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David Eagleman

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly right. That's one of the issues is the sanctity of your inner cosmos. Yeah. So just as an example, there was a case in the 1960s where the police thought this guy probably had drugs. They broke into his house and he ran upstairs and they chased him. After he got to his bedroom and there were these pills on the dresser and he

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly right. That's one of the issues is the sanctity of your inner cosmos. Yeah. So just as an example, there was a case in the 1960s where the police thought this guy probably had drugs. They broke into his house and he ran upstairs and they chased him. After he got to his bedroom and there were these pills on the dresser and he

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Stuck all the pills in his mouth and swallowed them and then said, you can't bust me anything because you can't find anything. So they had him taken to the hospital and they pumped his stomach. And this went all the way up to the Supreme Court about whether that's okay to do that or that's an invasion of privacy.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Stuck all the pills in his mouth and swallowed them and then said, you can't bust me anything because you can't find anything. So they had him taken to the hospital and they pumped his stomach. And this went all the way up to the Supreme Court about whether that's okay to do that or that's an invasion of privacy.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Stuck all the pills in his mouth and swallowed them and then said, you can't bust me anything because you can't find anything. So they had him taken to the hospital and they pumped his stomach. And this went all the way up to the Supreme Court about whether that's okay to do that or that's an invasion of privacy.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And so the Supreme Court ruled that that was an invasion of privacy to pump somebody's stomach. But there are other circumstances when you can be given a blood test or something. So anyway, this issue about brain imaging is always right in between. This is an active area in legislation right now about when it counts as private or not.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And so the Supreme Court ruled that that was an invasion of privacy to pump somebody's stomach. But there are other circumstances when you can be given a blood test or something. So anyway, this issue about brain imaging is always right in between. This is an active area in legislation right now about when it counts as private or not.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And so the Supreme Court ruled that that was an invasion of privacy to pump somebody's stomach. But there are other circumstances when you can be given a blood test or something. So anyway, this issue about brain imaging is always right in between. This is an active area in legislation right now about when it counts as private or not.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

But I think for a while, what we're going to see is that it's a step too far and far as invasion of privacy. Even if we had meaningful fMRI lie detection, the idea of saying we're going to handcuff you and force you in the scanner and force your brain to tell us something that's not going to fly.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

But I think for a while, what we're going to see is that it's a step too far and far as invasion of privacy. Even if we had meaningful fMRI lie detection, the idea of saying we're going to handcuff you and force you in the scanner and force your brain to tell us something that's not going to fly.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

But I think for a while, what we're going to see is that it's a step too far and far as invasion of privacy. Even if we had meaningful fMRI lie detection, the idea of saying we're going to handcuff you and force you in the scanner and force your brain to tell us something that's not going to fly.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Exactly. Typically, what we have now, though, is that you can volunteer. You say, hey, I would like to take the lie detector test and present that as evidence. The court doesn't have to accept it. That's true. Yeah. It's minority report ish. Yeah.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Exactly. Typically, what we have now, though, is that you can volunteer. You say, hey, I would like to take the lie detector test and present that as evidence. The court doesn't have to accept it. That's true. Yeah. It's minority report ish. Yeah.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Exactly. Typically, what we have now, though, is that you can volunteer. You say, hey, I would like to take the lie detector test and present that as evidence. The court doesn't have to accept it. That's true. Yeah. It's minority report ish. Yeah.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Now, the interesting thing about Minority Report, which is important, is that it is a total fantasy to imagine that you could ever predict what somebody is going to do. Why? Because the world's really complicated and every moment your brain is changing based on what the whole world is doing to you. So we can't ever know, oh, now we've got such great technology.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Now, the interesting thing about Minority Report, which is important, is that it is a total fantasy to imagine that you could ever predict what somebody is going to do. Why? Because the world's really complicated and every moment your brain is changing based on what the whole world is doing to you. So we can't ever know, oh, now we've got such great technology.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Now, the interesting thing about Minority Report, which is important, is that it is a total fantasy to imagine that you could ever predict what somebody is going to do. Why? Because the world's really complicated and every moment your brain is changing based on what the whole world is doing to you. So we can't ever know, oh, now we've got such great technology.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

We know that in a week Jordan's going to commit a crime. No possible way of ever knowing that.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

We know that in a week Jordan's going to commit a crime. No possible way of ever knowing that.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

We know that in a week Jordan's going to commit a crime. No possible way of ever knowing that.