This will sound familiar if you've seen Matrix movie. It's been dubbed the future of correctional systems, a new prison concept.
Criminals will be sent into Matrix-style pods where they'll be fitted with a Cognify headset and fed a stream of AI-generated content to create and implant artificial memories. A violent offender may be forced to watch his crime from the victim’s perspective. A drug pusher may be punished with fake memories that simulate the struggles of addiction and recovery. Emotional states like remorse and regret would be triggered. Neurotransmitters and hormones would be tweaked in real time.
The prisoner will be given a choice: Cognify or real prison term? Cognify will last, say, 10 minutes. But the 10 minutes would seem like 10 years to the prisoner. Alternatively, he may choose to serve 10 actual years in a real prison.
Sounds implausible, but scientists have already experimented with memory switch in mice. They switched fearful memories with happy ones. And they've figured out how to code a film clip into the DNA of a bacteria.
Whose idea is all this? A science communicator named Hashem Al-Ghaili. Of course, the idea raises serious ethical concerns, and a thorny legal issue called "neurorights." And what if something goes wrong? Damage may be irreversible.
It's not exactly a novel idea. Satan has been planting memories of sin and magnifying remorse for eons. That's why years after the deed, you're still begging God for forgiveness. You're serving a Cognify term.
The Bible says if you sin against God, confess it, and the blood of Jesus will cleanse you from ALL unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) Believe God. He said: "I don’t keep a list of your sins." (Isaiah 43:25 MSG) Move on!
Criminals will be sent into Matrix-style pods where they'll be fitted with a Cognify headset and fed a stream of AI-generated content to create and implant artificial memories. A violent offender may be forced to watch his crime from the victim’s perspective. A drug pusher may be punished with fake memories that simulate the struggles of addiction and recovery. Emotional states like remorse and regret would be triggered. Neurotransmitters and hormones would be tweaked in real time.
The prisoner will be given a choice: Cognify or real prison term? Cognify will last, say, 10 minutes. But the 10 minutes would seem like 10 years to the prisoner. Alternatively, he may choose to serve 10 actual years in a real prison.
Sounds implausible, but scientists have already experimented with memory switch in mice. They switched fearful memories with happy ones. And they've figured out how to code a film clip into the DNA of a bacteria.
Whose idea is all this? A science communicator named Hashem Al-Ghaili. Of course, the idea raises serious ethical concerns, and a thorny legal issue called "neurorights." And what if something goes wrong? Damage may be irreversible.
It's not exactly a novel idea. Satan has been planting memories of sin and magnifying remorse for eons. That's why years after the deed, you're still begging God for forgiveness. You're serving a Cognify term.
The Bible says if you sin against God, confess it, and the blood of Jesus will cleanse you from ALL unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) Believe God. He said: "I don’t keep a list of your sins." (Isaiah 43:25 MSG) Move on!
This will sound familiar if you've seen Matrix movie. It's been dubbed the future of correctional systems, a new prison concept.
Criminals will be sent into Matrix-style pods where they'll be fitted with a Cognify headset and fed a stream of AI-generated content to create and implant artificial memories. A violent offender may be forced to watch his crime from the victim’s perspective. A drug pusher may be punished with fake memories that simulate the struggles of addiction and recovery. Emotional states like remorse and regret would be triggered. Neurotransmitters and hormones would be tweaked in real time.
The prisoner will be given a choice: Cognify or real prison term? Cognify will last, say, 10 minutes. But the 10 minutes would seem like 10 years to the prisoner. Alternatively, he may choose to serve 10 actual years in a real prison.
Sounds implausible, but scientists have already experimented with memory switch in mice. They switched fearful memories with happy ones. And they've figured out how to code a film clip into the DNA of a bacteria.
Whose idea is all this? A science communicator named Hashem Al-Ghaili. Of course, the idea raises serious ethical concerns, and a thorny legal issue called "neurorights." And what if something goes wrong? Damage may be irreversible.
It's not exactly a novel idea. Satan has been planting memories of sin and magnifying remorse for eons. That's why years after the deed, you're still begging God for forgiveness. You're serving a Cognify term.
The Bible says if you sin against God, confess it, and the blood of Jesus will cleanse you from ALL unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) Believe God. He said: "I don’t keep a list of your sins." (Isaiah 43:25 MSG) Move on!
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