Playing back your past memories on a computer. Science related. When will this be able to be done? Commit crime? Play it back. For the heavy minded!

[radiocaster]

The digging into the subconscious is fraught with errors - for one thing people fantasize about all sorts of things - and telling real from fake would be impossible - and the thoughts of someone who had an interest in whatever crime was committed would also convolute the results - then there is the whole minority report concept that further dilutes truth and reality.

Plus the accused might get a mental picture of what and where and when he was supposed to have committed the act, even if it didn't happen.

 

[rze99]

It will never happen.

 

[Toto'sDad]

Eggs, nine dollars a dozen, gasoline $5 bucks a gallon, home heating doubled, electricity doubled. We don't need no stinkin' computers to beat us up, we got PEOPLE who take care of that.

 

[bottlenecker]

I used to think my memory was good, because I could remember long sequences. I could remember a phone number for a week without writing it down.

But then I was telling a musician that I had seen him play with the white stripes in the 90s at a gig he wasn't at. My mind had filled in gaps in my memory and patched two gigs together so well I swore it happened. He gave up trying to convince me he wasn't there, but when I talked to someone else who had been there they told me it was a different band. I know if anyone tries to convict me with my own memory I've got witnesses to testify how unreliable it is.

Plus, as unreliable as "confessions" and body cameras have turned out to be, it'd probably be just another dystopian nightmare.

 

[imwjl]

We already have a lot of playback all over many do not consider. Think of security cameras. We're 10+ years into some popular cars recording what leads up to a crash. All of law enforcement, defense and insurance stitches that stuff together. My job gets me in the middle at time via legal holds and law enforcement matters just from around 1000 employees and all the public who go to grocery stores.

For myself and how bad our memory is, I've long been a big note taker and do that digitally with photos too. It is interesting when I am certain and find the brain was right or wrong relative to what's in my physical and notes apps.

 

[imwjl]

This thread shows up right after I invested all of that money on a USB port on my skull...Danggit...

I hope you got C/Thunderbolt and were not listening to TDPRI John on get a type A. I went for the C just for the aerodynamics but I'm also just a dumbass from Wisconsin so appreciate the performance.

 

[radtz]

I hope you got C/Thunderbolt and were not listening to TDPRI John on get a type A. I went for the C just for the aerodynamics but I'm also just a dumbass from Wisconsin so appreciate the performance.

I went with micro USB so I can spend 20 minutes trying to plug in a USB C cord into it. DfW forevs!

 

[imwjl]

I went with micro USB so I can spend 20 minutes trying to plug in a USB C cord into it. DfW forevs!

Job security - now I get it.

 

[Mjark]

I can’t imagine a more unreliable system. This is why cameras are important.

 

[memorex]

I can barely remember when stuff was cheap and all my body parts worked. And what good does it do you to remember it anyway.

 

[Wheelhouse]

The Netflix series Black Mirror had at least one episode on this subject.

Scary stuff.

Also consider that with most minds, the proper presentation can have one absolutely convinced of something that absolutely did not happen. False confessions aren't just about abusive police behavior.

 

[thunderbyrd]

Not going to happen in our lifetime.

 

[chris m.]

Remember Google Glass? A cool but also dystopian idea was that it would record everything you see and hear, and store it in the cloud. Basically we'd all be wearing body cameras, all the time. Or think of it as a multi-years long home movie filled with so many moments with family and friends.

As my memory fades there are so many things that might as well not have happened. My wife is constantly telling me about stuff that happened and I have zero memory of it whatsoever....but I know she isn't making it up....

Of course the big downside is that if you couldn't protect it from subpoenas, hackers, or the people in your life then you would have no more privacy at all.....

 

[THX1123]

I'd rather have my consciousness uploaded into a Digital Construct of Reality.

 

[telemnemonics]

By golly how about what comes next!

 

[telemnemonics]

Eggs, nine dollars a dozen, gasoline $5 bucks a gallon, home heating doubled, electricity doubled. We don't need no stinkin' computers to beat us up, we got PEOPLE who take care of that.

Just tell us who to blame so we can terrorize them from our bunkers!

 

[Kingpin]

Even if technology were somehow available to reliably read memories (I doubt this will ever actually happen in our lifetimes) it would blatantly be a violation of the Right against Self-Incrimination to use it in a criminal trial.

 

[bebopbrain]

Check out "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" from 1966, readily available as a pdf.

 

[Toto'sDad]

Just tell us who to blame so we can terrorize them from our bunkers!

I know you well enough to know, you never ask a question you don't know the answer to.

 

[Fiesta Red]

There was a short film that was shown to us in an ethics/social studies class when I was in elementary school with this same premise.

Basically, it said the “video” of his mind read was not admissible due to the 5th Amendment.

I’ll stop here.