Reading someone’s mind can be quite an intuitive task for people. We are trained for all our lives to read the face of people around us to get to know how they feel.
Back in September, at a TEDtalk conference, scientist Rebecca Saxe talked about the possibility of manipulating someone’s choices by sending electrical pulse to a special region of the brain – Right Temporo-Parietal Junction. In attempt doing this, we can explain why people have differences in beliefs and choices.
Right temporoparietal junction is the right hemisphere part of the temporoparietal junction — an area at the border between the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe
As you may already know, almost all regions of our brain develop over time; in addition, areas of brain that perform primitive tasks like breathing, control body temperature, heart rate, touch sense, etc, develop in most people’s early age quickly while areas of brain that perform complex problem solving skills, emotions and judgement develop much more slowly over greater period of time. Right temporoparietal junction is the part of brain that does work that can be considered higher thinking, thus, it takes time for it to fully develop and function.
Furthermore, Rebecca talked about the effect of age on the emotional thinking such as false beliefs of the consequences of one’s action, with the perspective of using the development Right temporoparietal junction.
Please watch the TEDtalk to get to know how the development of Right temporoparietal junction affects our decisions:
[youtube GOCUH7TxHRI]According to Rebecca, it’s possible to send and manipulate someone’s mind, thus influencing that person’s decision making skills.
In my opinion, one’s mind is too precious, sensitive and private to be manipulated, to be able to understand how parts of the brain work is cool, manipulating it is crossing the line a little.
How do you feel about this? Mind manipulation, go or no go?
