was the 
same in the way two people thought.  Is it possible that when we think 
"left" there is a response in our bodies that happens the same in every 
person, every single time, and that this reponse is both measurable and 
unique for every possible thought?

Tom Shafron
tshafron at students.wisc.edu