Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How long before EMI sues them for copyright infringement?

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Please drink a confirmation can to hum this song to yourself.”

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    • HellAwaits@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      *verification can

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• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How anyone holds onto the notion that our minds aren’t simply squishy, organic computers is beyond me.

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  • Neve8028@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess you could say that but brains are orders of magnitude more complex than any computer. Saying that they’re “simply” organic computers is a huge understatement.

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    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A TI-82, an Apple II, and a 48 core rack Server are all simply computers. It isn’t insulting the rack server to declare that both it and an Apple II are both simply computers.

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    • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Anybody who believes that out brains are simple organic computers seriously needs to try acid.

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• Gargleblaster@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is the song Brain Damage?

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  • ratman150@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Another Brick in the Wall Pt I according to the article. Woulda picked comfortably numb or something personally.

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    • Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The song chosen is my personal favorite from the album:)

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hope they allowed them to get high first. That’s a Pink Floyd requirement.

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  • loobkoob@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I've always found listening to Pink Floyd is enough of a high already, personally!

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nick: Hey does anybody wanna come see The Wall with me on Saturday night? Thought I might try an experiment—see it straight once.

      Ken: Don’t do it! You’ll regret it, man. Trust me.

      – Freaks and Geeks

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  • synceDD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah only way to enjoy their music

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• BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Woah. This is pretty wild. I wonder if they could record the sound of my brain exploding while reading this article 🤯

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  • deranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did you listen to the clip? It’s barely recognizable as any song.

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    • BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I did, and it’s absolutely incredible. Keep in mind that the audio was recorded by sticking electrodes on a person’s brain, no speakers or anything. The fact that it is recognizable as music is amazing, but the fact that you can actually hear individual words is totally mind-blowing.

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Make sure you’re listening to the clip towards the middle of the article. The one from the top is unrecognizable to me.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Scientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall by eavesdropping on people’s brainwaves – the first time a recognisable song has been decoded from recordings of electrical brain activity.

  The hope is that doing so could ultimately help to restore the musicality of natural speech in patients who struggle to communicate because of disabling neurological conditions such as stroke or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – the neurodegenerative disease that Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with.

  Although members of the same laboratory had previously managed to decipher speech – and even silently imagined words – from brain recordings, “in general, all of these reconstruction attempts have had a robotic quality”, said Prof Robert Knight, a neurologist at the University of California in Berkeley, US, who conducted the study with the postdoctoral fellow Ludovic Bellier.

  It contains a much bigger spectrum of things than limited phonemes in whatever language, that could add another dimension to an implantable speech decoder.”

  The team analysed brain recordings from 29 patients as they were played an approximately three-minute segment of the Pink Floyd song, taken from their 1979 album The Wall.

  This year, researchers led by Dr Alexander Huth at the University of Texas in Austin announced that they had managed to translate brain activity into a continuous stream of text using non-invasive MRI scan data.

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• Tolstoshev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They picked the right song for it. This technology will be used to ensure compliance.

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• timtoon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now do Keep Talking

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