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That is a much better version.

Well done jing

As I said earlier, it is true. The lecture I went to showed that if a painful stimulus was applied to a person, if a close friend was present then the same changes showed up on their MRI as well.
The Americanism 'I feel your pain' can be true.

Yes, but it just depends on the culture you come from. And English is my first language.

You are joking! I would never have guessed!

Oooh, I must come on this thread more often!

I read the original post once and thought 'eh!'. So read it another twice and still can't get all that excited at latest scientific advance in reading people's minds; obviously a long way to go yet.

As for Allah/God etc. well who knows about him? I once read a book by Carl Jung who argued that God does exist, if only as a myth, and is real in the same way that Father Christmas is real.

Actually real or not the 'idea' of Allah/God has certainly had a big effect on human history.

I've read the bible and like the philosophy but still an athiest/agnostic.

I suppose being able to accurately read the brain through MRI scanning would be useful in predicting criminal intent in a person.

jo4

Who is the person who started this topic do we know her. I cannot help but feel it is one of those introduced topics. There seems to have been a few recently.

Exactly johanna.

A Gransnet search reveals that this is his only post here

A Google search threw up several posts by him on Muslim religious forums on subjects like "Description of the Virgins in Paradise" "Belief in the Djinn" and one on the reasons for veiling women. He is banned on one forum.

He sounds to me like a fundamentalist.

He might be a she, of course, but from the posts under that name on other forums, I think not.

I still think it seems a harmless post. Until you start reading things into it which may or may not be there.

Yes, J it is just an over-verbose religioso burbling on. They come in various denominations and faiths but most are harmless. No need for anyone to bristle, better for anyone who does not like it to flip to another thread and leave this one to wither.

I agree, Elegran. I'm sure this post has been sent out to many sites and forums.

Post harmless. A bit boring.

So, not even a tiny bit sinister?

When you think how useful it would be to MI5 to be able to accurately read a person's intentions?

The original poster does seem quite happy that such a possibility is well into the future.

I'm gonna get deleted here.

It seems to me like someone coming up to a group of friends who are chatting and starting to give them a religious sermon.

Only a bit boring?

Perhaps I'm seeing the modern day version of 'reds under the beds'.

Elegran you make a good point

jeni Detecting "feeling someone else's pain" is not the same thing as reading their thoughts. It's not even remotely similar.

absent Think you need to read jeni's post again.

absent I never said it was. I was just demonstrating that these active MRI scans are throwing up some interesting facts. Another eg, was that if a load of people are put in a coach and told to expect a rear end shunt, then a large bang is made. They complain of similar symptoms to whiplash and MRI scans show pain, even though no shunt has occurred.

j04 Read jeni's next post. A response to pain – real or imagined – is not the same as a thought.

jeni It's interesting isn't it? My comment wasn't intended as a criticism of you or your comment; it was a continuation of my earlier suggestion that the original post and its stuff about reading minds was a load of old tosh.