Machines That Read Minds Gary Selden Science Digest, October 1981 Electrodes pressed to your scalp, you sit down while scientists watch your thoughts as waves on a screen. When I was a kid dreaming about time warps and antigrav belts, one of the gadgets I wanted most was a tape recorder I could plug into my brain. The idea was to "write down" somehow the orchestrated chemoelectromagnetic music of mentation, to photograph the evanescent threads of thought so they could be played later at... read more
