Minding Minds

This week I would like to return to our theme of minding minds, or is it mining minds? In weeks past I have discussed how technology promises to do everything from read our thoughts to literally direct them—and I’m not speaking of potential technologies! No—those technologies already exist and are being improved upon for deployment in the very near future in a number of overt, and I’m sure, covert trials. Mining Minds When most people think of the mind and our thoughts, they draw upon images of a linear lexical nature—words. However, our feelings are also rooted in our thoughts ...