[extropy-chat] brain scans for racial attitudes

[Spike]

> This is an extreme reading of the original rather dodgy 
> research, which just claimed that racists use more mental effort in
disguising > their real attitudes when answering tests that would reveal
their racism 
> in a context where such attitudes are disapproved, and that this brain

> activity can be instrument-detected... Damien Broderick


The way I read the article, the researchers have not
only figured out that a racist's brain is more active
when she is looking at a member of a different race,
they are also claiming to know *what her brain is
actually doing* which is to say they have discovered
how to read actual thoughts.  This is wonderful news
friends, for we no longer need a criminal court system!
All we need to do is call in this team, hook up the
mind-reading equipment and nail those perps.

This is bad news for the porno industry, however.  The
research team could hook up my brain to the instrument,
rig it up to video output and people could watch that
for free; no need to spend all that money on porno
videos.  This could bankrupt the entire industry.

spike