This does mean that you can determine that someone is thinking of a screw driver without any prior measuring. And that's shown in this movie by showing ten pictures and asking the subject to think of them. Then the computer guesses, without knowing which pictures were shown, correctly 10 times out of 10 without any problems. And you could call that 'mind reading'.
A next example would go even further. In this someone will be shown a few rooms in a virtual environment. Then you’re put under the scanner and the computer will recreate the rooms you’ve seen. It appears that the computer can determine if you encountered something familiar without any problems.
By now the regions for kindness, hypocrisy and love have also been determined.
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Almost without exception this’ll give people negative feelings. After all, the invasion of privacy is huge. Determining lies, the use in courts. People are shuddering from this.
Yet this technology has a very friendly side too. We can make traumatized people relive their experiences and reprogram them using virtual worlds to create very different associations. We can measure people’s feelings in certain situations. With animal confrontation, with violence or conflict. Or the behaviour in certain situations. And that’ll allow us to create very effective therapies.
But we can also use it to measure whether certain concepts will work. Whether you’ve understood something. And then offer the studying material again. It’ll make generations happier, more intelligent and create a more peaceful society.