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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

With a simple scan of your brain at rest, scientists can now guess whether [singularityhub.com] — on average — you are naughty or nice.

“We have now begun to see really strong evidence of a connection between measures of brain function, connectivity and many aspects of people’s lives and personality,” says lead author Dr. Stephen Smith, a biomedical engineer at the University of Oxford.

The surprisingly strong correlations, published last week in Nature Neuroscience, are the first to emerge from the ambitious Human Connectome Project (HCP), a global effort that seeks to map all the pathways between the brain’s hundreds of regions and millions of neurons, and then to relate those connectivity patterns to personality and behavior.

Personal brain scan result: bad to the bone.

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