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Thought Police: How Brain Scans Could Invade Your Private Life (Machines Read Your Mind)
Popular Mechanics ^ | November 2007 | Jeff Wise

Posted on 11/07/2007 6:30:31 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat

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Big Brother around the corner, or amazingly useful tool for crime prevention and solving problems?
1 posted on 11/07/2007 6:30:32 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Talk about worrying about something that might happen? Like we don’t have enough to worry about? Someone is gonna read our minds? lol


2 posted on 11/07/2007 6:37:36 PM PST by CometBaby (You can twist perceptions .. reality won't budge!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I dont doubt in the last days (governments) will try to controll what people think, and not just what content they are exposed to!


3 posted on 11/07/2007 6:39:02 PM PST by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Probably a very useful tool for more accurately assessing whether comatose/brain-damaged patients have any real awareness.


4 posted on 11/07/2007 6:39:22 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Recovering_Democrat
If we could access every neuron, and spent long enough analyzing the data, we could figure out in great detail what a person is seeing or thinking.”

Not going to happen.

5 posted on 11/07/2007 6:41:25 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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"I dont doubt in the last days (governments) will try to controll what people think, and not just what content they are exposed to!"

I is already happening. It's called "Hate Crime" legislation...

6 posted on 11/07/2007 6:42:44 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Chairman Hillary’s plan for us - a control chip forceably inserted into our skull. Secondly, with all this infighting and talk of a third party, this is what will happen to us./Just Asking - seoul62...........


7 posted on 11/07/2007 6:45:03 PM PST by seoul62 (e)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

What will they do when they see all the hate in the minds of liberals?

Destroy the machine, no doubt.


8 posted on 11/07/2007 6:47:34 PM PST by airborne (Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I challenge any man or machine to try and read my mind.

Just make sure you stand a safe distance from them. It could get ugly and messy.

Dick Cheney shivers at my thoughts.

9 posted on 11/07/2007 6:49:49 PM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Thomas Aquinas and other medieval theologians taught that angels and demons can tell what we are thinking ABOUT, and can even influence our thoughts, but they cannot tell directly what we have JUDGED or DECIDED, i.e., which way the intellect and will have turned, because what we are thinking about is evident by what occupies the imagination, which is a physical faculty, but judging and choosing are spiritual acts. This is consistent with what this scientist says: It’s difficult to see what a person has judged or decided, but easier to tell what he is looking at or thinking about.

Chalk one up for the scientific value of Medieval Angelology—which, btw, had nothing to do with the heads of pins.


10 posted on 11/07/2007 6:56:16 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Just mythoughts

Don’t be to sure of that. Work has already been done on fluorescent neurons.


11 posted on 11/07/2007 7:04:51 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Just mythoughts
Pathfinding and Neuronal Migration

12 posted on 11/07/2007 7:16:35 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

As long as it can’t slap my face...


13 posted on 11/07/2007 7:17:34 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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Someone is gonna read our minds? lol

No. The problem isn't that someone is "going to read our minds. lol." The problem is that some geniuses with whole cloth are going to convince the emperor that they have a machine that can read minds. And he's gonna want everyone to get one.

And, like the witch trials of old Salem, the accusations will be completely defenseless. Imagine, "No, I was not thinking such a thought."

"Application denied on grounds of Thought Profile."

"Psycholigical Score indicates 83% possibility of criminal behavior in high stress situations. Can't hire that person."

Just use your imagination a little bit, and you'll thank God it's still a fairy tale at the moment.

The nightmare Orwell never had. On the horizon. May God help us.

14 posted on 11/07/2007 7:34:11 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (keep the heat on the hillary.)
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A few nights ago I had a nightmare Hillary was doing brain surgery on me, while I was strapped down. Maybe I need to spend less time on FR.


15 posted on 11/07/2007 7:39:40 PM PST by Quackattack
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Not all that surprising. About fifteen years ago I attended a seminar where the presenter described an experiement where a monkey was given a does of radioactive glucose and was made to stare at a pattern so that more glucose was burned in parts of the brain corresponding to the pattern. The monkey then "volunteered to have its metabolism reduced to zero" and the pattern could be seen in the analysis of the levels of radiation in the brain cells.

This just seems to eliminate the need to remove the brain.

16 posted on 11/07/2007 8:22:16 PM PST by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...

Research indicates dogs have some ability to read minds
BrainMysteries.com | Nov 7 2007 | staff reporter
Posted on 11/07/2007 11:03:14 AM EST by Daffynition
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1922273/posts


17 posted on 11/07/2007 8:59:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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thanks, bfl


18 posted on 11/07/2007 9:27:21 PM PST by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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“bfl”?


19 posted on 11/08/2007 1:45:10 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: Quackattack

It was no dream, Hillary had you on her mother ship....;)


20 posted on 11/08/2007 2:53:14 AM PST by mdmathis6
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