The ultimate privacy invasion coming to a hospital near you.

[=sw=warlord]

I realize this article is a tad old but I decided to go looking for it after a small debate I had with a friend recently and been looking for more about this that's more recent.



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. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/feb/09/neuroscience.ethicsofscience)

[Rorschach]

Don't give a fuck about reading my thoughts. If they actually find a way to pull this shit off and it leads to live recording and playback of dreams, I'd jump on it in half a minute. Last week I had a dream that me and Indiana Jones were fighting Nazi zombies on the side of a hill made of ash during a rainstorm, next thing I know I was in an airport during a blizzard talking to a bear dressed like the monopoly man. I don't know where that came from, but it was awesome and I want to watch it again.

[ThePlague]

Pre crime.

[p0lar_bear]

Pre crime.

If this turned into anything like Minority Report, that would be terrible.

On the other hand, I'm with Rorschach on this as well. Dream recording would be friggin' awesome.

[TeeKup]

Dream Reclamation Device?

I like it.

[Kornman00]

Before the numbers flashed up, they were given a brain scan using a technique called functional magnetic imaging resonance. The researchers then used a software that had been designed to spot subtle differences in brain activity to predict the person's intentions with 70% accuracy.


The study revealed signatures of activity in a marble-sized part of the brain called the medial prefrontal cortex that changed when a person intended to add the numbers or subtract them.


Because brains differ so much, the scientists need a good idea of what a person's brain activity looks like when they are thinking something to be able to spot it in a scan, but researchers are already devising ways of deducing what patterns are associated with different thoughts.

I don't see this being able to do anything elaborate (adding or subtracting from a number? mice nuts) within the next decade, and I don't see any real worry if it has to preprocess a person's thinking patterns. The best I ever see this getting is generalities, nothing specific like recording your dreams (unless you wore something from the day you were born to process all the changes in your brain, then maybe a machine could process your thoughts in richer detail).

[Bodzilla]

I dont like the potential for shit like minority report in this simply because i have a very erratic thought process.

i constantly think of random things such as knives and what not, but it's all situation butterfly effect kind of stuff.
where in between important decisions i make and analyse scenario's, such as if i stabbed this person, where i'd most likely get them, the end results, who it'd effect we're they're most likely to be buried, the familys emtional distress, my sentencing and i do this nearly instantly ect ect.
and thats somethign as simple as me picking up a knife while washing up.
and i have no intention or malice at all to even carry out something like that, but i think of the scene behind it.

and i do this with everything, every moment of every day.

a window into my though process would make me seem like a sociopath when i'm not. :/




In terms of medical stuff i'm all for it, for things like determining what a person in a coma or suffering from an internal head injury is thinking or if they're thinking that would be tremendous, but these kinds of things have a perverse habit of sneaking it's way into the law.

[Donut]

^ i do that sometimes too, but its usually when somebody is talking to me, and its fantastic stuff like riding through the desert on horseback like in that one slayer music video.
nothing says "im interested in what youre saying" more than zoning out and thinking about slayer.

[thehoodedsmack]

Would have to be calibrated for each individual, who would have to be stationary in the imaging machine. Not at all a threat to the security of people's thoughts.

[Kornman00]

Would have to be calibrated for each individual, who would have to be stationary in the imaging machine. Not at all a threat to the security of people's thoughts.
Unless the gov't declares people pokemon, and the CIA all of a sudden become pokemon masters and try to catch 'em all!

[TVTyrant]

Unless the gov't declares people pokemon, and the CIA all of a sudden become pokemon masters and try to catch 'em all!
I want to be the very best...

[Mr Buckshot]

I see a market for super profitable yet extremely low budget pornography here.

(imagine banging *insert celeb here*)

(use this tech)

(personalized porn video ready to go)

[Sanctus]

...but i think of the scene behind it.

and i do this with everything, every moment of every day.

a window into my though process would make me seem like a sociopath when i'm not. :/


This
I do it all the time and I don't even know why.

[Cortexian]

I see a market for super profitable yet extremely low budget pornography here.

(imagine banging *insert celeb here*)

(use this tech)

(personalized porn video ready to go)
I'm okay with this.

[Patrickssj6]

at hospitals the look inside your anus...not sure how they could penetrate privacy any further

[Kornman00]

goatse, goatdo

[Arteen]

at hospitals the look inside your anus...not sure how they could penetrate privacy any further
Thanks for putting this in perspective.

[Sanctus]

Yes but only the doctors looking inside your anus see the inside of your anus, not an unknown number of figures behind a monitor..

[TVTyrant]

at hospitals the look inside your anus...not sure how they could penetrate privacy any further
That was very punny