It is quite possible that in the near future there will be electronic devices that allow reading human thoughts. This is confidently stated by the American scientist Eric Leithard of the Innovation Center for Neurology and Technology at the University of Washington.
Technical progress
Photo on the right: Eric Leithard
New devices, according to Eric, will lead to revolutionary changes in many branches of human knowledge.
Sly, cynical and sophisticated politicians-liars, terrorists who prepare bloody crimes, aggressive military men, greedy financiers who are ready to plunge unsuspecting citizens into the abyss of the economic crisis, unscrupulous producers of goods and services, spouses plotting treason - all these (and many others) categories of citizens will be brought to clean water thanks to technological progress.
Their most secret thoughts will become the property of the owners of reading devices.
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With the introduction of electronic telepathy into practice, the need for modern lie detectors, which experienced criminals have learned to subtly deceive, will disappear.
With new devices, this trick will not work - criminal thoughts will be read and then printed, and such a document will be indisputable proof of guilt. It will be possible to prevent many crimes and make life on the planet more peaceful, stable and harmonious.
Mr. Leithard is by no means unfounded. He has every right to make such bold predictions, for for a number of years he has been engaged in research that is rapidly bringing the creation of new generation truth detectors closer.
Eric led a team of scientists who conducted a sensational experiment. The researchers implanted electrodes into the brain in volunteer patients and used them to identify the areas of the cerebral cortex responsible for speech. Research began with recognizing simple English vowel sounds. And after a year of intensive work, Eric Leithard said that with the help of the device he had invented, all the letters of the English alphabet could be "heard".
According to Leithard's theory, each sound uttered by a person corresponds to a certain electrical impulse, which appears before the person utters a particular word. Thus, already at the stage of the birth of a thought or idea, they can become the property of scientists. Words form certain pictures in the brain that can first be deciphered and then printed.
The CIA does not sleep
Leithard's articles, published in scientific journals, propelled interest in American research to incredible heights. Immediately wealthy sponsors were found willing to invest in further research. And this is not surprising, because any businessman is ready to give a lot for a device that allows you to read the thoughts of the leaders of a competing company. It is obvious that the widespread introduction of electronic telepathy can bring an additional and rather unexpected impetus to the development of a market economy.
The Pentagon and the CIA have shown a keen interest in Leithard's work. It is not hard to imagine what opportunities the device created by the scientist will open up for the military and special services. It will allow you to penetrate the secret plans of the enemy, and the need for spies will abruptly decline - why risk human lives if secrets can be found out using an electronic telepathic device?
Modern Stirlitz and Sorge will go on a well-deserved retirement together, and scientists will have to puzzle over how to protect the secrets of a particular country from leakage. If an electronic telepath can be considered a "killer" of the secret departments, then an "anti-killer" will certainly be created, which will erase secret files from a person's memory, which will make the plots of fantastic thrillers a harsh reality.
And what brilliant prospects will appear for the masters of the pen who specialize in various kinds of journalistic investigations! They will not have to chase after a pop star who does not want to give interviews, or after a scandalous producer who carefully conceals creative plans and adultery. All their thoughts and designs, intrigues and novels will be revealed by an electronic telepath, which will greatly facilitate the work of the yellow press.
The new note will also appear in the work of financial analysts, brokers, and will make employees of stock exchanges and investment companies feverish. They can easily figure out an unscrupulous borrower who intends to take out a loan and then disappear in an unknown direction. At the same time, an honest, creditworthy, responsible citizen will immediately receive the required amount in the bank. But before that, there will be an "interview" with an electronic telepath. He can easily determine: is the client planning to take out a loan and “forget” to return it?
For the good of man
Eric Leithard suggests that the device he invented will find application in medicine. It will allow you to compose a picture of the well-being of a person who, for one reason or another, has lost his speech, and moreover, it will help him regain the ability to pronounce words and return to a normal, fulfilling life.
Experiments are already underway with wireless microchips that read human brain activity. If you place such a chip on your throat, it will function as a sub-voice microphone, which will enable people to communicate silently.
In parallel with Leithard, Professor Robert Knight conducts his research. His laboratory recently conducted an unusual experiment.
With the help of a special computer program, Knight and his collaborators were able to reconstruct the words heard by the participants of the experiment on the brain electroencephalogram. The theoretical basis of the experiment was the discovery made earlier that when "imagining" a certain word, the same part of the brain is activated as when it was pronounced.
A dozen volunteers were involved in the study, who were injected into the brain with electrodes, after which they were allowed to listen to five ten-minute dialogues, while recording the impulses coming to the electrodes. Comparing them with the content of the dialogues, the researchers prepared two schemes for converting brain activity into sound. The patients were then given a word to listen to, and the best of the schemes "produced a sound that was realistic enough for scientists to guess the original word."
As noted by Robert Knight, this mechanism in the future may allow "deciphering" the thoughts of people who are deprived of the ability to speak:
- We are already developing a device that will help deaf and dumb people communicate with the world around them. The electronic device will transform the thoughts of a person with a disability into words sounding from a miniature speaker. Thus, the deaf-mute will be able to communicate with the outside world without sign language translation.
In 2013, a session was held at the University of California in which a computer read a person's mind. The patient, to whose brain the doctors connected electrodes, wrote words on the screen and drew images with the power of thought.
Through their bold experiments, scientists are trying to prove that the human brain is not an armored safe that keeps secrets. With the help of electronic devices, scientists will be able to learn its secrets. It is quite possible that in the near future there will be compact devices that will allow you to "scan" someone else's mind secretly. But now the time has come to think about the ethical problems of "technical telepathy", because it will bring new unexpected turns into the life of every ordinary citizen.
And all this does not seem to be a fantasy, given the giant leap forward electronic technology has made in recent years. It would seem that only recently have mobile phones taken a firm place in the hands of earthlings. And today from a mobile phone you can access the Internet, with a slight movement of your finger, it turns into a TV, player or radio receiver.
So the times are not far off when every man in the street will carry an "electronic telepath" with a mobile phone. At airports and railway stations, scanners will appear to read the thoughts of passengers, which will allow you to accurately identify a terrorist in a diverse crowd.
The only trouble is that such devices can enter the arsenal of bandits, thieves, robbers and fraudsters of all ranks and stripes, which will make the work of special services extremely difficult. You can already imagine how lovers rub their hands to profit from other people's property, because an electronic telepath will allow you to get information about the contents of a home safe or purse, hiding places with dollars and euros in a suburban hacienda, as well as about bank accounts of a particular company. It will be difficult for ladies' men of all stripes and ranks, because life companions will find out in advance about the spouse's desire to "go to the left" and will give him a real headwash.
But in any case, the developments of Eric Leithard and his colleagues will give a powerful impetus to new scientific developments. But it is very important that they go for the good of a person.
Vladimir PETROV
