 thisnamecantbetaken says: I hardly even have a comment for once. I just can't believe what I'm reading! This must be an April Fool's joke...but we're only in January!...  We've already got fMRI, which shows that serial killers have different brain patterns from normal people. Thankfully, we're not yet subjecting citizens to these scans. To me, it's not the tool, it's how you use it. This could have incredible benefits as well! True! But it's THIS statement that has me questioning their true motives... "We'd like to get to the stage of reading thoughts," he said.Being the paranoid that I am, I can soooo easily see this new and improved technology being grossly misused. TNCBT, This was featured on Dr. Phil awhile back. I wonder what the treatment improval is: http://www.brainmattersinc.com/ Hey Deb!  I still don't like it. For diagnosing disease, fine, but for reading thoughts? I'm not liking it at all! I mean, what's good about that? So they can just hook me up and read "I think I'm depressed now??" (coz I am...) Oh I agree, but I guess they can do a better assessment of a medical condition, therefore treatment can be more tailored rather than hit and miss by symptoms only. I just wonder how much success they have had. There are so many diseases of the brain, we hardly know anything about, not to mention how to cure them. I hope that will be their first priority, before going MCA on us... But I'm not a real trusting kind of person regarding my fellow man, so... I'm still paranoid. . To me, it's not the tool, it's how you use it. Bingo. I just don't get how folks living in the freest nation in the world, none-the-less reflexively respond to such as this as though living in the former USSR. Perplexing. I just don't get how...You don't get how? By reading what they're intentions are, that's how...daaa "We'd like to get to the stage of reading thoughts," he said.Can it be any clearer?? Not to me... Yes, evidently, not to you... Sorry you're starting off the new year with depression. Hope you feel better soon. I wouldn't put the CIA past using the technology GD. Big hugs to you THCBT, bad **** happens to everyone sometimes I guess. Don't be on my case today please GD. I've had a really, really bad day and really am not in the mood. Another clip of mine will explain why. I'm just trying really hard to keep things running as normal, but today, I AM a bit sensitive, I admit, ok? So yes, I AM depressed. Big hugs back Deb Cay you say "Minority Report"? I just don't get how folks living in the freest nation in the world,If it offers you some solace just keep repeating that mantra. Thanks, Oh Wise Amphibian, but I'm not in need of solace, or mantras, for that matter. Debby, I would hope that they do put it to good use. Godfrey Daniel said:GD ... just keep in mind that the whole reason the US is the freest nation on earth -- and I don't dispute that it is -- is because a bunch of guys in the 1700s were at least as obsessive and/or paranoid as thisnamecantbetaken (no offense, thisname, I think more or less the same way) when it came to making sure that no one person, institution or group was able to amass too much power. The assumption, and historically it proves to be a pretty defensible one, is that as pow... Huge difference between paranoia and vigilance. Seems a bit extreme to me to be so frightened of power, regardless of context, and to such an extent that you commit national suicide as result. Humans are untrustworthy, and thus our institutions, but to not extend trust regardless to those institutions set up to maintain the most worthy of trust among untrustworthy human institutions is not sane. I think our imperfect institutions have, relative to all others, earned a measure of trust far beyond what is being expressed . I always knew Orwell was on to something back when he wrote that book.  @enbar You have an absolutely beautiful way with words enbar and I'm not offended in the slightest, quite the opposite. Your comments so eloquently express exactly how I'm thinking . (Will you be my press secretary please?) . @Godfrey I even agree with you too, up to a point. Vigilance is exactly what's needed constantly, constantly, constantly, but the goal being to PREVENT national / international suicide, not promote it. Governments, corporations etc. need to constantly be aware that's someones watching their every move, that someone cares about what's going on and they they will be held accountable if they step out of line.That they can't be allowed to get away with anything.... "People may be thrown in jail for being suspected terrorists on the basis of a brain scan," she told the Tribune. "Some kid may be put in the wrong educational track on the basis of a brain scan." This reminds me of "Gattaca". |
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