Mechanized Mind Reading
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neuroscientists are able to determine the following:
- Which of 2 images a subject is looking at
- Whether one is looking at a face, animal or scene
- What finger you’re about to move
Already, scans have been used to identify brain signatures of disgust, drug cravings, unconscious racism, and suppressed sexual arousal, not to mention psychopathy and propensity to kill.
Interestingly, John-Dylan Haynes, coins the phrase, “mental privacy,” which is exactly what concerns me about this.
(Source) - complete with links to abstracts and additional detail
Visit the Gallery, click on Design, to peep the full sized version of the Illustration I did this weekend, shown top-right.
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