The brain scan that can read people’s intentions
A team of famous neuroscientists has developed a new technique that allows to look inside a person’s brain and forecast peoples behaviour and intentions.
According to the Guardian:
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 that scientists have succeded in reading the intentions of a human person.
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.
This new technique opened the discussion about the ability to probe people’s minds again and raises serious ethical issues. The main question is, how will brain-reading technology be used in the future?
see The Guardian
