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Would you agree to have your thoughts examined?
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May 29th, 2010
A team of scientists in the United States say they have been able to read people’s thoughts on a limited basis:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4715327.stm
Would you agree to allow your thoughts to be scanned the way people’s bodies are now scanned at airports, assuming that everyone else—including politicians—was subjected to the same scanning? What about thought-scanning in court? Would you agree to have thoughts scanned in the case of criminal activity?
If it became possible to distribute mind-reading machines to the general population, would you want the ability to read everyone else’s thoughts in exchange for them being able to read all of yours?
Does the prospect of a society without secrets scare you or excite you?
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