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In reply to the discussion: If possible, would you support a brain scan warrant? [View all]aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)20. I think the answer is no, because of the hypothetical nature of the thing you wish to measure
Remembering is behavior and transient. You won't be able to scan a brain and see a memory any more than you can scan leg muscles to see how many steps you took that day. That information is not stored that way.
Even you could "see" the internal talking it would be equivalent to speaking out loud and protected.
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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