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CoolHand
on Monday May 15 2017, @01:58PM
from the you-didnt-just-think-at-me-did-you dept.
from the you-didnt-just-think-at-me-did-you dept.
"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind," wrote the playwright John Milton in 1634.
But, nearly 400 years later, technological advances in machines that can read our thoughts mean the privacy of our brain is under threat.
Now two biomedical ethicists are calling for the creation of new human rights laws to ensure people are protected, including "the right to cognitive liberty" and "the right to mental integrity".
Scientists have already developed devices capable of telling whether people are politically right-wing or left-wing. In one experiment, researchers were able to read people's minds to tell with 70 per cent accuracy whether they planned to add or subtract two numbers.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday May 15 2017, @03:14PM (1 child)
Well, regarding political beliefs, there's stuff like this [smithsonianmag.com]. That article has a summary of some other studies on this as well. The findings, basically:
Liberals: tend to have more brain regions light up associated with "broad" social connectedness, acceptance of risk, and social/self-awareness.
Conservatives: tend to have brain regions light up associated with "tight" social connections (family, country), more intense reactions to threats/fears, more "fight-or-flight" response activity.
I couldn't find the addition/subtraction article easily, but it doesn't surprise me because there's been a lot of brain-scan research on what happens while doing basic arithmetic.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @04:19PM
I know this. My enhanced fight-or-flight response is a direct reaction against pseudo-liberals defending any aggressor with a victim card to play. I'm not a conservative but I've edged more centrist as a result of bitter experience and now lack any confidence that "liberals" will take an intellectually or morally defensible position.
This is why I'm interested in the math research - it seems it may be simple enough to corroborate with a different hypothesis entirely.