cog sci as a tool of the beast?

[Major Variola (ret)]

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.