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Scientists Predicting Intentions
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."
...intend on welcoming our mind-reading overlords (as they well know).
My first reaction is suspicion
As I knew it would be!
Truly you have a dizzying intellect.
Adding and subtracting is "high-level" intellectual activity, now?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
... can they also predict dupes?
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Yes, this technology will far and away make crime a risky business. Whether your name is Mohammed or Jerry Maguire, this should be able to separate out the real criminals without any collateral damage. Hopefully though this stays in the hands of a few good men who make all the right moves - ones who aren't swayed by the color of money - or else our society could collapse into a war of the worlds.