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Showing Original Post only (View all)If possible, would you support a brain scan warrant? [View all]
If there was a technology that could, literally, read your mind, then should it be available to law enforcement subject to a warrant?
Now, before you say "that would be self-incrimination", understand that medical physical procedures can be ordered. You can be compelled to give blood, gene, hair and other samples on probable cause. You can have your metabolism tested, your fingerprints taken, you stomach pumped and your cavities examined. You can have your urine, feces, and respiration tested.
You will not be compelled to give them information. You will sit in a chair, a device pointed at your head, and it will download the contents of your memory.
You don't have to be suspect, you could just be a witness.
Should such a technology be used for law enforcement, or should it be off limits?
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I don't see such a technology ever being capable of meeting the standards of admissable evidence.
MohRokTah
Feb 2016
#4
And that's why any technology that allegedly coulld translate electromagnetic brain activity,...
MohRokTah
Feb 2016
#17
While each person's brain is unique in form, but not in how they store information...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2016
#38
There is a concern that memories aren't "stored" so much as reconstructed every time we recall...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2016
#60
I think they'd use the Open Fields Doctrine to justify warrantless brain scans
jmowreader
Feb 2016
#5
Only to help catch our nation's millions of dangerous marijuana addicts
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#6
I'm arguing that the most intimate part of us....our minds, is not subject to search.
msanthrope
Feb 2016
#22
I think the answer is no, because of the hypothetical nature of the thing you wish to measure
aikoaiko
Feb 2016
#20
That the thing -- remembering is a mental behavior - not a static thing like a diary or your genome.
aikoaiko
Feb 2016
#37
Your honor, the results of this device cannot possibly be admissible in this court
struggle4progress
Feb 2016
#21
I respectfully ask for reconsideration, based on the long-established doctrine
struggle4progress
Feb 2016
#68
Well if we do that won't it start a war with the reptilian race that reside in the GOP?
Rex
Feb 2016
#29
A fascinating posit. I would say that I would only support it in limited circumstances.
stevenleser
Feb 2016
#41
Legally and from the standpoint of cognitive philosophy and cognitive science it makes as much sense
Monk06
Feb 2016
#42
If a court could grant a warrant to scan the brains of dead, known, murderous terrorists
Algernon Moncrieff
Feb 2016
#69