Sep 19, 2008
mind reading system
‘Indian neurosurgeon peers into a woman’s brain, finds guilt’ - That’s one hell of a title for a post from Engadget that got my attention.
“This is pure Philip K. Dick: in June a judge in India found a woman guilty of murdering her former fiancé and sentenced her to life in prison.
The smoking gun?
Test results obtained using the Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature test (BEOS) developed by Indian neuroscientist Champadi Raman Mukundan. The BEOS software uses an EEG to determine whether the subject is recalling specific details of a crime as they are being read aloud. BEOS “works” because as the crime’s details are recited to a subject, their brain lights up in specific regions — the areas that (in theory) show measurable changes when experiences are relived. According to Mukundan, the system can distinguish between peoples’ memories of events they witnessed and deeds they committed.
Gee, now that we have the technology to read criminal’s minds and predict crimes we’ll be expecting a crime-free society any minute now.”
Now, that is scary….
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Gee, I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if the Malaysian police force has already been equipped with such a technology. I have a strong sense that they spare no cost on beefing up their security system.
Minority ethnic people may be living in perilous times, what with such forms of violation at the disposal of the authorities who may or may not have the integrity and self-control to use it wisely and righteously.
Judging from the rapacious behavior even from people in authority, we should feel quite worried for our future in this country.
Even leaders of community or religious leaders may not be above conspiring to use a human being like a machine for the novelty, sense of importance not to mention the financial gain it could afford them.
Hemmm.. sounds so minority report. Then again… pity the polices as they will all be out of job.
Alan: Yeah, and it’ll be one of the hottest debatable title of the century.
Maybe sooner or later the world will really become like Tom Cruise’s movie – Minority Report.
Pre-Crime and what knot…..