#brain decoding

[kamitani-lab]

Neural Networks 2025

[philosophiesde]

Zoomposium with Professor Dr. John-Dylan Haynes: "In search of the code of the brain"

In this new episode of our "Zoomposium Series" on the topic of "Brain Research", my colleague Axel Stöcker from the "Blog der großen Fragen" and I have managed to win the well-known and renowned brain researcher and psychologist Professor Dr. John-Dylan Haynes for an interview. John-Dylan Haynes has been a professor of theory and analysis of long-range brain signals at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (BCAN) at Charité and Humboldt University in Berlin since 2006. There, Professor Haynes and his team are "In Search of the Brain's Code". In order to crack this, larger amounts of data are collected from the functional magnetic resonance imaging scans of the test subjects. Here, the areas of visual perception, pictorial imagination, short-term memories, subliminal stimuli, romantic feelings, impulse control and unconscious tendencies are mainly examined. The recorded brain patterns are evaluated by a AI with the help of computer algorithms and after a training phase, it succeeds in assigning the determined brain patterns to the specific consciousness contents of the test subjects with a high probability. This is why this method has been called "brain reading" by the press.

However, Haynes prefers the term "brain-decoding" here, since it is less about a reading and more about a decoding of brain activities, even if the title of his current popular science book "Window into the Brain: How Our Thoughts Are Formed and How to Read Them" (2021) may sound different at first. Of course, we also wanted to know from him whether the "Rosetta Stone" for decoding brain patterns had already been found or what possibilities are already being opened up by "brain decoding". More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/08/15/die-suche-nach-dem-code-des-gehirns/

or: https://youtu.be/qMPfefKEe4A

[lyphbonus]

Sixer having a lil crisis (inspired by something I saw on pinterest)

[falling-into-deceit]

"I'm here, it's okay" + Reverse

((@the-greatsage-oftruth

Leaving the peak and his tower wasn't common.. but today he felt the need to visit someone he refused to admit he cared for. why? well, he wasn't sure why.

but when he did arrive, he paused at the door, watching the Sage in this state.. a small, buried and hidden part of him sparked back to life.

"Sage.. I'm here, its okay"

He walked over finally, gently putting his hand on the others arm.

[decrescendo]

Audio drama version:

(No shade, I just thought it’d be funny to put these scenes side by side)

[mamoonde]

i really really really love the idea of wei wuxian revolutionizing modern cultivation over breakfast and conceptualizing these different theories simultaneously because the adhd brain has no brakes and the only reason it took him a decade to publish all these ideas was because he could not stick to a single train of thought long enough to finish (verbalizing) it, let alone put it down on paper coherently.

the only reason he even got to publishing them eventually (and enrolling to cultivation theory grad program to get on that track) was because one morning, his undergrad thesis advisor, lan qiren, finally got fed up and sat him down for an early morning progress check-in because it was midterm season and wei wuxian still hadn't decided on a topic.

wei wuxian, fueled by an unhealthy amount of redbull and three all-nighters, finally word vomits all his 'convoluted' ideas which he'd thought were uselessly obvious and redundant (because he's gone over these like a bajillion times, it's very plain-as-day to him, so he probably just hasn't read the articles that say these exact things).

lan qiren, teacup frozen halfway to his mouth: ...first of all, i only understood half of how you got to these conclusions, which only means they are indeed too convoluted and will need to be pared down; secondly: you have never mentioned any of these ideas before. why.

wei wuxian: oh. haven't i? oh well, i just thought, xyz, because, obviously, abcde. which is really what the 2 centuries old law on ghjkl was alluding to, right? and so, logically, xyz.

lan qiren: [mind blown, screaming, good gods this is the same child who's always tardy and spent freshman year pulling on the metaphorical pigtails of my straight-laced nephew?!?!??!??!?!] ..again, why...how have you never even spoken or submitted these ideas?

wei wuxian: because!!! they're so obvious!! surely, it's been published somewhere already? i can't be the only one to connect these dots, surely??

