gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Penguin - Typing)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2009-01-07 05:01 pm
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Of course, it was inevitable.

That the moment I resolve to start writing, I get the worst case of writer's block ever.

Which leads me to ask for your help.

Suggest a topic for me to write 500 words on. It could be a setting, a character, or even a simple emotion, noun, or one-wpord description. Be as precise or as vague as you want to be. I only ask that if I do your suggestion, you give me feedback.

Thanks.

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[identity profile] lostwanderfound.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Future implications of mechanical mindreading technology, in relation to either artistic creation (what use for artists when anyone can literally videotape their own imagination?) or interrogation. See:

Kay, K.N., Naselaris, T., Prenger, R.J. & Gallant, J.L. (2008) Identifying natural images from human brain activity. Nature, 452(20), 352-356.

Stanley, G. B., Li, F. F. & Dan, Y. (1999) Reconstruction of natural scenes from ensemble responses in the lateral geniculate nucleus. J. Neurosci. 19, 8036–8042.

Thirion, B., Duchesnay, E., Hubbard, E., Dubois, J. Poline, J., Lebihan, D. & Dehaened, S. (2006) Inverse retinotopy: Inferring the visual content of images from brain activation patterns. NeuroImage 33, 1104–1116.