Brain mapping could be used in the studying of autism or the disorders of thoughts. Also, it can be used for criminal investigation which could make the jobs of police easier. However, it also has negative impacts on the society such as unethical abusing and over-dependency on the technology.
First, brain mapping can be further researched and have applications in the study of autism, disorder of thoughts such as paranoid schizophrenia, and semantic dementias such as Pick's disease.(National Science Foundation,2008) The study of thoughts and ideas have always been a question mark and it would be a tremendous breakthrough in science technology if there are related links found for thoughts expression and generation and can be subsequently used for autism developments.
Second, brain mapping can be used for interrogating truth from suspects and should the truth gathered is found to hold, it can also be used as evidence in court. As a result, crime rates would decrease drastically and makes the society a safer place.
However, this could results in an over reliance on the technology and soon everything could be judged upon the results of the computer regardless of its high positive rates or negative rates. People would lose their judgment over time and leave everything to the computer as the fate of people is determined by their brain. The way of life becomes rigid and people would be good only at things they are told to be good.
The technology to read minds could be abused by employers used on their employees. This could be unfair to employees for their performance to be judged by a computer system. Thus, I think it is necessary for brain mapping technology to be available to people who have high authoritative control like the police or the government. This is because they can control or use the technology to rule their districts better.
In conclusion,brain mapping can have terrible effects on the society if fallen into the wrong hands so it is important to ensure that only people who can use it in the right way have their hands on the technology.
2 comments:
very concise summary on brain mapping and possible abuses.
however the introductory paragraph could have been better. Too little details have been given to research in general before diving into brain mapping.
Well done!
This is a very good description of the unethical effects on our socierty and you also give out the solution to this problem.
However, I think you have made a mistake just the same as me (I have realized it but it is too late), that is, we should illustrate our ideas from the view of a researcher. And I think since you have done this research about this topic, you had better say something about its benefits to the society.
Thank you for your effort!
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