The Brain Scan that Can Read People's Intentions

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The Brain Scan that Can Read People's Intentions

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.

"Using the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and
read out something that from the outside there's no way you could possibly
tell is in there. It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on
a wall," said John-Dylan Haynes at the Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany, who led the study with colleagues
at University College London and Oxford University.

more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2009217,00.html





Well, we knew this was coming and I love it. Who can lie now?!