Ghith Alrestom

The science of the brain as known neuroscience has immeasurably developed to not only the level of a better understanding of mental disorders, but also the level where can read human’s minds by a phenomenal technology in scanning, such as MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). By this technology, neuroscientists are capable of having information about different realms of public and private people’s lives. For example, they can know data about person’s personality, behavior, and even history. However, such a technology could be an invasion of privacy, an organized group of philosophers, neuroscientists, lawyers, and psychologists formed the Neuroethics Society, which they discuss the ethical and philosophical dilemmas that the advances in neuroscience have created. Hence, all of us who will be affected by this technology have the right to access to information about it, and have a judgment about. It believed that by interpreting images of a person’s brain, employer or court officials could use it as a creditable evidence for his/her behavior, personality, etc. Henceforth, it could be a feasible method of lie-detection. However, this kind of system is still imperfect and the information produced is erroneous because it requires human interpretations of sophisticated and variable brain functions. Thus, it is very difficult to verify if someone is lying or not.

This kind of technology could be an earth-shattering breakthrough, if it were existed. It is true though that neuroscience has now a better understanding of how brain functions and can somewhat treat mental illnesses, but still is very far from the level where can even know a piece of information about a person’s life. In addition, since the corporations are the more confident ones from the neuroscientist, it is more likely to be a commercial tumor to earn money