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Soldiers prosecuted for thought Crime?


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The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a number of technologies that tap into the brain's ability to detect threats before the conscious mind is able to process the information. Already, there is Pentagon-sponsored work on using the brain's pattern detection capabilities for enhanced goggles and super-fast satellite imagery analysis. What happens, however, when the Pentagon ultimately uses this enhanced capability for targeting weapons?

This question has led Stephen White to write a fascinating article exploring the implications of a soldiers' legal culpability for weapons that may someday tap into this "pre-conscious" brain activity. Like the Minority Report notion of "pre-crime," where someone is convicted for contemplating a criminal act they haven't yet acted upon, this article raises the intriguing question of whether a soldier could be convicted for the mistake made by a pre-conscious brain wave.
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2 responses // Soldiers prosecuted for thought Crime?

  • Let me guess, soon we can expect a new department of the U.S. government?
    The " Ministry of Truth"?
    When i read 1984 in school, i thought it was to make everyone aware of what should not be allowed to happen..
    It seems that it actually became a blueprint...
    Disturbing...
    1percent
  • is there anyone the US doesnt want to piss off?? Spy on every other country in the world and have the right to know everything about their own citizens. Now they want to know what people are thinking before they do!!

    Isnt it about time communist revolutionists destroyed the american government?? I'de be with them.
    Joe_Leo

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