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Essay / Wishful Thinking in Courtrooms: The Memory Extractor
The Memory Extractor is a machine that can detect your episodic memories and display them on a screen. The memory extractor will locate your prefrontal cortex and temporal lobe where memories of recent events and new data are stored. By connecting a person to electrodes, the machine can read what's happening in your prefrontal cortex and temporal lobe and represent them on a screen. During trials, the accused will be connected to the machine while seeing images of the crime scene. The accused will think about what happened in these images, thus recalling memories of the crime. This machine could shorten the length of trials and spare many people significant jury duty. Memory extraction trials are taking place every day across the United States. Trials last from a few days to several months. The longest trial lasted thirty months. The tests are stressful and annoying. Witnesses are called to the stand to be questioned about everything related to the crime. Even if witnesses are sworn to tell the truth, it is very easy to be dishonest. Worse still, citizens are required to participate in these trials. Many find this inconvenient given that they will have to take time off work to attend a trial that could last a very long time. Additionally, the longer the trials take, the more money taxpayers have to pay. Current Technology The current technology used in some courtrooms is a polygraph. As "Discovery Channel" noted, a polygraph is a "machine made up of devices that detect and measure blood pressure, heart rate, electrodermal activity and respiratory rate." (www.curiosity.discovery.com). During an interview or interrogation, a person will be plugged into the machine and asked questions... in the middle of a sheet of paper..." the recording will play when asked questions about it later These people created a false memory because an investigator told them about it. This means that if they manage to create a false memory of what happened at the crime scene, the machine could then detect this false memory. If this happens, then an innocent person could appear to be the one who committed the crime. This is why it is crucial to obtain the memories as soon as possible so that false memories do not occur. are not stored in the brain, making an innocent person appear guilty us/longest-trial-post-mortem-collapse-child-abuse-case-so-much-agony-for-so-little.html?pagewanted=all&src=. pmhttp://curiosity.discovery.com/question/where- brain-store-our-memorieshttp://www.dailytech.com/Japanese+Dream+Machine+Can+Visualize+Your+Dreams+With+50+Percent+ Accuracy/article30291.htm