Previously, only one person in all the world could possibly know which percept I was experiencing – me. I could tell you about my experience, but as it remained my experience, you’d have to take my word for it. You’d have no way to check.
Now, today’s advances in artificial intelligence are allowing researchers to find hitherto unseen patterns in the data from fMRI scans of the brain. And thereby researcher can know what you are thinking and know what you are about to do (to a degree).
