Can a Satellite See... a Human Thought?

Can a Satellite or atmospheric or ground-based machines see, hear, "touch", "taste", and "smell" a thought and convert it to language and image? How accurately? With or without obstructions? At what scope? Predict behavior? Enhance thoughts? Transmit thoughts? Educate a person? Cure disease? Cause disease? Cause pain? Cause happiness?...

If so, which agencies by country have access to this technology? What is the law regarding psychotronics in each country? Are the answers to all these questions classified?

If certain foods or medications enhance brain function, why not have satellites enhance the brain function of everybody.

Originally posted by GreatTech
Can a Satellite or atmospheric or ground-based machines see, hear, "touch", "taste", and "smell" a thought and convert it to language and image?

No, there are currently no technologies that can read the human brain
that accurately, and even when they become accurate enough to do so,
such machines will have to be physically connected to the individual.

Predict behavior? Educate a person? Cure disease? Cause disease? Cause pain? Cause happiness?...

If a sufficiently advanced computer was programmed with the data about
an individual, there habits, psychology etc., it could make a very good
prediction about how they will act, it's not reading there mind of course,
but it would be able to predict a persons response within a very high
percentage with enough data.

Theoretically machines that transfer data, such as educational material
are possible, but they would have to be either physically connected to
the individual or very close to them for a certain amount of time.

Disease can only be cured by chemical medicine, or in the future
micro/nano technology.
However, one can trick themselves into thinking they are healed, even
though they are not, this is the mechanism behind the placebo effect
and so called 'faith healing'.

It is possible in the future to be able to induce pain, pleasure or pretty
much any feeling like that in a person if the right technology was used,
though this would'nt be something that you could use from a satellite or
any non-connected system.

Originally posted by iori_komei

No, there are currently no technologies that can read the human brain
that accurately, and even when they become accurate enough to do so,
such machines will have to be physically connected to the individual.

Are not satellites that can see and hear the earth already physically connected with people?

I have visions of many new technologies with satellites and other machines that do not require close proximity, but they must enhance the brain function and other parts of the body of everybody.

yeah, this one is pretty much not happening in my mind, but i stay open to the thought. i can maybe see some of this in the near future. technological advances are made everyday. but, human emotions and senses just don't seem duplicable to me, but maybe i'm wrong, but thats just my opinion. i would like to hear what people who know more on the subject have to say.

Originally posted by GreatTech
Are not satellites that can see and hear the earth already physically connected with people?

No, they are not.

Any and all information a satellite connects is beamed via data-link back
to its command center.

A satellite basically just watches and takes pictures/videos of things,
it does not interact with things on the ground, apart from data
transmission.

I have visions of many new technologies with satellites and other machines that do not require close proximity, but they must enhance the brain function and other parts of the body of everybody.

For something to enhance a person it has to physically effect it,
like drugs, and in the future genetic enhancement.

iori_komei, what about telemedicine? The Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dicionary (2001) defines it as "the diagnosis and treatment of patients in remote areas using medical information, as x-rays or television pictures, transmitted over long distances, esp. by satellite."

Google telemedicine. One way to link with good information is to google "telemedicine definition" and use its links.

medicine is a very different thing.

Telemedicine, the medical application of telepresence, is using
audio/visual and robotics technology to perform medical procedures
while not having to actually be there.


Basically it's like this.

Dr. Goji is a neuro-biologist at Hiroshima Memorial hospital who
specializes in a rare kind of brain tumor.

Now, Bob Jones, who lives in New York is admitted to the Manhattan
Hospital after falling over unconscious during a business meeting.

It's found out that Bob Jones has a rare kind of brain tumor, and Dr. Goji
is one of the few people in the world who knows enough about it to be
able to do successful surgery, however because of various reasons Dr. Goji
can not fly to New York to perform the operation.

Luckily though both hospitals are equipped with Telemedicine facilities,
so Dr. Goji goes and gets ready in Hiroshima, and they set up the special
robotic system in Manhattan.

Dr. Goji than uses a mixture of augmented reality and virtual control
mechanisms to manipulate the robot.
And in the end succeeds

Dr. Goji has there-by performed an operation in Manhattan while in
Hiroshima.

That is what telemedicine is.

[edit on 5/6/2007 by iori_komei]