I've always had a fascination for the brain. As a curious child born to a schizophrenic, I learned at a young age that while you are your brain, it can also trick you. I learned that everything about you, even the things you sense that aren't actually real, it's all your brain. On a side note, that's why I can't say that I never really believed in God despite my family's best efforts. It was all just made up in the brain.
Anyway, the brain has always been on my brain and it's something I've always daydreamed about. One of my thoughts was that we should be scanning the brains of those in power and a few other things. Politicians, police, teachers.. to see if they're really the right people.
Imagine if we could hook up a politician and just by looking at their brain see if they truly care about the position or if they're likely to become corrupt. Imagine if we could hook up a cop and see if they are really there to serve and protect or if they're likely to be overly aggressive to someone based on their ethnicity. If we could hook up a teacher and see if they're there to teach or have a high percentage chance of molesting a student. Of course this could be and would be extended with time to include everyday people, which has its pros and cons. An employer could eventually skip the interview and look directly at your brain to see the answers they're looking for.
Given today's climate, doesn't it seem like that would be a logical step in smoothing things out? If just one police station got the ball rolling, gathering information to use as a baseline in reading cops, I think people around them would feel safer. I'm white and have my own concerns, but I think if I were black, I'd have an increased fear of interacting with a white cop in some areas of this country. Imagine being able to feel safer because all the police around you have been screened and shown that they won't be overly aggressive to you for being you.
Would that not be a smart move? Or is that just asking to open Pandora's Box? Way I see it, we are going to bust that box open at some point in the future.. might as well try to get a jump on using it properly. We could have avoided some rather shitty politicians if we were doing this.