'60 Minutes': Can brain imaging be too revealing? Video
'60 Minutes': Can brain imaging be too revealing? Video Transcript
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>> As brain imaging continues to advance and find its way into the courts, the market, and who knows what other aspects of our lives, one message is be cautious. Another is get ready. Back at Carnegie Mellon, Just and Mitchell have already uncovered the signatures in our brains for kindness, hypocrisy, and love.
>> It's breathtaking.
>> Yes.
>> And kind of eerie.
>> Well, you know, I think the reason people have that reaction is that because it reveals the essence of what it means to be a person. All of those kinds of things that define us as human beings are brain patterns.
>> We don't want to know that.
>> Well --
>> That it all boils down to -- I don't know -- molecules and things like that.
>> But we are -- you know, we are biological creatures. You know, our limbs -- we accept, are muscles and bone. And our brain is a biological thinking machine.
>> Do you think one day, who knows how far into the future, there'll be a machine that'll be able to read very complex thought, like I hate so and so? Or, you know, I love the ballet because --
>> Definitely. Definitely.
>> Definitely.
>> And not in 20 years. I think in three, five years.
>> [Inaudible]
>> In three years.
>> Well, five. ^M00:01:25 [ Clock ticking ] ^E00:01:29
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