Reading People’s Intentions with Brain Scans
February 9th, 2007

I found this to be an interesting story about the power of technology to “read our thoughts”, or, in this case, our intentions. According to the Guardian, a brain scanner has been developed that reads people’s intentions:

Using the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and read out something that from the outside there’s no way you could possibly tell is in there. It’s like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,” said John-Dylan Haynes at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany, who led the study with colleagues at University College London and Oxford University.

Here’s the link to read the entire story.

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