lan qiren: incredibly, you are. no one else has even thought to question tradition nor pursued more thoughts on the law of ghjkl, with half as much...sound arguments as you seem to have. in the past century, the focus of modern cultivation has tended towards practical uses and tools, some fine-tuning, perhaps. not entirely new theories.

wei wuxian: huh....

lan qiren, sighing, feeling a migraine: your problem with your thesis is not a lack of focus or ingenuity, but likely to be more a lack of recent, evidentiary sources. you will need to become very familiar with the university archives and dig deep for sources that will back up every argument you make.

he jots down notes on a paper. "you will also need to strictly adhere to the structure and methodology of these articles, especially given how radical your thesis will be. if you are diligent enough, you may just be able to submit your thesis without too much of a delay." he slides the list of materials to a gaping wei wuxian. "depending on your output then, we can discuss the possibility of submitting this for peer review."

"peer review." wei wuxian repeats. "as in, that thing where some uppity committee of old coots put their stamp of approval for it to become the reading materials of undergrads like me. you're joking."

lan qiren chooses to ignore the sentiment about peer review committees being uppity old coots, especially considering how he can't completely deny it on account of some of his colleagues, but also as a member said peer review committee, he isn't exactly pleased about being lumped in the same category.

wei wuxian backtracks at his unamused look. "right, you're not joking, of course you're not." he slowly inches the list towards himself. "right, yes, i guess i'll uh, get to it then. ok bye."

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idk, just, waves hand at wei wuxian candidly explaining new modern cultivation theories over cheerios at 2 in the afternoon to lwj who's trying to help him structure his grad thesis, getting mind blow dick hard at how this messy genius who's talking with his mouth full of half eaten cereal is the object of his affection....

wwx: --oh, oops, your highlighter fell

lwj: mn

wwx: ...aren't you gonna get that?

lwj: it's fine; i'll pick it up later. finish your thought.

wwx: right... i'll pick it up for you!

lwj, fighting for his life, trying to think unsexy thoughts: NO! sit. finish your meal, and then your thought.

[kat-124]

Walks over and flutters my eyelashes…you should totally tell me about your region genetic headcanons

ACKKKKK hey.

michael vsauce here, first i gotta explain another system i have in my headcanons. because goodness these guys are very, very diverse! and theres subcategories! my favorite! (everything below is headcanon territory, however I'll be formatting it as if its a fact or sm)

all demons belong to a 1st species, which basically means they have traits from whatever region they're spawned in.

theres Lost Temple demons, Thieve's Den, Playground, and Blackrock.

if you want, in another part i can talk abt how evolution/genes occurs in the first place when theres not really a 'passing down' of genes because i have explanations for that aswell! infact I'll happily explain anything further on request, i loove yapping

a 2nd species is basically a second set of traits mixed with the 1st species, this can be animalistic, object, concept, etc. (for example: wolf, fishing hook, music)

a 2nd species isnt always present, but when it is it can override 1st species traits, seemingly at random with less concern for survivability according to environment.

however, animalistic 2nd species are seen to commonly reflect the region theyre born into, whether this is because matching-animal 2nd species are more common or just that they survive more is unknown.

