The movie of your mind! Shades of Shinigami!
It seems that the scientists at University of California, Berklee have quite a lot in common with the dapper death gods that populate modern anime. Like the Shinigami of the popular Kuroshitsuji aka Black Butler series and others, these scientists are coming close to extracting the movie of your mind and keeping it on file.
University of California, Berklee scientists have developed a computer program that monitors the blood flow of your visual cortex and turns it into a type of pixel that can be correlated and put onto a screen.
They have done experiments where a subject will watch a movie and then they will look at the computer generated images this action creates. The results thus far are sketchy, but amazing.
If you are looking a human being, the computer generates a picture that looks like a human being. It can't replicate close facial features but it is remarkably close to a human image.
A pair of elephants walking left to right doesn't look exactly like elephants but there is certainly a large set of objects moving left to right.
Details and contrast are sure to come in time. If one looks at what passed for special effects in the 1980's versus what is available now, we can be sure that programs can and will be tweaked for accuracy.
Here are the articles and the video of the research:
https://sites.google.com/site/gallantlabucb/publications/nishimoto-et-al-2011
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/
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