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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Are Your Thoughts Safe?
Description: Neuroscientists know more about how the brain works than ever before; unlocking the brain's potential could transform our world.
In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so." In turn, that implies that to control someone’s thoughts would create the possibility of controlling their actions, for good or for evil. Until recently, such control was the stuff of science fiction. But, that is changing.
Neuroscientists today know more about how the brain works than ever before; unlocking the brain's potential could transform our world. Achieving what from today's perspective would be su...