Inside the Dutch machine that can read people's minds - Science unscripted

Your partner's scrolling through Instagram.

Suddenly they stop. And stay on a single photo.

After a while, you can't help but wonder:

Who are they looking at?

Is it a friend? A family member?

Or is it an ex? Someone new? Someone you've never met?

As crazy as it sounds, you can more or less figure this out, today, right now — and with uncanny accuracy — with the right equipment.

That is one of the startling conclusions of a study by Thirza Dado and her colleagues at the Donders Institute for brain, cognition and behavior in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Their experiment begins with an MRI.

Where it ends... no one's really sure yet.

However you look at it, the implications of "neural decoding" are big.

Let her light your brain up 🧠💥

Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

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00:00 - Gabe gets an MRI
00:35 - Why we traveled to Nijmegen
01:07 - Meet Thirza Dado
01:22 - What did Thirza's study actually do?
02:12 - Can an MRI really "redraw" what Gabe was thinking about?
03:30 - The results of Thirza's study
04:08 - Comparing the ("almost identical") recreated faces
04:27 - Do the faces really not exist?
05:00 - Would this experiment work on Gabe, today?
06:06 - What's the next step?
06:53 - How police can use this (in a good way)
08:39 - Enter the monkeys
09:26 - What's the actual next step for Thirza and her team?
09:59 - Could we also read thoughts?
10:34 - Gabe rediscovers "bitter balls"