Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Philosophy Wire: Lying. With the soul. It is always with the soul… [Why fMRI is just too much]


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-07-19]: A study found that scanning people's brains with fMRI, or functional magnetic resonance imaging, was significantly more effective at spotting lies than a traditional polygraph test. [1] We are trying to look for traces of truth into electrons. And yet every time we lie we do it with our soul. Believe in the lie and the best fMRI analysis will detect nothing. No one sees inside the soul. Only God. Only You.

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