ethics concerns: mind reading brain scan?

Question

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/feb/09/neuroscience.ethicsofscience

your thoughts?

Answer 1

So what are they going to find out if they scan mine? Maybe that I'm preparing to get up and grab a beer from the fridge?

Answer 2

Hmm...interesting. Although I don't see how a brain scan could analyze one's mind since a lot of people have so many thoughts in their mind at one time. But ethnically, yeah, this will be quite the debate if the use of this brain scan becomes widespread.

Do I think it's ethical? Depends on the use. It can be highly ethnical OR unethical depending on how human kind decides to use such a machine.

Answer 3

You are reading my thoughts here.

Technology marches forwards.

Do you want the leaders of that technology to be scientists in your nation, who are reasonably well paid, so they happy to live here.

Or do you want the technology banned here, because of some morality ethical religious concerns, with the science being funded in other nations, that are not exactly friendly to us, then this helps them beat us in WW III?

Answer 4

As Gordon Lightfoot once said."If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts would tell, just like an old time move, bout a ghost from a wishin well" Nuff said.

Answer 5

Excellent device to control your fellow human beings.

Answer 6

Your thoughts belong to you and you alone should choose whether anyone else gets to know the idea.

My mind belongs to me, not my government.

Answer 7

Very scary stuff. Hitler-types would use that as an excuse to eliminate anyone who is against them.

Answer 8

Finally, someone to help me decode my colliding thoughts!

Answer 9

mind reading is bs