15min chapter

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Ep27 "Can we read brains at an airport to know who's going to bomb a plane?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

CHAPTER

Mind Reading: Possibilities and Limitations

This chapter explores the concept of mind-reading, including the use of portable brain scanning technology in airports as a security measure. It discusses the history of lie detection, the limitations of current methods, and the gap between the idea of reading someone's mind and actually being able to do so.

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