Re: cog sci as a tool of the beast?

2004-12-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:15:22PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > The viewscreens of the future will simply monitor the blood flow > to various areas of the cortex to see if we are lying when we > express our minute of hate, or love for the rulers. RT is so > passe. Not enough resolution. Y

cog sci as a tool of the beast?

2004-12-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:21 PM 12/7/04 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: >One of the tools currently being used in the cognitive sciences is the >measurement of reaction time to stimulus. >It turns out that the length of time it takes to given situations is a >credible proxy for how difficult the discrimination is to