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I believe we have already made progress into reading data from the human brain - Identifying natural images from human brain activity (http://www.nature.com/nat

• ajross 17y ago
  That's reading the activity of visual cortex, though, not extracting stored memories. The former is pretty well understood, and works mostly the same across vertebrates. The latter is still mostly a mystery, thus the linked article is major news.
• barrkel 17y ago
  I think that's more like sniffing the bus, or the buffer, in which images are "held" between eyes and encoding, or after recall.