Mapping brain, thoughts, on technological horizon

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If brain mapping becomes mainstream, it could have major implications for the legal system. Even if a person chooses not to confess, his or her brain could be tapped to do it to reveal thoughts..

Dr. Joseph Mercola: “At the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2016 meeting, panelists suggest that different ways of scanning the brain and brain mapping could be incorporated into the legal system and used by lawyers as part of trials, including against you.

“If brain mapping became mainstream, it could have major applications applicable to the law, such that even if a person chooses not to confess, the brain could be tapped to do it for them.

“There is currently no such thing as protection of ‘freedom of thought’ the way there is protection for freedom of speech, and the notion of “mental privacy” isn’t even on the radar; yet, brain decoding technology is being slated for use against the public.

“One WEF panelist said it’s just a matter of time before there will be portable brain decoding technology that decodes language as fast as you can text on your cell phone.

“Everyone will wear them, because people have shown that they’re quite willing to give up privacy for convenience; a prototype could be here in the next decade.

“Davos is a city in Switzerland, known as much for its excellent skiing as it is for being host to the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting. The meeting is formally described as “the most creative force for engaging the world’s top leaders in collaborative activities to shape the global, regional and industry agendas at the beginning of each year.’

“This elite oligarchy, however, is behind a technocratic plan to govern society through technology, programmed by scientists and technicians and automated through the use of artificial intelligence, rather than through democratically elected politicians and government leaders.

“It’s compared to the meetings of the secretive Bilderberg Group, created by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands in 1954 to ‘foster dialogue between Europe and North America,’ but unlike Bilderberg meetings, the details of which are not made public, but which have reportedly referred to protestors as ‘cockroaches’ WEF is an open forum that may be recorded and released to the public.

“This particular discussion, therefore, is eerily polite, but that doesn’t make its content any less chilling.

“Scientists are scheming how to use your own thoughts against you

“What if, one day in the next decade, it becomes possible to read your thoughts? The WEF panelists suggest that different ways of scanning the brain and brain mapping could be incorporated into the legal system, used by lawyers as part of trials, including against you.

“Apparently, according to one of the panelists, Jack Gallant, head of The Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley, ‘Anything that’s in current conscious awareness can be decoded, it’s just a matter of [finding the] technologies’ to do so.

“If brain mapping became mainstream, it could have major applications applicable to the law, such that even if a person chooses not to confess, the brain could be tapped to do it. It has already occurred in India, when brain scan technology was used to criminally-convict someone based on the data received from the brain, not by their spoken words.

“It’s possible, for instance, to decode signals in the brain in such detail that you could reconstruct a movie a person has seen, including not only the objects and actions in the movie, but how that person felt about the movie — whether it made them feel happy, sad, or otherwise.

“Already, in 2017, researchers with Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories and Kyoto University created a program to reconstruct images from brain activity. In one example, a person saw or imagined an image of a cheetah, which led the program to reconstruct an image of a cheetah, albeit one with a dreamlike, somewhat abstract aura.

“Further, every emotion you feel leaves a signature in your brain that can be ‘read.’ Mind-reading, then, is no longer a work of science fiction. WEF cited a study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers who are using mind-reading technology to decode complex thoughts. According to WEF:

‘“The technology, the researchers say, is able to understand complex events, expressed as sentences, and semantic features, such as people, places and actions, to predict what types of thoughts are being contemplated. After accessing the mental triggers for 239 sentences, the program was able to predict a 240th phrase with 87% accuracy …’

“Marcel Just, who is leading the research, said … ‘This advance makes it possible for the first time to decode thoughts containing several concepts. That’s what most human thoughts are composed of.’

“‘The worst possible brain decoding device’

“There is currently no such thing as protection of ‘freedom of thought’ the way there is protection for freedom of speech, and the notion of ‘mental privacy’ isn’t even on the radar. Yet, this brain decoding technology is being slated for use against the public.

“Gallant stated, ‘There’s a huge government program now to increase measurement technology for neuroscience … as it helps basic research so we can measure the brain better, that will have applications in brain decoding and interpretational brain function that will be applicable to the law.”’

Continued at thevoice.us/future-thought-decoding-persons-brain-without-consent

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