3 r# p( p5 N% b B; D 海恩斯指有关科技日后亦可应用在残疾人士的日常生活上,他们可利用具有扫描大脑功能的电脑,单靠脑中所想便可写电邮、上网甚至处理文件;这种技术亦可配合轮椅及义肢使用。每样东西有正面亦有反面,有医学界人士提出质疑:“我们是否希望未来变成一个像《未来报告》的社会,去预防一些可能不会发生的罪案呢?”有关技术亦牵涉一连串的道德争论,有人或会滥用新技术侦测思想,从而达到控制他人的目的。 $ F& ~9 O: O3 w' v( I
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. {9 T/ o+ N& s6 kThe brain scan that can read people's intentions 7 F. s9 ~) W4 C$ P' g! h& U, v + |" q4 q% j. W8 m8 w/ @* } ; ?/ U- A+ A, K# ~" B3 c; I5 yCall for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation . s D ?+ I" s! l( H4 i
A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act., {, ]: g7 e @7 u
The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future. * ^5 V' C4 e- ^+ @& L7 o* @: j( b% c( q1 f- D2 s
The team used high-resolution brain scans to identify patterns of activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts, revealing what a person planned to do in the near future. It is the first time scientists have succeeded in reading intentions in this way. # D7 a6 I8 [- M! o- J ' V) k- x% V# J! g/ ]"Using the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and read out something that from the outside there's no way you could possibly tell is in there. It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall," said John-Dylan Haynes at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany, who led the study with colleagues at University College London and Oxford University.