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In reply to the discussion: If possible, would you support a brain scan warrant? [View all]Downwinder
(12,869 posts)73. Would that be any different than a warrant for
a cavity search or stomach x-ray?
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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