Trying to make sense of it. Auditorialization of some brainwave data? - Alexander Kruel

Or neurofeedback? - Alexander Kruel

10 year old hitting the piano keys? - Alexander Kruel

Never mind, just saw the tags :-) - Alexander Kruel

Cool! - Björn Brembs

the sound is (poor) audiolization of spike trains from 14 extracellular electrodes in one of my experiments - Christopher Harris

the brain is mine :) - Christopher Harris

Ah see, that's the term I have been searching for, 'audiolization'. The analog to visualization...I guess 'auditorialization' is either wrong or something different. - Alexander Kruel

Google: 'Results 1 - 10 of about 1,510 for audiolization.' - Alexander Kruel

Google knows more about 'XiXiDu' than audiolization. - Alexander Kruel

This made me thinking about data. All this stuff is just a representation of the original information. Even the 0's and 1's is the same in a different form. But what is it that is the original information. Hmm...I really have to read up on information theory at some point. -- "For an event to be evidence about a target of inquiry, it has to happen differently in a way that's entangled with the different possible states of the target." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky, What is Evidence? - Alexander Kruel

And the title? Some insider joke? - Alexander Kruel

no no, just the truth., the most personal and powerful is 1.5 kg of flesh right between our skulls and we've only just started to scratch the surface. it's shocking to me how little we know (scientifically!) about our own brains, and also very exciting, the possibilities seem endless - Christopher Harris

I wonder how much did we know about physics at the time of the Mahatten Project, compared to our current understanding of the brain? Also, could you name some milestone we have to achieve to believe that neuroscience left its 'children's shoes' and enters the mature phase of wide-scale practical use? And do you think that growth and development of computation in combination with imaging technology partly equates to progress in neuroscience? - Alexander Kruel

I really don't know.. like every science we need a rigorous mathematical foundation, one that that describes what neurons, networks and embodied brains do, but we don't even have a widely accepted CONCEPTUAL brain theory yet, nor good standards for recording and sharing neurophysiological data. relative to physics we're pre-Newton. imaging technology is important but without a solid brain theory it doesn't tell us much, we're not even sure what an fMRI signal measures (that image of my brain that shows up in the video is very pretty and all but it means nothing to me). - Christopher Harris

It always strikes me how complex this particular field is and how one could possible do research in it aimed at defining a general accepted conceptual brain theory. I often read how scientists cannot keep up with research on a narrow, highly specific field they pursue. But when it comes to neuroscience, especially the big picture, how can one person ever grasp its nature, even in abstraction? Since neuroscience must include biology, chemistry, physics (maybe quantum mechanics) and advanced mathematics. Also it demands huge chunks of knowledge of information theory, computation, complexity, randomness and the field of psychology. Then there is the expertise in how to use the technology used to examine the brain. Possible advanced programming skills...and so on. - Alexander Kruel

on the plus-side tho, it means that progress in any of those other fields can move neuroscience forward :) - Christopher Harris

That is if you get to know about it: "But Shannon’s proof held out the tantalizing possibility that, since capacity-approaching codes must exist, there might be a more efficient way to find them. The quest for such a code lasted until the 1990s. But that’s only because the best-performing code that we now know of, which was invented at MIT, was ignored for more than 30 years..." -- No One Knows What Science Doesn't Know http://lesswrong.com/lw... - Alexander Kruel

http://xixidu.net/2010... ;-) - Alexander Kruel