Comments on: Mindreading No: Thought Pattern Recognition Yes

By: timethief

timethief — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:13:07 +0000

@celticmusicfan
I’m happy to hear your feedback. Thanks for commenting.

By: taney

taney — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:25:25 +0000

Hey timethief! You said you had suffered from a head injury before? How severe was it if you don’t mind me asking. Also, you should check this out! I found this a few months back. Really interesting!

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

Let me know what you think! (=

By: TC

TC — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:42:19 +0000

I am a fan of evolution and technology and embrace the novel techniques and discoveries. My one concern is that man to often fails first develop the wisdom necessary for fully understanding the implications of new technology even in the honest pursuit of a goal. As with genetic engineering and in atomic sciences. Hopefully, mankind is as rapidly developing the wisdom necessary to keep pace with the rapid, even exponential growth of technology. Sadly, it seems that is primarily where the risk lies. Furthermore, all novel technology is at some point effectively used against people of this world in negative, controlling ways and that is surely not going to end quickly. Lest we hope that with the burgeoning of the “birth” or rebirth of human consciousness during this transitional time, that we as humanity will take that collective leap to new paradigms of existence. Deep stuff I know…P.S.- I used to research & study the Hypothalamus.

By: roentarre

roentarre — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:09:01 +0000

I think that it is still an infancy stage to really predict what an individual is thinking as all scans and tests are really jus estimating the pattern of “hot spots” on various forms of brain imaging.

In fact, behaviour science is more likely to do better job in pattern recognition and gathering signs to predict behaviour.

Profiling as some agency workers call it?

By: askcherlock

askcherlock — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:18:18 +0000

Fascinating video. A line from this which struck me was, “There really is no science fiction anymore.” Hopefully these techniques will be used as tools, rather than weapons. The idea of thought control comes to mind. So much of our privacy is already gone. I would at least like my thoughts to be my own. If this can be used to further advance recovery from brain injuries, it would be a giant leap, wouldn’t it?

By: GenuineWoman

GenuineWoman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:25:05 +0000

Timethief,

I checked out this post 2 days ago. And came back today to see people’s reactions and comments.

The only thing I can say now is that I am not fascinated by this.

Take care!