Airports Will Be Scanning Brains In Only A Few Years

We are only few years away from creating a dictionary of thought patterns that can basically read your mind. Scientist are rapidly building the Code Bank that will fingerprint your intentions.  In a few years you will be asked to remove your hat at the airport or federal building and your brain will be scanned to identify your intentions for security reasons.

Big brother is deeply involved in this project and has formed a task force at Langley to identify means and applications.  The ultimate goal is take the traditional MRI techniques to new heights including satellite brain surveillance.

 







John-Dylan Haynes     The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences-Leipzig GE

DECODING MENTAL STATES FROM HUMAN BRAIN ACTIVITY: Is it possible to predict what a person is thinking based alone on their current brain activity? This project investigates ways to decode and predict a person’s thoughts based from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Such “thought reading” can reveal how information is neurally encoded in the brain. The idea is that it is only possible to decode a thought if one knows the correct code. Such research has many potential application, as for example in detection of deception, in the control of computers and artificial prostheses by brain activity, or even (more controversial) in market research.