Monday, February 7, 2011

MRI -the future of mind reading-


MRI is a machine used to see your brain and scan it while thinking. It is similar to an x-ray but it not only shows the bone and hard surfaces of the body but also the soft tissue. This astonishing new technology even allows us to observe the brain while it is at work. Light appears in the areas where most activity is resent at that time, which allows a sort of mind reading. Scientists have made experiments of the capability of an MRI. They would place someone inside the machine where they would tell the person to think of an object and later study where the brain lightens up. After knowing how the brain looks like when thinking of a precise object you can kind of mind read what they’re thinking by the pattern in the brain. It was very interesting and exiting to see the computer figure out the objects by analyzing its activity brain patterns. This excellent technology has helped improved the knowledge and understanding of the brain immensely opening the opportunity to study it in its work. This machine still has room for improvement making it capable in the future to be able to read entire thoughts and intentions instead of just objects. It was also discovered that the MRI can tract if you recognize a place that you had visited before. This will later need more protection and restrictions to who can be allow to use such a powerful weapon as mind reading trough the MRI.

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