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Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the you-might-be-up-to-something dept.

Vainglorious Coward writes "Reality continues to catch up with Nineteen Eighty-Four with the announcement of the development of a brain scanner that can read a person's intentions. 'It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,' said the leader of the project, Professor John-Dylan Haynes . Demonstrating his own mastery of doublethink, Haynes continued 'We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.'"

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  1. Re: Minority Report and other Sci-Fi by timmarhy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    israel - it's whole purpose is to be the jewish "homeland", and you can't live there if you aren't

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  2. Germany, for one by srussia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There, you must believe in the Holocaust.

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    1. Re:Germany, for one by QuickFox · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Denying the Holocaust isn't "freedom of speech", it's a hateful lie, and you are a hateful liar. Not necessarily. Lying is when you say something that you know is untrue. If you sincerely believe in what you're saying, it's not a lie.

      This is best illustrated in the online debates before the Iraq war. The Americans who parroted their government and media propaganda were not lying, because they sincerely believed in the propaganda. However the US government and media were obviously lying -- the whole world outside the US knew about the catastrophic chaos that would inevitably follow, the skyrocketing terrorist recruitment, the very high probability of civil war, and so on. The US government and media couldn't avoid knowing about this since it was everywhere, so there's no doubt that they were lying.

      Similarly, Americans who parrot their government and media propaganda about global warming are not lying. Strange as it may seem they sincerely believe in what they're saying. Of course their embarrassment will be much greater than the Iraq war embarrassment, since the catastrophe will be much greater. They shouldn't be accused of lying, they should be pitied.
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