Psychic 'mind-reading' computer will show your thoughts on screen

lurkmode

Will we have the ability to record our thoughts/trips/dreams in the future?

This is some wild shit right here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete....html?ITO=1490

nepalnt21

fuck my life

EROCx1

say what!

Cant wait to see the imaging from the LSD studies on National Geographic.

skunkjar

Yes, this is AWESOME! The LSD thing from NatGeo seems quite neat- but seeing those scans comparing LSD, DMT, Mescaline, Psilocybin etc would be of GREAT significance IMHO.

Great Brittan is lucky- they have Torchwood to take alien technology and make it available to us humans... lol.

WorldBuilder · 12:23 AM

Man...

This would be really awesome, if it didn't have such a high potential to be our big brother. In a few years, there may really be a thought police

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Hopefully this technology gets used properly. I could see this being incredibly useful in psychology/psychiatry/neurology research, as well as perhaps animal psychology. It may even be able to be used for communication some day (for dumb or deaf people especially). Hell, it would even be a nice art-tool

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But then, if they began using this in criminal cases, and in security-related things, that would just outweigh all of the positives. Maybe if they only used it for murder-cases or something, then that would be a good thing (though, then again, the privacy of INNOCENT suspects may be invaded in the worst manner possible. Perhaps even for murder cases and other crimes which are actually serious it's not a good idea to use this thing).

That's an interesting discussion topic. Do you guys think there's any legal/criminal related situation were this thing's use would be appropriate?

In any case, I'm somewhat skeptical to even believe this thing actually exists, although I did do a google search and there were a few other sources. I would be curious to see for myself how accurately it draws these things.

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Originally Posted by skunkjar

Great Brittan is lucky- they have Torchwood to take alien technology and make it available to us humans... lol.

I thought this took place in U.C. Berkely?

Edit: Saw some youtube videos on things related to this (though all the videos were a bit old, and seemed to capture this things' predecessors more than anything).

Right now, in regards to the ethics of using this in crime cases, I think that it should be the defendants choice whether he/she wants to be "read" or not. Refusing to be read shouldn't be taken as evidence against the defendant, but I do believe that it would be good if people could use this to prove themselves innocent. (Though this isn't exactly related to the original topic, I believe that it is much much worse to have an innocent person being found guilty than it is to not find the real criminal. I would gladly trade not catching 10 murderers if it meant saving 1 person from being wrongfully convicted.)

C_T

I hate to say this, but its total bullshit.

I've been working with eeg and brainwaves for 9yrs and you cannot do that. What you would have to do is read the receptors in the brain and make the image from the receptors, not the brainwaves.

I predict you would need nanobots floating around in the brain which would read the pathways being activated (the memory/thought) and would communicate to an outside computer that would interpret and display.

Doesn't sound too far fetched really.

WorldBuilder

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Originally Posted by C_T

I hate to say this, but its total bullshit.

I've been working with eeg and brainwaves for 9yrs and you cannot do that. What you would have to do is read the receptors in the brain and make the image from the receptors, not the brainwaves.

I predict you would need nanobots floating around in the brain which would read the pathways being activated (the memory/thought) and would communicate to an outside computer that would interpret and display.

Doesn't sound too far fetched really.

From the videos I've seen on youtube about an earlier program that seems like a less sophisticated version of this one, they scanned (through x-ray or something of that nature I'm guessing) the brains physical reaction when subjects were shown specific images or something, and the program would detect similar changes when the same images were shown to subjects. After the program had recorded the changes that occur with specific images, subjects would be asked to think about a specific object, and the program would then be able to detect what object the subject was thinking about, with great accuracy.

I assume that what this article is talking about is simply a more advanced version of the same idea.

nepalnt21

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Originally Posted by WorldBuilder

That's an interesting discussion topic. Do you guys think there's any legal/criminal related situation were this thing's use would be appropriate?

absolutely not

Quantumbrujo

I had thought about this when I was just a kid but never thought it possible.I think it is really cool that they can do that, but shouldn't go there .some things are best left alone.like cloning and things like that,that are scientifically fascinating but morally wrong.

WorldBuilder

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absolutely not

I think that it should only be used with the permission of whoever's going to be read.

If I were a not-guilty suspect for a murder case, I would definitely want a way out of the situation. I don't see how this could cause any harm if it isn't used to invade anyone's privacy and only used to prove innocence for those who agree to have their minds read.

Forcing something like that on anyone is completely out of the question though.