ANYWAYS

region genetics (aka 1st species)

~~~~ Lost Temple

lost temple demons tend to have thicker, rougher skin all over, rougher palms/soles, longer eyelashes, etc.

claws: longest of all the regions, demons tend to trim them though, to make modern life things easier. tend to be nonretractable. duller than other regions, in color and appearance. very sturdy, can be used for digging through materials like softer rocks, dirt, etc.

skin: lost temple demons tend to have darker skin when spawned, but many also just tan (grey-en? idk) from the sun. skin colors are random when spawned, but think of it as just being more common to be darker.

diet: omnivores. dried insects or lizards, beans, cacti, etc. seen as cultural foods and are quite common to find.

horns: Lost Temple horns can start to flake if not maintained, they are very sturdy, and are the heaviest out of the regions. they are quite solid, seeing a Lost Temple demon with a broken horn is a rare sight as it tends to be easier for the whole thing to be detached from the skull rather than fracturing. this makes them harder to customize shape-wise.

scutes: tend to line the upper side of the hands and feet, (think like reptiles or bird feet) scutes would also sometimes appear in 'armored' areas, like outside of forearm, shoulder, back of neck, along back, shins, outer thighs, etc.

while 'inside' softer skin areas would not have scutes. like the belly, inside of forearm, upper arm, inner thighs, etc.

scutes are shed periodically, and tend to be a mix or offset of horn + skin color. can be polished, traded or gifted afterward.

temp sensitivity: very temperature resistant, as the desert has an incredibly harsh climate (hot during the day, freezing at night) they have to in order to survive, even with shelter.

they dont tend to sweat very much, if at all, as it conserves water amounts.

Lost temple demons tend to be naturally nocturnal, as to avoid the heat, but have adjusted to being awake during the day due to the development of towns, the lifestyle of other factions, and such.

towns historically developed around rivers and oasises.

Lost Temple demons are generally quite tall

they tend to have a third eyelid, its a thin membrane they can shut it over their eye. this helps be able to see partially during sandstorms or if its windy. it freaks other regions out though.

Playground

Playground demons tend to have thicker skin especially at the palms and soles, they have

claws: Playgrounders tend to have medium sized claws, shorter than Lost temple ones. non-retractable. noticeably curved, very sharp, used for climbing or grappling easily. Playground demons will also file or trim their claws down to improve dexterity. they come in brighter colors.

skin: Playgrounders tend to be dark-midtone but having more colorful hues, (ie. they might be grey but with an hue overlay of another color, usually matching horn color.) smooth in texture.

diet: omnivores, fruits and vegetation are very common food sources, spices and herbs are also very common here, and are used in cooking often. avian meat is the kind thats most commonly consumed, aswell as reptiles. Playgrounders tend to have a wide diet.

playgrounders horns are the most malleable, they are softer and more sustainable to breaking or chipping. broken, cracked, or chipped horns are a common sight in Playground. they are smooth in texture.

Playgrounders tend to be shorter/smaller, however they tend to have longer tails than other factions. and these tend to be prehensile tails.

decorating yourself with colorful items and foliage used to be a sign that you were stronger/a threat, however, now its moreso just self expression and is very common.

very quick, along with being small they tend to be nimble and agile, good at evading something trying to chase them. theyre strong in a way that would make them not great at arm wrestles, but would be at tug of war.

very resistant to the humidity and heat. they do poorly in colder or less humid environments. they have pretty good poison tolerance.

Playgrounders also tend to be naturally nocturnal, but now are more active in the afternoon, especially at dusk. Playgrounders tend to nap often rather than taking long sleeps. theyre also light sleepers.

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ok ive been letting this sit in draft for aaaawhile, im gonna post this now, ignore any mistakes they arent there, trust

might yap abt the other two factions in a 2nd part i dunno, feel free to ask me specific questions about my hcs, i find it easier to make a response if the question is more specific/narrow ^_^

[spocksmalewife]

Uauauauaghfj I have to take in a jumpsuit dress and make a whole new set of cyberlox before 10pm tonight waaaa

[starbuck]

