I agree with both concerns and hopes for this...
it has much potential to serve good.
It also could be used in the future to convict thought crimes...
except that thought crimes are not crimes and are really just fantasy.
It would be very difficult indeed to prosecute someone for something they haven't and perhaps would never do.

I don't know anyone who hasn't fantasized about commiting a crime...
whether it be killing someone if they could truly get a free ride (like presidents supposidly do)
or robbing a bank whenever they were broke...
these are novel and fleeting thoughts that have no base in reality or consideration... they are jokes the mind plays on itself...
so as long as a legal system recognized that, then all the good could still come of it...

there are animals in existence that defy evolution by their abilities/traits and there are animals that support the theory by "similarities" with other animals. unless evolution can maintain it's truth in all cases of the creatures of this earth, your statement is lacking and ignorant. maybe this will happen some day, but today is not that day.

btw, our bodies can accept organs from pigs. but we are not on the same branch of evolution. or are we?
daved

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Originally posted by Dasher
there are animals in existence that defy evolution by their abilities/traits and there are animals that support the theory by "similarities" with other animals. unless evolution can maintain it's truth in all cases of the creatures of this earth, your statement is lacking and ignorant. maybe this will happen some day, but today is not that day.

btw, our bodies can accept organs from pigs. but we are not on the same branch of evolution. or are we?
daved

Ha yeah try and prove evolution and until then its not true. Proving the universe was made in 6 days by an ominpotent being is a lot easier. Its written in the worlds most popular book!

I think that the title should be changed, there's no mention of government usage in the article. Replace the word "Government" with "Doctors."

If what they are saying is in fact true then this link clearly shows when combined that the theory of evolution over creation is correct.

My bird does the same thing. He can tell my mood through my body language and reacts appropriately. Does this prove humans are also very closely linked to cockatiels? My dog was the same way before she died, too.

How does, to coin a cliche, reading someone like a book in monkeys, in combination with being able to read thoughts through an MRI, prove evolution is true?

Originally posted by junglejake
How does, to coin a cliche, reading someone like a book in monkeys, in combination with being able to read thoughts through an MRI, prove evolution is true?

It doesnt prove anything, let the instigators keep on instigating.

I think this does sound like a real cool technology. I dont how long it will take to be made into something pratical, or if I will live long enuff to see it happen. I do think the first place it will be used is probably the military. With all the research being pored into unmaned craft and vehicles I can see the military jumping all over this.

This sounds a lot like the Sony patent for writing imagery to the brain, instead of reading from it.

I'd be more worried about mind control from incessant media, constantly watching television, sticking an ipod in your ears, and assuming anything the press reports is honest truth-regardles of it being left or right agenda.

Interesting.

I am always amused when Science finally figures out how to do something with technology they had always claimed was impossible for "Organics" to do, if not just plain "Impossible!".

At the risk of crossing forums here, may I point out that "Science" has always pooh-poohed even the remote possibility of Telepathy existing (unless some one was getting a multi-million dollar Govt grant to 'study the potential military/intelligence applications...'). But now, if you toss in an uber-tech piece of gadgetry like an MRI, suddenly the impossible becomes the latest thing?

Still, I'll give them credit. They do seem to be on the right track. Think about it, guys.....Telepathy is mind to mind communication. The human mind, if a product of the brain, is the result of an electro-magnetic field (although which came first, Mind or Mind-field, is open to debate) and as anyone who knows how a tape recorder works will tell you, electromagnetic fields CAN transport information. The "image" stored magnetically on the tape is "read" by the elctromagnetized head of the recorder.

Could telepathy be no more "paranormal" than one mind allowing itself to be influenced by the electromagnetic emissions of another human mind? Certainly, in my experience, this is one of the techniques so-called "Direct Reader/Phsycics" use. Yes, NLP and "cues" are also used, but only by the charaletans.

I think without any equipment people can allready read minds and/or sense feelings. There's body language, and there is just a sense of things.

You ever walked into a room and knew you were being talked about, or you knew someone was mad at you or such things? Some people might have some reality on this? If you haven't experienced it, no big deal, perhaps at some point you will experience it.

And perhaps you can pull mental pictures and thoughts from a person's mind with a machine? (Not talking about brain by the way)

Let's just say you can do such a thing with a machine of some sort. Think about all those wild, crazy, and destructive fantasies you may have. Heck, I'd say a lot of people have crazy stuff cross their minds, I do. Would you want this technology to be used in such a way as to label you as crazy or insane, even if you didn't act on a single one of those thoughts? Some of us are sane enough to know that those thoughts are just that, "thoughts." And then there are those who act on those thoughts and kill people, burn down buildings, walk naked in public, and on and on. With such technology would have to come responsibility. You judge a person on his actions, and the results of his actions. So you couldn't just read a person's thoughts and label him as destructive. He might just have a lot of garbage in his mind that he has decided isn't really a part of who he is.

Troy

I'm safe, my mind has been completely blank for years I think I did alot of acid in my youth but I can't remember anymore

Right there with you..... I think - wait a sec what were we talking about?

I think that the title should be changed, there's no mention of government usage in the article. Replace the word "Government" with "Doctors."

You are correct - It does not mention government in the article. I purposely said the government. Reason? You think the government isn't going to scoop this technology up? Face it, if the technology really does exist, the government will absolutely use it.

MRI technology is pretty difficult to use in a stealthy way, the magnets are extremely powerful.....


Even though no metal objects are supposed to be in the testing area, because they will be pulled toward the 10- ton machine by its powerful electromagnet, a metal oxygen tank somehow made it into the examination room.
The tank, about the size of a fire extinguisher, became magnetized, then flew through the air at 20 to 30 feet per second

Point well taken - touche`
However remember the first computers? They took up an entire room, and had what we would call today - no technology at all. Remember calculators? They started out huge, and very expensive - now I have a 5 dollar calculator that has more technology that the lunar lander did.
It's only a matter of time.