The only things we can really keep to ourselves are those which we don’t speak, those which we lock up inside our minds with ball and chain so as for no one else to reach. But what if someone, or something for that matter, is able to attain all the thoughts inside our heads and truly read out minds? In the Mind Reading video we saw machines that could know if a person had been in places shown by the computer because of their brain activity. During another type of test a person is shown images and the computer is able to attain the name of the object being shown in the image by reading the person’s brain. Who would imagine a computer being able to extract information from our minds without us even realizing how it’s capable of doing it? And to what extend is this even legal? It’s predicted by scientists that in about 5 years a machine perfectly able to read minds will be completed. Although these machines could actually help detectives solving crimes, I personally stand behind the ideal that every human being has the right to keep their thoughts to themselves. If not, it’d be the brutal eradication of freedom of rights. Reading minds may be cool but it can also be considered an illegal invasion of personal space.
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