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This looks either very amazing, or complete BS. I want examples. How did their experiments work? I don't care what it is that I'm learning, I wanna see a demo.

• zinkem 15y ago
  >I don't care what it is that I'm learning What if it's obedience? :)
  • sukuriant 15y ago
    As with all technologies, there is use and there is misuse. These sort of fears are why I don't work for the government, but it doesn't stop things from being discovered. Indeed, discovery isn't evil, only what these discoveries and advancements may be used for.
• edtechdev 15y ago
  The title is complete BS. This is perceptual learning we are talking about, at the very lowest level - in this case just recognizing the orientation of a bar. And that's all the results apply to - not 'Matrix-like learning'. And it's not passive, either. Subjects were asked to "somehow regulate activity in the posterior part of the brain to make the solid green disc that was presented 6 s later as large as possible (the maximum possible size corresponds to the outer green circle)." That's effortful, although yes, they may not realize what effect this has on patterns of activity in their brain (patterns identified by fmri that the experimenters are trying to get the subjects to reinforce).