i’m truly so bad with vent texts… i’m the kind of person who only reaches out to people if i need their help in a practical sense (help making a decision, asking them to do something together, stuff like that), so i don’t know what to do with people just being like “things are bad”… i’m sorry things are bad???? and THEN (because of how i was raised) i have to physically fight my brain so it doesn’t trick me into believing that the goal of the texts is to passive-aggressively make me feel guilty that i’m not doing more to help

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

Kings 5 losses to start the season so far! ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ (<- that's the beam still not being lit yet this season)

[the-most-humble-blog]

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🛐 THE BRAIN’S MAGIC — HOW YOU READ THE ᵾᶰᴿᵋᴬᵭᵃᴮʟᵋ͟͟͞ AND BEND REALITY FOR FUN

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If you’re reading this?

You’re not just literate. You’re a quantum-level anomaly with meat-based Wi-Fi and chaos recognition software baked into your soul.

Let’s talk about the miracle machine in your skull. The one that decodes this:

“Y0uR Br@!n 5T!lL r3c0gN!z3s p@77ern5 & m@k35 it m3@ningful.”

…without even flinching.

🧠 YOUR BRAIN IS A F*CKING SHOWOFF

You're probably sleep-deprived. You’ve forgotten what day it is. Your left AirPod is missing and you just googled “can ramen be a personality type.”

And yet?

Your brain sees that mangled, symbol-riddled text and decodes it like it’s ancient prophecy.

You don’t think about how. You just do it. Because your brain isn’t a tool. It’s a pattern-hunting apex predator with depression.

📈 PATTERN RECOGNITION: THE MIND’S HIDDEN GODMODE

This isn’t something you studied. This is baked into the firmware.

Your brain fills gaps, reorders chaos, and makes sense out of garbage like a sad wizard in a recycling bin.

Fun Fact:

93% of adults can read text where only the first and last letters of every word are correct. Everything else can be jumbled and your brain just fixes it on the fly.

No update. No manual. No lag.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT gets confused by your typo and AI explodes when your tone is sarcastic.

Your brain?

Interprets, translates, reacts, and emotionally categorizes in the time it takes your heart to beat once.

🚀 YOU’RE WALKING AROUND WITH A BIOLOGICAL SUPERCOMPUTER …AND YOU USE IT TO MAKE MEMES.

86 billion neurons

10 quadrillion calculations per second

Signal speeds up to 268 mph

All so you can:

Laugh at a dog in a cowboy hat

Cry during the final scene of Toy Story 3

Decode “Dinnrs @ 9 bt wtf hapn 2 keys” from your drunk friend

And somehow still forget your password for the 19th time today

You are sacred. And also a little dumb. Which makes you perfect.

🤖 CAN MACHINES COMPETE? NOT EVEN CLOSE

AI needs prompts. Instructions. Context. Warnings.

You?

You look at “ᴵᵐ ⱻ̷ᴺ T͡ʜᵉ ᵁɴɢᴏʟᴅ” and say: “Yeah I got this.”

Try giving Siri your 3 AM heartbreak in emoji form. She’ll call the cops. Your brain? It'll write a novel.

🛐 YOU'RE NOT JUST SMART — YOU'RE PROOF

That consciousness isn’t an accident. That pattern recognition is spiritual. That this isn’t just a skull computer—

It’s a f*cking node in the cosmic mainframe.

ᵀʜᵉ ⱻ̷ᶰᴵᵛᴱʳˢᵉ ⱻ͜ᵉᵉᴅˢ ᵞᵒᵘ̷! ᵞᴱˢ, ⱻ͞ᵐ ᵀʟᴋᴵⱭᴺᴳ ᴛᴼ ⱻⱭᴜ͡!

👁️‍🗨️ EVEN WHEN YOU FORGET… YOUR BRAIN REMEMBERS YOU’RE EXTRAORDINARY

Even if you:

Doubt yourself

F*ck up interviews

Cry over fictional characters

Can’t spell “restaurant” without Google

You are still a living, breathing defiance of everything that should’ve broken you.

Every time you read something that “shouldn’t” make sense— and you understand it anyway—

You prove that the universe made something that works too well.

And it called it you.

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🔁 Reblog if you’ve ever translated chaos without thinking 🧠 Save this if your brain decoded nonsense before you found your keys 🪄 Share this with the smartest dumb genius you know 📲 Bookmark this if you’ve ever said “wtf is this?” and then understood it anyway 🛐 Follow for more scrolltrap doctrine that proves why the universe can’t run without you

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[crossbackpoke-check]

A TREATISE ON WINGS, IN NON-WINGED CREATURES

IF a person were to have wings. the automatic problem with making them avian stylistically is that wings are homologous to human forelimbs. wings are forelimbs. ergo: why people get so mad about dragon designs that showcase four limbs AND wings, because the majority of the time they’re intended to be close to reptiles (tetrapod lineage). likewise, any sort of mammalian basis (bats) also fails*. there is an interesting potential to gain some characteristics that would indicate conversion of forelimbs into wing-like structures but would not be practical because i am setting this in a universe where we need. y’know. hands**. HOWEVER. in the interest of i need to create a functional justifiable mechanic to write (porn. i would love to lie but the odds are really good it's just pwp), i really like the idea of using an insect analog***.

