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Hidden in the article is this link: https://gallantlab.org/huth2016/ https://gallantlab.org/huth2016/ Honestly, this is kinda scary. Some of the concepts that

Hidden in the article is this link: https://gallantlab.org/huth2016/ https://gallantlab.org/huth2016/ Honestly, this is kinda scary. Some of the concepts that are stored in close proximities feel like they tell... stories. Possibly very individual ones. For example, this is the "tag cloud" for voxel [26,35,42] right ("Good, very reliable"): > housekeeper, landlord, husband, wife, refused, apartment, husband's, parents, wife's, jail, bedroom, servant, family, pregnant, insisted, wives, refusing, pleaded, lawyer, ill Here's another one ([22,42,31] right): > wife, husband, afterwards, afterward, aunt, staying, months, weeks, slept, waited, month, leaving, leave, until, pregnant, decided, date, hadn't, wife's, stay Like, it doesn't seem that far from here to something like "your brain connects child, death and jail very strongly - did you murder a child?"... Of course, I'm theorizing ideas into research that I know very little about. But if it's true, it's hard to put back into the box...

bonoboTP 5y ago
No, that's your fantasy and I wonder what dark thoughts you have that you made this leap. For example you inserted "death" (and for that matter "child") out of the blue when it wasn't even there! Out of thre 3 words you speculate about, only one is in the list above, two are purely your own mind's product. The first cluster seems to do with homemaking, accommodation-finding, living arrangements and stresses involving this. The second one is about family and processes/conflicts/stress around it.
arbol 5y ago
This brain map was constructed from fMRI scans of participants listening to fictional podcasts called "The Moth". The fact these words are all grouped together suggests a high level of `arousal` which may be related to an emotive part of the story's narrative. You may very well have deduced part of the story. "child" does seem like an outlier when you consider individual words but it's the overall context that's important. Your second example highlights many words that related to time. wife, husband, *afterwards*, *afterward*, aunt, *staying*, *months*, weeks, *slept*, *waited*, *month*, *leaving*, *leave*, *until*, pregnant, decided, *date*, hadn't, wife's, *stay* Being able to visualise general concepts like this is one of the main benefits of the brain map. Reading anything more into it is prone to error.
- blurbleblurble 5y ago
  > Reading anything more into it is prone to error. That doesn't mean people in positions of power won't try and make inferences
jerry1979 5y ago
These collections remind me of Burroughs cut-up technique: https://languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques/william-s-burroughs-cut-ups.php https://languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques/wil...
blurbleblurble 5y ago
On some level it makes intuitive sense that people listening to the moth would relate the stories they heard to other stories, either that they had experienced directly or indirectly, fictional or non-fictional. It does seem really personal and almost invasive regardless! I can only assume/hope that people consent to bring imaged like this.

bonoboTP 5y ago

No, that's your fantasy and I wonder what dark thoughts you have that you made this leap. For example you inserted "death" (and for that matter "child") out of the blue when it wasn't even there! Out of thre 3 words you speculate about, only one is in the list above, two are purely your own mind's product. The first cluster seems to do with homemaking, accommodation-finding, living arrangements and stresses involving this. The second one is about family and processes/conflicts/stress around it.

arbol 5y ago

This brain map was constructed from fMRI scans of participants listening to fictional podcasts called "The Moth". The fact these words are all grouped together suggests a high level of `arousal` which may be related to an emotive part of the story's narrative. You may very well have deduced part of the story. "child" does seem like an outlier when you consider individual words but it's the overall context that's important. Your second example highlights many words that related to time. wife, husband, *afterwards*, *afterward*, aunt, *staying*, *months*, weeks, *slept*, *waited*, *month*, *leaving*, *leave*, *until*, pregnant, decided, *date*, hadn't, wife's, *stay* Being able to visualise general concepts like this is one of the main benefits of the brain map. Reading anything more into it is prone to error.

blurbleblurble 5y ago
> Reading anything more into it is prone to error. That doesn't mean people in positions of power won't try and make inferences

jerry1979 5y ago

These collections remind me of Burroughs cut-up technique: https://languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques/william-s-burroughs-cut-ups.php https://languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques/wil...

blurbleblurble 5y ago

On some level it makes intuitive sense that people listening to the moth would relate the stories they heard to other stories, either that they had experienced directly or indirectly, fictional or non-fictional. It does seem really personal and almost invasive regardless! I can only assume/hope that people consent to bring imaged like this.