Imagine you could slip inside someone else’s head to learn how they determine right or wrong, or what they like or dislike. Then imagine you could derail that train of thought and set it on a different track. Imagine no more.
MIT... scientists in Rebecca Saxe’s “Saxelab”—officially the Social Cognitivie Neuroscience Laboratory—already had techniques to identify the source of judgments and intentions in the brain. Now they have the power, via magnetic interference, to alter those ideas. Saxe’s earlier studies show a particular section of the brain is highly active when a person thinks about someone’s intentions, thoughts and beliefs. By disrupting activity there—with a magnetic zap applied through a device attached to the scalp—you can alter the process of judgment. Rather then intuition or personal bias, the judger must now rely more on facts and outcomes.
Dubbed the neuroscience of empathy, the specter of mind control may give pause. But for Saxe, 31, it’s a benign attitude adjustment, a tool that could potentially be used to intuit motivation, lessen negative behaviors and perhaps, ultimately, defuse global conflict.
Saxe’s lab is now working to see whether insights into how the brain reacts to cues from others can help unlock mysteries about autism. By studying the atypical, such as the reactions of blind children, she hopes to learn how facial expression affects judgments. By learning about the brain region that allows juries to reach verdicts—and “what oversimplifications and flaws there are in the process”—Saxe believes her work could eventually help the justice system assess guilt more accurately.
“You can change attitudes, if you figure out a strategy to understand how empathy breaks down,” Saxe says. “It’s a way to answer why is it so hard to know what someone wants or believes, and why is it so hard to change that.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_saxe_how_brains_make_moral_judgments.html
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hey sarroub,
for me things work very simple:
1- this power is a very centralized and closed power; it is not for the people; there is the command and all the other people ( the world ); All victims of the hight power command ( some like us, some like perps, etc...)
2- things for the point of science are clear and basic http://deepthought.newsvine.com/; www.mindcontrol.se ; The high power command remote ( by sattelite ) control ower central nervous sistem and so the cognitive sistem, so its unuseless to explore farther what they can do, cause we are just human beings with profund vallues and principles most important on focus on than wrighting a fuking Marques de Sade`s book; They cant for sure take away your soul!!!And thats a positive think and thats where i focus on;
3- so, there is a A.I. ( 0 emotion; 0 commun sense; 0 humanism), just a mettalic tning that invent caracters to put them in your head like a theater. that theatre goes from the "computar central organization" to the sattelite and then to your head and reverse. So, i can be talking to you, and they can be in the back all time, or intruducing whatever they want in this conversation, in what you and i think and feel, but allways centralized power;
4- There is no Hell; Just more or less distant in deviation from you right path; And it can allways be adjust at all time;
5- There is no chips to me; its a like you see in the post, but by distant, by sattelite
the Ai is a completely sheet to me, a mettalic thing that is allways triyng to learn from us changin the approach, creating storyes and nouvels, caracters and theatres, in our heads, when everything remains exactly the same and they after all just prolong the crime or the crimes on us.
Hi Franc,