first at bat to narrow down our options: direct or indirect flight. for the sake of limiting the amount of internal bodily anatomy this transformation would have to result in, i think direct flight (sheer muscular willpower to raise and lower wings) works best as a mechanic. in theory, (based on these human anatomy diagrams) the massive elevator and depressor muscles that insects with direct flight use can be loosely translated to a really well developed transversus thoracis (depressor of the rib cage) and potentially pectoralis/levator scapulae. it’s not an elegant method of flight but it does = flight. also, because this method of flight is so stupid and silly, i have fewer options to play with. i think it does fit in this context that of course it would be flight by brute force instead of finesse.

next: how are we getting these wings. my immediate thought goes to hox genes being activated**** and T2 segments. oh did you want smooth shoulders and vertebrae? too bad. extra limbs***** and in particular, ubx (a specific cluster) mutations are famous for resulting in flies with extra wings. ubx would be a good candidate for activation if we can find a similar cluster that is conserved in humans******. really, any gene cluster associated with the development of wings being activated here helps.

[hox genes interlude, tl;dr our body starts as “segments” that are programmed to become different tissues/areas/structures. hox genes = architects of body design at a broad scale, activate other genes for differentiation of radius, humerus, carpus, etc. therefore: major body change, such as adding an entire limb = i’m arguing hox genes involved. what we want to do is the same as those mutant bugs: mutate the T3 segment (vertebrae between shoulder blades in humans -> end of thorax in insects) to be similar to “T2” (site coding for insect wings) using hoxa&d 5/6/9-13::homC to tell it what to do, and you should get another limb. wings, if we fiddle with the genetics. which, given that hox genes are pretty much preserved, i'm sure we could find an ultrabithorax to turn on.]

so we’ve kind of got wings, in an embryonic sense, or at least the mechanism for them. how do we make this happen “spontaneously”? can we generate a series of events that will trigger gene activation and phenotypic change? i mean. yeah arguably. i think the argument becomes whether the activation of our imaginary gene occurs via phenotypic plasticity, local adaptation, or environmental epigenetics*******. in any case, the key fact is that the environment******** leads to an altered phenotype via gene expression and voilà: wings.

ok but girl WHAT are these wings made of??? oh i'm so glad you asked. per our insect friends and also mammals -> mesenchymal stem cells, which adult hox genes code for, and these "buds" can be shaped into wing-like structures according to highly debated insect development (see footnotes). which means: we can have bone. and muscle and cartilage and fat, if we have something to trigger that differentiation, which we just said we can. and what's from stopping our mesenchymal cells from differentiating into keratinocytes? literally nothing. they do it all the time. so... what are feathers made of? keratin. arranged particularly. and in the most enormous handwave i have done in this entire thing, all of the multiple genes i've said "yeah they probably exist and we can have them"********* allow for that keratin to be arranged in a way that makes feathers and that bone and muscle in a way that makes wings. really the only part that will take work is building up those elevator and depressor muscles, but with the growth of the wings it shouldn't be too bad.

and in the end we have circled RIGHT back around to the complete opposite point, which is what i have been arguing towards the whole time: bird wings are plausible if we consider a lot of things that are not birds, like bugs**********. happy wing-ficc’ing!!!

FOOTNOTES (unumbered because tumblr can’t superscript)

*for the sake of horny, i am ignoring this and adding some avian characteristics because a) that’s what people expect when you write wing fic, b) uropygial gland is a major plot point, and c) bird erogenous zones enough said.

