Is The US Government On The Verge Of Reading Minds?

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently made a scientific breakthrough using machine algorithms to accurately guess what people are thinking. In other words, as the university referred to it, they have ‘harness[ed] ‘mind reading’ technology to decode complex thoughts.’
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The researchers report that they can ‘now use brain activation patterns to identify complex thoughts, such as, ‘The witness shouted during the trial.”
Though the technology does not identify the actual words, lead researcher Marcel Just, D. O. Hebb University Professor of Psychology in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has made enough progress that ‘machine learning algorithms with brain imaging technology’ can effectively ‘read minds.’

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 11, 2017.