pokkets says: They say it's like a magician picking your card. That is a trick. This is real. The actual chance of a computer picking the right card of 120 is 0.8% do that 120 times worst result of two was 72% I wonder how long before technology like this is used in things like the 'War on crime' perhaps 'thought crime' isn't far off. The way these technologies are advanced at great speed it can't be long and the definition of a 'crime' is bound to need revision. I hardly need to mention what uses 'National Security' may have for it. fMRI is at once one of the most exciting and terrifying bits of technology we've ever devised. I saw a clip I think it was by abailart, where a Dr V.J. Samarakan. (I think that was his name) Had used MRI scanners to pinpoint areas in the brain of patients with conditions where the where the line between two sections of the brain, rather than being distinct, had caused a 'crossover' of certain functions. One of the most common examples is synesthesia, where you can taste colours, or smell sounds, but he used the scanners to pinpoint the barriers and their breakdown in patients that had conditions that involved other parts of the brains. The potential seems to be unlimited, and showed clearly problems that had a physical basis, which may once have been veiled by an ineffective medicatio... I made a few mistakes I should correct. For some reason I remembered, Green and abailart's icon is green. I can't read my own memory The clip title was 'A journey to the center of your mind' The Doctors name is Vilayanur Ramachandran and the clip was by by arifsali 10-30-2007 I'm not even sure he even mentions MRI scanners Maybe I had that impression because of the pictures I remember from the video, but I have little doubt he uses hem extensively in his research Another thing that occurred to me that is unlikely to be relevant, He sounds like he got his Doctorate at the University of Edinburgh. |
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