"The brain scan that can read people's intentions"

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A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act

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The positive prospects for this are interesting, like mind-controlled computers, artificial linbs and machinery, but the security and law enforcement side of it seems positively orwell-like in practice. This is, of course, my opinion on this.

What do you think?

 

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The positive prospects for this are interesting, like mind-controlled computers, artificial linbs and machinery, but the security and law enforcement side of it seems positively orwell-like in practice. This is, of course, my opinion on this.

What do you think?

I think thats mostly a waste of research money. plugging in a robotic hand for someone to use takes years of practice to use it and costs lots of money. Trying to crack someones conscious is like looking in to a random sector in memory (thats allocated) on a computer and knowing exactly what the values represent and do. Information sometimes changes from one neuron to the next, so you can't just eavesdrop on one neuron. Information also doesn't all pass on to one neuron.

Why have mind controlled computers when you can have computers controlling themselves? If the computer doesn't have enough logic to control itself then how would you control it with ease?