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Mind Reading
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SPOILER
Are you aware of Big Brother?
If all this means to you, is the surveillance of self-important extroverted
exhibitionists.
I would heartily suggest you read George Orwell's 1984.
If you haven't, but intend to read it, I would hate to ruin the plot for
you.
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The most disturbing thing about the book is the final demolishment of
Winston's instinctive premise that whatever the commanding environment
to which an individual could be subjected 'the few
cubic centimetres inside your skull were still your own'.
Before his physical apprehension, it was to him a natural truism 'if
you kept your head you could still outwit them. With all their cleverness
they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being
was thinking'.
Later in The Ministry of Love, during O'Brien's interrogation of Winston.
Winston, still believes in The spirit of Man, believing one day, it will
conquer that which cannot factually be correct. He vehemently disbelieves
'Men are infinitely malleable'. As he reasoned
that Man is destined to see through the influence of any controlled collective
solipsism.
Winston's downfall is through O'Brien's controlling power of predicting
his every turn of thought, Winston is utterly debilitated by O'Briens
apparent intellectual prognosticating of his very mind.
Eventually, even Winston succumbs to the theory that the self, is the
only thing that cannot be known and verified.
Obviously, Winston is a fictional and we are free to make our own speculations,
as to how did O'Brien exert such clairvoyant powers. Did Winston talk
in his sleep, could the Telescreens not only survey but also transmit
nightly suggestions or was all gleaned unconsciously from a forced injection
of truth serum.
Mentalism
What does this mean for us today. Well actually, the current scientific
understanding of neurology shows nature has provided us with a brain that
is fully formed at birth, with inbuilt natural encryption.
No one has ever counted the neurons in a human brain, the best guess is
an mathematical estimate of between 100 to 200 billion.
These neurons are already in place at the time of our birth, taking a
figure of 150 billion and a gestation period
of 9 months that makes 6,000
neurons per second. Obviously their formation isn't constant, as it's
growth through exponential function.
It's unforeseeable that anyone soon will be able to count them, it's even
further remote that anyone could track and monitor them. The task is made
even harder as you'll need to discount the 10 to
50 times more glial cells that surround the neurons giving them
support and nutrition. New research indicates that even these glial cells
may actively communicate and provide additional nervous system functions.
Then you have to take account of how these cells a linked. The linking
circuitry is called a synapse. The average number of synapses on a single
neuron is estimated from anywhere between 1,000
to 10,000. Again this is a mathematical estimation, as no one has
managed to count them. Certain more specialised types of neuron have been
predicted to have up to 30,000 synaptic connections.
Even if the neurologist had a perfect immediate knowledge of an individual's
brain composition, it would be worthless, as it has already been proven
that the Grandmother's Face Cell does not exist. This would be that one
specialist neuron per percept, which would fire on discovering a particular
percept i.e. Thinking of your grandmother's face, when visually present
or being recalled from memory.
Thoughts and memories cannot be nailed down to a specific single cell
or even a group of cells. As the process is like millions of neurons synchronously
working together creating and recreating spatiotemporal patterns. Cognition
is derived from an ever-shifting neuronal network, where patterns and
signal strengths of the amalgamating synapses are forever oscillating.
Messages are therefore secure in the unclasped resilience of the plasticity
of synapses.
While cognisant no one will ever fully decode your thought processes.
Even at it's best, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can only get the most
basic impression, it will never fully read your actual mind.
Everyone should therefore beware their
biggest foes. These are in the guise of manipulative suggestion or forced
inebriated inhibition.
Basically Orwell was always a dodgy elitist I saw straight through him
over time, sharp
eyes you see - that's two eyes -( 13/3/2005 this Kerckhoffs' law can make
you a a bit disbelieving of everyone's intentions especially if they were
from a good public school- believe Orwell probably did have a good social
conscience )
By the the way, have you heard of Thought Reading
Algorithms.
Can you beat the Flash Mind Reader.
http://www.cyberglass.net/flshstuff/mindreader.php |
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