'60 Minutes': Brain imaging raises a lot of issues Video
'60 Minutes': Brain imaging raises a lot of issues Video Transcript
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>> We're talking about neuroscience and mind reading, and you have said that the public is way behind where the science is on this now. What do you mean the public is way behind?
>> I don't think the public realizes where neuroscience is taking us right now. Some of the research is showing things about the brain that are surprising and that allow us to have new kinds of knowledge about the brain but also to look into the brain in new ways. That raises a lot of issues about privacy. It raises issues about who has access to our brains and under what circumstances.
>> Who has access to our brains?
>> Um um. Something really new is happening. For all of human history, if you wanted to get information from me, you got it through what we call the peripheral nervous system. Whether it's language or expression or my heart beating faster or sweating or blushing, that's all peripheral nervous system. You couldn't get any information at all directly from my brain. Now, for the first time in history, you can. Through brain imaging, we're learning how to actually read the function of the brain so that we can predict what people are thinking, what they're looking at. That is very new. [ watch ticking ]
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