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The brain scan that can read people's intentions

Very conserned: | 27.03.2007 17:38 | Technology | World

Ian Sample, science correspondent
Friday February 9, 2007
The Guardian

The brain scan that can read people's intentions


Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation

Using the technology is 'like shining a torch, looking for writing on a wall'. CT image: Charles O'Rear/Corbis

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.

See the article here:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2009217,00.html

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just the tip of the iceberg

27.03.2007 21:19

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/359453.html

the extensive report linked there discusses not only 'ordinary' electromagnetic weapons but also this kinda + related stuff. current research mainly done in the us and uk contains not only means to analyze, but also to influence brain activity.

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Call Tom Cruise

28.03.2007 00:02

Is this the plot from Minority Report?

graham


Old 'New Scientist' rehashed as column filler

28.03.2007 02:52

Most BBC and newspaper science stories are just old New Scientist stories rehashed to fill a gap on a slow newsday. Which is kind of ironic since NS itself is just an ammalgamation of headline stories from other science journals. That story you describe came out on the 9th of Februar, in the link.

The very latest story on the NS website is maybe of equal interest here:

'Chernobyl-based birds avoid radioactive nests' -
Some species around the exploded nuclear reactor choose nest sites with lower levels of background radiation, but how they know is a mystery.

(It's maybe the glowing bird skeletons in the nest ?)


But if you are looking for the plot of a sci-fi movie then how about :

France opens up its UFO files
Of the 1600 cases registered since 1954, nearly 25% are classified as "type D", meaning that "despite good or very good data and credible witnesses, we are confronted with something we can't explain"

( Type O means the case is unexplainable as it is too badly typed )

orca
- Homepage: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn11144-brain-scans-reveal-intentions-of-calculating-minds.html


re "comments": niger uranium, iraqi wmd, al q - saddam . . . .

29.03.2007 18:48

QUIT e
if your mind aint boggled, you aint paying attention
quantum scientist, pre-hiroshima.

these sceptics aint around when you need em