IRS: “Do you promise you don’t owe more?”
Employer to job seeker: “Do you promise not to steal and to work hard?”
Promises are made to be broken, so it can be tough to tell which ones will be kept. But new-found patterns in brain activity can reveal whether someone intends to keep their word.
The finding raises the possibility of using brain scans to determine the true intentions of criminals who are up for early release on parole, according to Thomas Baumgartner of the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
He and his colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to catch promise-breakers in the act.
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The fMRI data revealed that certain brain areas became more active when trustees were breaking a promise. These regions – the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala – are known to be involved in emotion. They could reveal an emotional conflict in a person who knows they are doing something wrong, or feels guilty, says Baumgartner.
I can do algebra by chewing bubblegum.
The do this using an MRI scan, to find out if people may or may not be promising/breaking promises, yet I get turned down for the one to show the doctor what is wrong with my spine because it is deemed “Unnecessary and overly costly”??
Why is this even being researched ?
#2, Wrong Country.
Can we run it on politicians and their campaign promises? I suppose a full battery of “they won’t keep their promise” would just make the test superfluous.
Welcome to the thought police!
#2 You Canadian?
#6, You just like stirring shit up, don’t you
Man, they should use this at the church. Do you promise not to molest little boys? Holy shit, coul
What I love is how they are framing this. “Reading the thoughts of criminals to determine parole.” might be the best thing they could think of to justify this research, because virtually any other use one can think of is so openly Orwellian and tyrannical that they don’t think they would get their funding if people thought about it much.
“Oh, it will be used on criminals, that’s all right!”
Nothing to see here, move along now.
This is a corrupted goal from the top and should be stopped ASAP.
We are still scientifically inept as a species. Until all of us are science and technological equals, this will only be used to exploit the ignorant and those without the mean$ to ensure “their desired outcome”
So does this mean Catholics and Jews are exempt? They are brainwashed from childhood to feel guilty or “dirty” about anything that might feel good.
-it’s a great control mechanism that usually requires a payment of some sort to feel “un-guilty”
(I think George Carlin describes it much better, tbh)
Anyone with deep religious convictions will light up the scan like a x-mas tree.
I’ve dated plenty of jewish and catholic/italian-irish girls and not only have observed it, -they have explained it to me in great detail..
-that aside.. just like the CO2 scam, if a computer is involved, *ANY* desired outcome can programmed into it.
There will always be someone who believes still believes their own BS, let alone yours.
Those that need to be found guilty will be, and those who need to be found innocent, the same, -regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
-it all depends on how much one is willing to pay for the desired outcome.
Remember, the other side always pay higher. -and no doubt, BigPharma already has a drug that will “turn off” the areas of “guilt”
With every governmental body on the planet corrupt to the core as is evident in the least, by the CO2 scam, “us serfs” will be nothing but cannon fodder for eternity if we do not stop this insanity now.
Funny thing is, this has happened over and over throughout history and still, we do not learn.
How about making Earth v5.0 break the cycle?
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This could replace the Presidential Debates!
“Candidate number three: Do you promise not to raise taxes?”
No picture of Obama?
How’s that Jan deadline for closing Guantanamo?
#12 I think is off the list now that he got what he wanted: the Nobel.
“They could reveal an emotional conflict in a person who knows they are doing something wrong, or feels guilty, says Baumgartner.”
So what if they don’t see their behavior as wrong and don’t feel guilty about it?
#14: You mean a sociopath or religious fanatic?
#15 -there is a difference??
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A gypsy reading tea leaves would probably be just as effective.
Yeah, I can see this being big — giant multi-million dollar Functional MRI machines in every hiring office, police station, etc., practically on every corner!
“You want to buy that on credit? Just crawl in here while the machine goes “BANG! BANG! BANG!” for half an hour to two hours while I interrogate you, won’t you?”