Comments on: US Army wants mind reading computer

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:37:33 +0000

There was a really good book called “The Truth Machine” where everybody ran around with brain monitors, but only they had access to it, unless it was subpoenaed by the courts. That way you could prove your innocence (or prove yourself guilty) and there was no question of “lying” anymore. It was a good book that kinda pointed out the pros and cons of this kind of thing. I forget who wrote it though, it’s been 6 or 7 years since I read it.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:50:30 +0000

Time to put on my tin-foil hat!

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:41:27 +0000

I keep waiting for them to make a machine that can record and play back a person’s experiences like they had in the movies Brainscan and Strange Days. It would give a whole meaning to the phrase “celebrity sex tape”.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:31:30 +0000

^^ You start by reading the minds of neurologically intact people, because their brains are nice and healthy and normal and predictable, then you try to see what you can do for the stroke victims.

You’d have thought so, wouldn’t you?

Meanwhile, if you can pin down certain aspects of certain functions, you’d perhaps end up with a higher-tech lie-detector which would be, you might say, a kind of mind reading.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:21:49 +0000

Yup.
Turns out the brain is far more complicated than anybody dreamed. And every new thing they discover about the brain multiplies our understanding of its complexity.
That doesn’t make any sense. People with brain injurys are HARDER. Their language centers are disrupted. This magic neuron where the word rabbit lives has been destroyed, and the brain re-wired itself to compensate so now its in the temporal lobe on the other side of the brain entirely or something. You start by reading the minds of neurologically intact people, because their brains are nice and healthy and normal and predictable, then you try to see what you can do for the stroke victims.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:41:13 +0000

I don’t quite get why this is such breaking news. The science of trying to read minds has been going on since World War II (with absolutely zero success, by the way).

By: chronoss

chronoss — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:18:42 +0000

this shows how facist the US army has become.
hitler would love this kind of thing…..
NOW anyone not with us or who wishes to bring concerns can be found out and TERMINATED.