• LostXOR
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    Reading thoughts remotely is a no-go, you need very precise measurements of the brain’s electrical activity and that just can’t be done with distant sensors.

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      No, the sensor will be in the brain, it will just transmit encrypted packets of the information it collects over WiFi or microwave.

      If they can read your brain, this is a very simple exercise

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      Maybe there are people who have more powerful brain waves or something like some kind of abnormality who can make they more likely to be remote targets

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        I’m no expert in biology but the way I understand it our brains all work in roughly the same way, so I don’t think that would be possible.

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          Yeah TBH I didn’t know a fuck about that, anyway let’s see what happens in the coming years.

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        Brains transmit/change state (a.k.a. think) using electricity. It’s basically a flesh computer. You can’t read thoughts without being able to measure the brain’s electrical/chemical activity. If you had any theoretically possible mind-reading (and by extension mind-controlling) technology, it would still need to physically connect to your neurons or something

        That being said, I don’t imagine it’d be too hard for sci-fi future folk to stick a chip in every newborn’s brain from the get-go. But that’s a future too far from now, we’ll all be dead by then probably.