I can read your mind. I know what you are looking at. You are about to reach the end of the first paragraph. Ta-da! Telepathy, I confess, is not my strong point. But something disconcertingly close to it is emerging from the laboratory. Your perceptions of the outside world arise through brain activity. Scientists in China have managed to reverse-engineer this process, using brain activity to guess what people are looking at. Their algorithm, which analyses functional MRI brain scans collected while volunteers gaze at digits and letters, is able to furnish uncannily clear depictions of the original images.
我可以讀懂你的想法。我知道你在看什么。你快讀完第一段了。哈！我承認，讀心術不是我的強項。但與此接近的令人不安的事情正在實驗室發生。你對外界的感知是通過大腦活動完成的。中國的科學家已成功地對這個過程進行逆向工程：利用大腦活動猜測人們在看什么。在志愿者盯著數字和字母時，他們對其進行功能性腦部核磁共振成像(MRI)掃描，他們的算法對掃描圖像進行分析后，能夠神奇地還原原始圖像。