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Scientists Try to Predict Intentions
The last couple decades and even years have seen a huge advancement in scientific understanding of the brain. It's a fascinating field which, unfortunately, I don't have the time or brain power to follow.
However every so often it's fun to see some of the experiments that are going on.
In the past, scientists had been able to detect decisions about making physical movements before those movements appeared. But researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now, for the first time, identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity — in this case, adding versus subtracting.
''The fact that we can determine what intention a person is holding in their mind pushes the level of our understanding of subjective thought to a whole new level,'' said Dr. Paul Wolpe, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not connected to the study.
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