Submission + - Reading the Brain: Mind-Goggling (economist.com)
RosenSama writes: If your colleagues are always bugging you why you wear a tin foil hat, here's something to get them off your back. "IF YOU think the art of mind-reading is a conjuring trick, think again. Over the past few years, the ability to connect first monkeys and then men to machines in ways that allow brain signals to tell those machines what to do has improved by leaps and bounds." . . . "But there is another kind of mind-reading, too: determining, by scanning the brain, what someone is actually thinking about. "
