• davidgro@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The article said surgery. Also common sense, they are reading individual neurons. Not feasible from outside.

    Best we have is FMRI, and it is an amazing technology, but it absolutely can’t do that and never will because of how it works. And besides, it doesn’t fit in a doorway either, and would also be incredibly obvious: loud, super magnetic - requiring all metal to be removed for a long distance, requiring the target to sit for a long time and follow instructions, etc.

    Surgery is absolutely the only way this is possible.

      • Ixoid@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Better get your tinfoil hat then. What @davidgro says is right, your fantasy ideas are just that. Sure, in coming centuries this tech might be possible to be miniaturised and read externally, but for now that’s not even close to possible.