[gui-talk] the brain is the ultimate graphical user interface

[Joel Deutsch]

I clicked on this Kurzweill page, then found and clicked on the printable 
article version in order to have a clean, easy to navigate Web page to read 
with Jaws, and gave Jaws the Say All command.

But it read only a little more, a few lines more, than you must have 
excerpted for your post, and stopped dead. I down-arrowed and explored, but 
there was nothing after (below). I went back to the first version of the 
page, and it seemed that not even this much was there.

Here are the last lines I found on the printable version page. Is this all 
there is? I was expecting an actual article of some detail and length 
because Cubit had discussed the topic at some length. But from this short 
abstract or whatever it is, I can't for the life of me extrapolate very much 
about this topic. Does it have to do with using functional MRI scans, for 
instance, to track brain activity by area in response to stimuli? Or is it 
something else? I can't actually figure out anything about this, given so 
little. Maybe I clicked on the wrong thing or something? Here are the last 
words I was able to find, and I quote:

These findings confirm the notion that numbers are encoded in the brain via 
detailed and specific activity patterns.

...and that's it. Sorry the hyperlinks copied here as active links, or at 
least that's what I'm getting in the message as I prepare it. Informative as 
this sort of thing may be, I generally find it intrusive and distracting 
when I'm trying to just read through some prose. If I want to know what a 
brain is I can look it up. Don't need these peoples' constant links. But 
that's just me.
Anyway, where's an article of any substance? Or is this simply touching on a 
larger story some people like Cubit are already aware of because it was on 
TV, which I don't have? What's the story?

Thanks.
rea hperlinks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hoffman, Allen" <Allen.Hoffman at dhs.gov>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 7:06 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] the brain is the ultimate graphical user interface


FYI

Seems like this may eventually be a tiny part in eventually developing
artificial vision.

*************************
Cracking The Brain's Numerical
Code: Researchers Can Tell What
Number A Person Has Seen
ScienceDaily Sept. 25, 2009
*************************
By carefully observing and
analyzing the pattern of activity in
the brain, researchers have found
that they can tell what number a
person has just seen, or how many
dots a person has been presented
with. These findings confirm the
notion that numbers are encoded in
the brain via detailed and specific
activity...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=11171&m=51300


Allen Hoffman

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