From mv@cdc.gov Tue Dec 7 22:17:18 2004 From: "Major Variola (ret)" To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: cog sci as a tool of the beast? Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:17:18 +0000 Message-ID: <41B67FDA.3864FFC8@cdc.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2646286992859877229==" --===============2646286992859877229== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At 07:21 PM 12/7/04 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: >One of the tools currently being used in the cognitive sciences is the >measurement of reaction time to stimulus. >It turns out that the length of time it takes to given situations is a >credible proxy for how difficult the discrimination is to make. >Imagine a paranoia involving mysterious e-mail delays and the length >of time it takes to catagorize The viewscreens of the future will simply monitor the blood flow to various areas of the cortex to see if we are lying when we express our minute of hate, or love for the rulers. RT is so passe. --===============2646286992859877229==-- From eugen@leitl.org Wed Dec 8 07:59:25 2004 From: Eugen Leitl To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: cog sci as a tool of the beast? Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:59:25 +0000 Message-ID: <20041208115355.GZ9221@leitl.org> In-Reply-To: <41B67FDA.3864FFC8@cdc.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2527754891034350159==" --===============2527754891034350159== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:15:22PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > The viewscreens of the future will simply monitor the blood flow > to various areas of the cortex to see if we are lying when we > express our minute of hate, or love for the rulers. RT is so > passe. Not enough resolution. You might do with a skullcap, but even that is doubtful. -- Eugen* Leitl leitl ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] --===============2527754891034350159==--