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In reply to the discussion: If possible, would you support a brain scan warrant? [View all]exboyfil
(17,862 posts)why it may be so difficult to actually access memories.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memories-may-not-live-in-neurons-synapses/
The idea that synapses store memories has dominated neuroscience for more than a century, but a new study by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, may fundamentally upend it: instead memories may reside inside brain cells.
As for the clip. As I understand the experiment it is not accessing memories but basically interpreting real time brain activity when watching a video. In other words it is using the patient's eyes and visual cortex of the brain as a movie camera.
To answer the question. I have no problem with a completely reliable technology to access memories from subjects so long as a warrant with sufficient probable cause is involved. I just don't think we will ever get there.