005 – Scores of Mutual Nightmares

Above are the actual images from the brain scanning study. The first (red) is the training image, the second (grey) is the image generated by the AI after a brain scan of the participant.

Source: Computer Vision Fdn.

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CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us. Special thanks to friends and family for listening to the edits and help us make this better.

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This episode Trace thinks about thinking, which is pretty cool when you think about it. Julian explores alternative disaster prevention strategies (Spoiler: it causes a bigger disaster).

QUESTIONS

Julian: "What if you plugged a volcano with concrete?" from Trace

Trace: "What are thoughts made of?" from Julian

MORE RESEARCH

Below is the video Trace showed Julian featuring neuroscientist Dr Wilder Penfield. The woman who remembered a song during her brain surgery is featured here as well, but I warn you there are actual brain surgery images in this video. We’re not sure where the video is from, and have no licensing to show it, but guess it’s part of a series regarding inductees to Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.