"Lay inside this fMRI machine for an accurate brainscan if you are lying, and image retrieval of the time in question. Or you will be put in jail until you do."
And I also seem to remember a certain dead salmon who in an fMRI, showed amazing brain activity(!).
> "Lay inside this fMRI machine for an accurate brainscan if you are lying, and image retrieval of the time in question. Or you will be put in jail until you do."
Yeah, exactly.
It seems to me that unless we decide that memories stored in digital media is subject to the same sorts of rights against intrusion from the state as memories stored in biological media, the scenario you describe is inevitable precisely because the line between these two types of memory will be increasingly blurred.
"Lay inside this fMRI machine for an accurate brainscan if you are lying, and image retrieval of the time in question. Or you will be put in jail until you do."
And I also seem to remember a certain dead salmon who in an fMRI, showed amazing brain activity(!).