7 Dec
2004
7 Dec
'04
10:17 p.m.
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.