Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Neurons of the Night, What Sweet Music They Make!
In Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency one of the characters was a computer programmer that had developed a program to turn company financial reports into music. Now philosopher Dan Lloyd has developed a computer program to turn brain scans into sound, healthy brains produce quite standard melodies, the brains of people with diagnosed mental conditions goes a bit Cage or Stockhausen-y.
Labels: brain/mind, music, science, the brain
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Another of those 'what kind of brain do you have young Padawan?' type tests. The odd thing is, based on the values listed on the left, I would have thought I'd see the dancer turning anti-clockwise, but no matter what I do, I see her turning clockwise. Hmmm...
Labels: brain/mind
