mind reading

China says it has already used the technology to make “mind reading” possible and a pair of U.S.-based scientists have demonstrated the ability to insert false memories into mice.

This causes us to deploy the common cognitive distortion of mind reading, in which we're convinced we know what someone else is thinking.

But Bellier’s team was not only interested in “mind reading,” says Sylvain Baillet, a neuroscientist at McGill who was not involved in the work.

But even if this approach works, the prospect of combining mind reading and machine learning to predict hit songs remains fraught with ethical dilemmas.

It translates the communication between neurons into squiggly lines, which can tell us something about what's happening inside someone's skull — although it's also quite limited technology and not even close to mind reading.