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.
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 <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ 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]
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