The brain scan that can read people's intentions

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2009229,00.html

 

 

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.

The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability

to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises

serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used

in the future.

 

The team used high-resolution brain scans to identify patterns of

activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts, revealing

what a person planned to do in the near future. It is the first time

scientists have succeeded in reading intentions in this way.

 

 

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Another piece of the article had this to say:

 

" Being able to read thoughts as they arise in a person's mind could

lead to computers that allow people to operate email and the internet

using thought alone, and write with word processors that can predict

which word or sentence you want to type. "

 

Imagine that!

 

Silver

 

Nisargadatta , " adithya_comming "

<adithya_comming wrote:

>

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2009229,00.html

>

>

> 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.

> The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability

> to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises

> serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be

used

> in the future.

>

> The team used high-resolution brain scans to identify patterns of

> activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts,

revealing

> what a person planned to do in the near future. It is the first

time

> scientists have succeeded in reading intentions in this way.

>

>

> ...

>