Scientists have been developing tools that can read your mind. Not, fortunately, in a way that they can display the images like they do in Strange Days but enough so that skilled analysts can tell what scene you are viewing from a limited subset.
How it works is you watch a scene and this makes you neurons fire in a unique way. When you watch it again by remembering it your neurons replay this and fire the same way again. So the analyst can predict what you are thinking about. It’s a long way from being perfect but its a step in the right direction for mind reading.
Remembering of course that mind reading is a double edged sword. One our government would love to be able to do.
Although we can see from the article mind reading is nowhere near us yet I was wondering how well this would do as a lie detector. Surely it must be easier to tell a lie from the truth. Perhaps because a lie doesn’t involve a real memory but a made up one or there is a chunk of neurons that light up when a lie is told. If it was simple enough to detect then you wouldn’t even need an expert analyst to use it. A simple display would suffice.
Now that would be interesting. Justice would be served as in the witness box at court and during police investigations the truth would quickly be sorted from the lies. It would certainly make politics a lot more interesting if everyone was fitted with one at PMQs or during press statements. Of course it would quickly be picked up for other government uses. Have you smoked today? Did you speed at any point coming into work? Have you fiddled your expenses, No wait!, that one would be an excluded question for some reason
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you talk to them.
Mind reading scanners
Scientists have been developing tools that can read your mind. Not, fortunately, in a way that they can display the images like they do in Strange Days but enough so that skilled analysts can tell what scene you are viewing from a limited subset.
How it works is you watch a scene and this makes you neurons fire in a unique way. When you watch it again by remembering it your neurons replay this and fire the same way again. So the analyst can predict what you are thinking about. It’s a long way from being perfect but its a step in the right direction for mind reading.
Remembering of course that mind reading is a double edged sword. One our government would love to be able to do.
Although we can see from the article mind reading is nowhere near us yet I was wondering how well this would do as a lie detector. Surely it must be easier to tell a lie from the truth. Perhaps because a lie doesn’t involve a real memory but a made up one or there is a chunk of neurons that light up when a lie is told. If it was simple enough to detect then you wouldn’t even need an expert analyst to use it. A simple display would suffice.
Now that would be interesting. Justice would be served as in the witness box at court and during police investigations the truth would quickly be sorted from the lies. It would certainly make politics a lot more interesting if everyone was fitted with one at PMQs or during press statements. Of course it would quickly be picked up for other government uses. Have you smoked today? Did you speed at any point coming into work? Have you fiddled your expenses, No wait!, that one would be an excluded question for some reason