~s:a:n:i:t:y~ on 12/2/2007 at 09:34
Quote Posted by demagogue
Mental-state crimes can't exist any more than any other kind of "status" crime (like being a gang member, communist or whatever).
Or a Republican.
Shayde on 12/2/2007 at 10:19
or an AMERICAN.
oh no she didn't!
jbairdjr on 12/2/2007 at 10:36
Quote Posted by ~s:a:n:i:t:y~
Or a Republican.
Or a Democrat. :cheeky:
Mortal Monkey on 12/2/2007 at 11:24
Or an Internaut.
Rogue Keeper on 12/2/2007 at 11:41
This is the ethical debate I hoped for.
fett on 12/2/2007 at 13:20
OR YOU'RE MOM
Rogue Keeper on 12/2/2007 at 13:24
Fett... I'm sorry but I'm not your mom, I swear! :o
Gingerbread Man on 12/2/2007 at 15:42
oh god they can read my intentions milliseconds before I scratch my nose or move my arm! what will I do the lead time they have is very impressive. why, if there was a policeman following me 24/7 while I sat in an mri machine I'd be caught before I did anything :o
also wtf we've been doing this for a decade, kids. It's the single most important facet of cortical mapping technique since Wilder Penfield started poking epileptics in the brain.
Briareos H on 12/2/2007 at 16:05
Saying that we can extract conscious and even unconscious representations from brain activity alone is not a decade old GBM. I haven't read the paper yet (need to get it at the library) but it seems rather interesting.
Obvious methodology re. the OP would be to submit a photo of a person and see what concepts it evokes consciously and/or unconsciously in the subject (which doesn't need a 24/7 surveillance btw). But it is still inherently flawed : what I thought to be Strangeblue's very nicely done point is that anyone with sufficient passion and involvement in a given idea will provoke misleading results. My girlfriend evoking a rotten carcass doesn't make me a killer, I may just be some quite abnormal gore fanatic (either that or I'm really unlucky).
