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Scientists Predicting Intentions

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the science-of-mind-reading dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us German scientists claim to have the means of predicting decisions of high level mental activity. "In the past, experts had been able to detect decisions about making physical movements in advance. But researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now, for the first time, identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity _ in this case, adding versus subtracting."

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  1. Asimov anyone? by purify0583 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This sounds very similar to "psychohistory" as discussed in Asimov's Foundation series. Now if only we could predict what random nation Bush is going to invade next... Suggested tag : psychohistory

  2. what are George Bush's intentions??? by mozkill · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We need to run that thing on George Bush. On the other hand, I guess this device only measures "high level" brain activity, and George has none, evidently.

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