New brain scan that can read your intentions -- Pre-cogs, anyone?

A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.

Personally...i disagree with this, what we think and do can change in different situations and environments and so our intentions at the time change also, therefore, the intentions predicted during the time of the scan can immediately change after the scan...especially if you're like me, and you like to keep some thoughts to yourself....Our thoughts are our own and it almost feels like some sort of privacy invasion to let a scan predict behaviour.....sure behaviour can already be predicted, through close psychological observation...which kind of annoys me, i don't like people knowing what i'm thinking. I've come across two types of people in my 16 years of living...those who can follow my train of thought easily and understand what i'm saying/thinking perfectly...and those who simply can't.

The scan seems a bit inaccurate...and definitely has some ethical issues and i'd say a pretty low ecological valid result. This scan is supposed to predict my behaviour based on what? 50 participants from America who are 20 - 25 years of age? Surely they can't generalise that age group of those participants and assume that what their intentions are, are what our intentions are....it wouldn't be the first time it's happened either. Pre-cognition? No thanks, i'll keep my thoughts to myself. My mind is the only place i can think (obviously) , do, say, dream, create and basically do anything i feel like and not be judged, criticised, laughed at, violated or invaded. [/defensive behaviour]

An interesting read none the less....but it's at this point i feel science and technology have come too far to actually comprehend what a person is thinking...and not just a rough guess, but a scan that does so for them. The government have found a way to monitor us pretty much all the time, but this takes the biscuit.

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