Scientists Predicting Intentions

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:35PM from the science-of-mind-reading dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us German scientists claim to have the means of predicting decisions of high level mental activity. "In the past, experts had been able to detect decisions about making physical movements in advance. But researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now, for the first time, identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity _ in this case, adding versus subtracting."

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Pre-Crime (Score:3, Funny)

by biocute ( 936687 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:43PM (#18242752)

You mean like what Tom Cruise did 5 years ago [imdb.com]?

I, for one,... (Score:5, Funny)

by Joe Random ( 777564 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:45PM (#18242786)

...intend on welcoming our mind-reading overlords (as they well know).

Re:Suspicion (Score:5, Funny)

by nomadic ( 141991 ) * writes: <nomadicworld@@@gmail...com> on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:47PM (#18242812) Homepage

My first reaction is suspicion

As I knew it would be!

Re:Cool I think (Score:4, Funny)

by Joe Random ( 777564 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:49PM (#18242856)

Truly you have a dizzying intellect.

Re:Suspicion (Score:3, Funny)

by BWJones ( 18351 ) * writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:53PM (#18242896) Homepage Journal

OK, I almost sprayed coffee all over my keyboard and displays. Somebody mod this as funny!

Whoa. (Score:5, Funny)

by FlyByPC ( 841016 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:54PM (#18242898) Homepage

Adding and subtracting is "high-level" intellectual activity, now?

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Yes, but... (Score:4, Funny)

by Halo1 ( 136547 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @06:00PM (#18242994)

... can they also predict dupes [slashdot.org]?

Re:Pre-Crime (Score:4, Funny)

by JeanBaptiste ( 537955 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @06:06PM (#18243070)

Yes, this technology will far and away make crime a risky business. Whether your name is Mohammed or Jerry Maguire, this should be able to separate out the real criminals without any collateral damage. Hopefully though this stays in the hands of a few good men who make all the right moves - ones who aren't swayed by the color of money - or else our society could collapse into a war of the worlds.

Re:devil's advocate (Score:3, Funny)

by antifoidulus ( 807088 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @06:21PM (#18243268) Homepage Journal

Turns out he is both, he is watching the birds trying to figure out which one to molest. Who would have guessed?

Re:Pre-Crime (Score:3, Funny)

by Dan Slotman ( 974474 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @07:12PM (#18243936)

Huh. Insightful is it? I just see a lot of Tom Cruise movie titles strung together. Where I come from, that's a joke!

Re:A bit ambiguous (Score:2, Funny)

by Toonol ( 1057698 ) writes: on Monday March 05, 2007 @08:55PM (#18245004)

What is likely, is they can't tell whether you will buy a PS3 or an XBox 360
Sheesh, I can tell you that... they ain't gonna buy a PS3.

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Whoa. (Score:5, Funny)

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