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[scoured]

There's definitely a scary sf story in here: Scientists move a step closer to reading a person's mind.

It's actually much less scary than it sounds - through a lot of study they're able to recognize patterns in spatial memory, and they're hoping to apply it to Alzheimer's research. Still, it definitely triggers dystopic sf ideas.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

That is very cool, in a slightly creepy way. I knew the hippocampus didn't have such an awesome name for nothing!

[scoured]

The brain is so amazing! Being about the most unscientific person ever, it's so crazy to me when I read about something so abstract as a memory having a physical basis. It's like when they taught me about photosynthesis, and I absolutely could not envision all of that happening in a plant.