DAILY DIALECTIC
March 04, 2009
"When the police stopped me for running a red light recently, I was thinking 'Don't you cops have anything better to do?' But the words that came out of my mouth were a lot more guarded... The policewoman, a tough lady smoking a cigarette, glared at me. Was she reading my mind? No, I guess not, because she only gave me a warning. But beware, in a few years she might actually carry a device that can do that. Research is rapidly advancing to allow thought-decoding through brain-scan technology, and it scares me to death. I don't want anyone else in my head, and certainly not the police... But now neuroscientists in the United States are cataloguing brain patterns to match up with actual words, sentences and intentions. One researcher explains, 'The new realization is that every thought is associated with a pattern of brain activity...'"

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