Is mind reading possible?

There are people that claim they have the ability to read the mind of other people.

Actually all the people can read minds, to some extent. We can deduct from the behavior and from answers to questions, what the person we speak with is thinking.

No one can read minds directly, but doing so indirectly is easy. There are many people who claim that they can read minds directly - they can't.

There is one exception - recently I read that scientists succeeded reading minds, by using some sort of MRI brain waves reader, but only after the subject practiced to activate a specific neural path. The machine can't really read thoughts, but can detect when a specific neural path is activated.

 

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