Sounds great, but the issue of going inside a mind is a political
landmine. It was civil libertarians who got us to deinstitutionalise the
homeless. Imagine the uproar if school teachers and college professors
had
to undergo psychiatric evaluation before hired.
For about three years I have argued we should go down to Guantanamo and
make electrical scans of the terrorist brains. Then we should just develop
neural networks that can scan a person's electical activity without even
touching them and guess if that person should be searched or
questioned. Twenty five years ago DOD TEMPEST could figure out what was
being
written on an electric typewriter (not a "robot" typre write which was
essentially also a computer printer) from a block away monitoring radio
interference. Astronomers use eigencovariance techniques to isolate
signals
from a single remote object. This is totally doable. The irony is that
firms
who monitor consumer reaction to advertising are starting to install brain
monitoring equipment on their voluntary subjects. Such an RFI scanning
approach does not only have value in scanning potential criminals, it can
also scan the potential for someone about to have a heart attack or
epileptic
siezure (or even diarrhea) and rush help sooner.
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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus,
BioStrategist
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
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