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Please place your brain on the ink pad and then roll it slowly to the right:
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:13:21 -0500
Please place your brain on the ink pad and then roll it slowly to the right: A new technology called "brain fingerprinting," <http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=594&ncid=594&e=2& ;u=/nm/20030211/hl_nm/brain_fingerprinting_dc> which works by analyzing the spikes in electrical activity in the brain when it responds to something it recognizes, may someday become the next big thing in intelligence gathering. "From a scientific perspective, we can definitively say that brain fingerprinting could have substantial benefits in identifying terrorists or in exonerating people accused of being terrorists," says Lawrence Farwell, the neuroscientist who developed the technique. Brain fingerprinting has already been used to help solve at least two murder cases. Still, skeptics dismiss it as ineffective. "It's pure snake oil," Barry Steinhardt, who directs a technology program for the American Civil Liberties Union, told Reuters. "There's no evidence you can determine evil intent or anything else from brain fingerprinting. It's the 21st century version of the lie detector test, which also doesn't work very well." ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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