Saturday, February 6, 2010

Do We Want Brain Scanners To Read Our Minds?

Scientists can communicate with vegetative patients Photo: GETTY IMAGES

From The Telegraph:


As 'vegetative' patients ‘talk’ to scientists, Professor Colin Blakemore assesses the profound implications this has for the sick - and the healthy.


What nightmare could be worse than being buried alive? Conscious, terrified, but unable to communicate through the impenetrable barrier of a coffin lid and a metre of earth. In the past few days, this ultimate horror has been transformed from the stuff of bad dreams and B movies to two very different front page stories.

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