Hannah Frey

Yeah.

But as soon as we've got a really accurate way to determine guilt by scanning your brain, then it's going to become a hat that everyone has to wear.

And as soon as you commit a crime, boom.

We already know you did it.

We know you did it.

You would no longer have to have juries or judges.

It would just be like, oh, you were speeding or, yep, you had an unclean thought.

But at the moment, thoughts aren't crimes.

There's one case where your thought is quite relevant to the court, of course.

I mean, the most obvious one is intent, mens rea.

You can't just have done something wrong.

You have to have known that you were doing something wrong and you have a guilty mind.

The other way is like let's say fantasizing about committing a crime, not a crime, but it can be relevant to a court if I'm already in prison for the crime and I'm up for parole.

And they're like, look, do you still fantasize about committing this crime?

If I'm like, yeah, I do actually, then I probably won't get parole.

Exactly.

That's right.

But if I said that I fantasize about committing acts of vandalism every night.

I am not currently in prison for vandalizing anything.

So it's OK that I do.