On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:06:59PM +0100, Enno Gottox Boland wrote: > I really dislike the idea of mind controlled devices.
Well think of an EEG, there are such devices already which can be trained to do certain tasks (e.g. I heared some years ago that Stephen Hawking uses such device) during concentrating on something (e.g. move cursor leftwards when thinking on your girl friend, moving rightwards when doing a simple calculation, etc.) - that is not really mind control, that's simply to perform a specific input on certain kind of tasks you do with your brain. > The main problem is: If this main control device is a bidirectional > device, what could happen if somebody finds a way to hack your brain. > Something like "Remote Brainwashing". Very scary. I doubt it'll ever be possible to decypher any actual thoughts of a brain, esp. because the areas which are quite active might differ on specific thoughts depending on the individual. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