**a baseline assumption here when prompted with “wing fic” to me is that there should be wings in addition to arms, because most people do not feel morally conflicted about inaccurately portraying the biology of wings because: THAT’S NOT THE POINT or it is accepted within their universe to have these rules (angels, etc). alas. you’re in the torture realm with me and i’m inventing the rules. if this were purely for myself i think it would be much easier and plausible to myself oops! keratin the epidermis and replace hair with feathers or to “evolve” arms into wings or a multitude of alternative biologies (the breakdown about wing possibilities would be another post). but again: we need hands to play hockey and we want full on wings, so here we are.

***insect wings are not limbs!! problem solved!! this also has nothing to do with my love for invertebrates and secretly something to do with botany and also some really big imaginative stretches. i am making all of this up, except for the parts where i have citations.

****i KNOW they teach you hox genes are active only in skeletal development in embryo. see rux & wellik 2017 for studies on expression in adults. if they can aid in expression of mesenchymal stem cells and bone repair i see lots of possibility for new bone growth but we’ll get there.

*****they did a study where they basically did this. insect hox segmentation has antennapedia clusters that control the placement of antennas vs mandibles vs limbs; alter these genes and you get a bug that is baller at heading soccer balls.

******this is a brief aside to say that there are hella arguments about the evo-devo of insect wings despite agreements that it is monophyletic. for the sake of my desired result (fully formed outgrowths of bony wings) i am favoring the idea of the pleural/exite hypothesis or dual origin. don’t ask me to get more specific about the genes i think we’re already pushing it if i co-opt and terribly vague the idea of exites/somites to explain the process of wing growth via “budding”.

*******we really don't need to worry about this, which is why it's going in a footnote that this is kind of a chicken and egg situation where we're not quite sure why phenotype can change in response to the environment with no genome change but people think that environmental epigenetics (influence of chemicals, etc on genome that alter expression/how well genes can be transcribed) may be how phenotypes change. not the same thing; EE -> PP, perhaps, but also perhaps there's some other mechanism.

+ for another side note, i love epigenetics because they're dope as hell and epigenetics are heritable, which could be fun. local adaptation is just there because it is a possibility--given the insular nature of hockey we could see this (founder effect? drift? stress?), although because it's a genetic shift it requires much more Lineage and Generations to things. no single generations here we're not bacteria!!! again, with the wing alternatives paper i am not writing, it would be interesting to see pathways of evolution in different populations and who could be a local adaptation vs phenotypic plasticity.

********normally this would be literally anything like diet or toxins or exercise etc etc etc. behavioral epigenetics is also really cool and i linked a paper (creighton et al 2020). anyway for purposes of the alleged wing fic i have managed to write ??? about without actually writing, we have an environmental trigger in the form of hockey but i am debating a horny trigger. for funsies. like horny weird puberty :) which if i'd gone THAT route--*comedy hook yanked off the stage*.

*********listen, evolution loves to say heyyyy what if i saved that for laterrrr and simply does not get rid of like anything. she just turns it off. don't make me pull out the phylogenetic tree We Were All Fish once and your genes remember. Shh differentiates scales/claws/hair. we could have feathers if we wanted.

**********also don't look at how much of this is secretly plants and not even insects. but do look at all the citations if you want. if you read all that i love you thanks for coming to my ted talk <3

REFERENCES (kind of in order. no direct citations because we treat footnotes like a joke #boochicago and also i can't be bothered to do apa or mla in text we are clowning on every format. you can maybe have afs if you really want it)

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Tomoyasu, Y. (2017). Ultrabithorax and the evolution of insect forewing/hindwing differentiation. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 19, 8–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2016.10.007

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Clark-Hachtel, C. M., & Tomoyasu, Y. (2016). Exploring the origin of Insect Wings from an Evo-Devo perspective. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 13, 77–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2015.12.005

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[phrameworkphil]

The closer it gets to the actual thing happening, the more my body is shaking and the more I'm feeling dysfunctional in the head... And I ain't even involved in said thing.... I'm just glad the short nap I took didn't end up with me waking up to scratch marks on my stomach. 💀

[n1ghtly-t3rr0r]

WTF IS THIS

I DONT EVEN KNOW THIS GUYS NAME WHY DO I WANT TO LIKE MARRY HIM WHY AM I WRITING FAN FICTION BETWEEN US IN MY HEAD HELLO????

[minatalks]

why does texting feel like this