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I read this, too.  I believe lie-detector MRI's have been, or are close to being, operational.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 04:30:41 PM EST
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Sadly, If I could read your thoughts, you could read mine - so we'd get the MRI escalation wars.

It would begin with Presidents, PMs and Kings undergoing global questioning live - with a drop into a vat of boiling asphalt below as a reward for saying something your brain can't support..

But eventually I would have to do the same thing....

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 05:34:12 PM EST
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Hey, if I thought that's where it would begin, I wouldn't be so against it.  ;-)

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 05:43:17 PM EST
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You're cruel ;-)


You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:03:22 PM EST
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Read The Rose by Ursula LeGuin anyone?

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by A swedish kind of death on Fri Mar 24th, 2006 at 07:38:45 AM EST
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