It's their claims, not mine. I see how it works and I see the progress in large streamed data. They claim to have done it and their peers will now reproduce it, maybe improve it, and progress will go on.

Many times I say, "I think I'll have some broccoli!"

Well lets say they learn how to read minds. What will they do with that technology?

Will they be able to aim their mind reading guns at a person across the room and read their thoughts? How will that work?

Or will they have to strap you into their mind reading chair and attach electrodes to your brain?

Inquiring minds want to know.

(I'm really not too worried about it. There isn't much in my mind for them to read.)

Extrapolating from the tech we have right now, they won't be able to read your mind from across the room for the foreseeable future. I don't know of any science/tech that would allow the measurement of nervous system activity from across the room.... yet.

Good. Then all we have to do is avoid being strapped into a mind reading chair.

The discovery was that all language goes through the temporal lobe and causes the same electrical signal to be produced whether the word is heard or thought. This discovery removes 90% (or whatever) of the brain from the need for signal analysis and maps a one to one relationship between words and brain electrical signals.

Brains adapt and are flexible hence they are not all the same.



http://hypervocal.com/news/2010/if-anyone-should-be-allowed-to-hire-a-prostitute-its-mr-half-a-head-with-pic/

Here is another brain: Hollow in the middle.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html

Man with tiny brain shocks doctors
A man with an unusually tiny brain manages to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, which was caused by a fluid build-up in his skull.

Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue (see image, right).

"It is hard for me [to say] exactly the percentage of reduction of the brain, since we did not use software to measure its volume. But visually, it is more than a 50% to 75% reduction," says Lionel Feuillet, a neurologist at the Mediterranean University in Marseille, France.

Feuillet and his colleagues describe the case of this patient in The Lancet. He is a married father of two children, and works as a civil servant.

Second picture is a normal brain.