I'm not so sure; I'd imagine that a human mind is a massively parallel process, and singling out individual trains of thoughts or decisions will be hard. It's p

I'm not so sure; I'd imagine that a human mind is a massively parallel process, and singling out individual trains of thoughts or decisions will be hard. It's probably fairly easy to tell what a large wildcat is thinking about when it's time for a meal, but an average person? How often has someone advised you to 'sleep on' a difficult problem? How often have you discovered a solution to something after spending awhile doing totally unrelated things? It will probably take a lot of doing to decrypt that mess reliably across a broad population. And think of the impact that culture and language will have! Surely people brought up in different systems of belief will think in different ways, their development having been shaped by different memetics and core ideals. Maybe that's the sort of problem that deep learning and AI could help sift through. But I'm not sure that I'd want to train a nascent AI on the human subconscious. Didn't Poe address this sort of thing? "The Imp Of The Perverse?" Hey, totally unrelated, does anyone have HBO's number? I think I got a pitch. Oh, and you can't mention Mind-Machine Interfaces without the quote from Alpha Centauri :) "I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine - just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness. Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen."