BRAIN SCANNER SCANS YOUR INTENTIONS

NOTE TO SELF: Don't think too much

A new discovery by scientists could have a scary potential for human-kind.

World-leading neuroscientists have developed a technique allowing them to delve inside a person's brain to gauge their intentions before they act.

This is a scary proposition.

According to an article written in The Guardian in February, the research breaks new ground and raises controversial ethical questions as to how brain reading can or will be used in the future. High resolution brain scans were used to identify patterns of activity before translating them into thoughts.

It works whereby a computer learns unique patterns of brain activity or signatures to correspond to different thoughts. It scans the brain to look for these signatures and predicts what the person is thinking.

Still laughing at people who use foil on their head to stop the enemy from reading their thoughts?

Again, this is a very scary proposition when you think about it. It's one thing to think a thought so to speak, but entirely a whole other issue to actually act on it. For example and thinking down the line, if this type of technology was used by the various law enforcement agencies during questioning, how could interrogaters differentiate a random negative thought to doing an actual criminal act? Or to put it in simplistic terms, a dog barking may annoy neighbors causing them to think bad thoughts but that's as far as it goes for most people. It stops at the thought level and remains there.

Researchers are honing the technique to distinguish passing thoughts and intentions.

Pass the foil please.

Read more about this discovery and the technical aspects of how it works here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2009229,00.html