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Is it possible to project images from your mind onto a monitor?
okay so the technology for this question is probably really far off, but i was just wondering if it was possible. i mean, every single thought in the brain causes neurons or whatever to fire right? so couldnt you hook your head up to some sort of machine that interprets these neurons into the images you see? oh and what about getting sounds too?
i guess the origin my question comes from the fact that you just cannot fully convey an experience in words. it'd be great for those "you had to have been there situations" you know. and dreams too. it would be awesome to "re-watch" or re-experience some of your most epic and breath-taking dreams.
answers will be appreciated, thank you
My intuition is that it would not be possible in the way you're describing: to have a complete image of a past event, with or without motion, like a photograph or a movie. The reason is that the complete image is no longer in your brain.
Human vision is good for detecting motion, but not designed for detecting shape peripherally. At any given moment, the amount of our environment that we can see clearly is very small. We move our eyes an average of 3 times per second just to get enough information to construct an image of the environment based on the smaller snapshots.
So to project a complete image onto a monitor would require a very complex synthesis of several images. To have a clear projection of a small room would require thousands of images.
But not everything we see enters our short-term memory, much less our long-term memory, so there's no way we could have thousands of images of a room. There just isn't enough information left in the brain after the event to recreate the event vividly.
For example, I'm envisioning my bedroom. I've slept in that room for 11 years, so I should be able to describe it very well. But there are details of the room that are just not in my brain. Exactly how tall is my desk? How many thumb-tack holes are there in the walls? How many coins are currently in the jar on my dresser? I have no idea.
The point is that humans don't have the perceptual capacity to store a complete photograph or movie in our brains. No matter how many details you remember, there is some detail that you don't.
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