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Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing

posted by martyb on Friday May 29 2015, @11:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the bias-removal-or-indoctrination? dept.

An Anonymous Coward wrote in with the news that a Sleep study raises hope for clinical treatment of racism, sexism and other biases

When the desired behavior is performed, a sound is played. When the test subjects reach deep sleep, that same sound is played repeatedly. Subjects were then more likely to perform the desired behavior.

The article, "Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep" appears in the journal Science; an abstract and full report are available.

[Original Submission - Ed.]

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:31PM (#190175)

    They're typically called problems because we don't know the solution, and if you don't know the solution, you can't say for sure that there is one. "Does P=NP?" and similar problems would no longer be problems under such a redefinition, the only "problems" would be ones for which the solution was already known, which would make them not problems at all, and real problems would no longer be addressed because they wouldn't be "problems" until their solution was known, but nobody would look for solutions since they wouldn't be problems.