Minority Report Trends and Technologies Watch, item #5
Here's another installment of the"Minority Report" thread, this time from the BBC's Discovery program (sorry... programme). Pamela Rutherford interviews Irene Tracy (Oxford University), John Dylan-Haynes (Max Planck Institute), and Tom Mitchell and Marcel Just (Carnegie-Mellon) about neuroimaging, neurosemantics and neuroethics.
"Once something new like this is discovered, there's no going back. With modern brain imaging and modern computational techniques, we can identify the patterns that correspond to particular thoughts. We always knew thought was something in the brain, but now we know what it is. We can measure it, we can identify it, and we can tell when another one is coming along." - Tom Mitchell, CMU
What if it was possible to read someone’s mind, their exact thoughts by reading out their patterns of brain activity?
In this week’s Discovery Pamela Rutherford explores how rapid advances in brain scanning technology have started to get a window on some of our innermost thoughts; from predicting our intentions to interpreting the meaning of exactly what we’re thinking about.
As brain scanning technology advances, what sounds like a science fiction scenario is becoming closer to reality. MORE >>
Labels: minority report, neuroethics, neuroimaging, neurosemantics
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