Brain Scan
A brain scan entails the conduction of a magnetic resonance image, which provides detailed images about the brain. While individuality of a person is the character or the behaviour in the way, they conduct things or think in particular situations. According to a journal published in New York Times about a “Search for Self in a Brain (2014) “St Louis knew that the brain scan would not aid in finding his identity. The connectome project hopes that after a series of brain analyses and analyzation of neural data, maybe it can help predict possible individuality associated with specific neural data characteristics.
A magnetic resonance brain scan provides information about the structure of the brain and detects other developments such as tumours that could be possibly developing in the brain. The brain scan does not analyze how people think, their behaviour, nor perception of emotions (Gorman 2014). Furthermore, a brain scan can provide images of the genome of an individual. Still, it cannot analyze data; the data obtained from the scan cannot determine the character of an individual.
The brain scan results in the connectome project provided images about the structure of the brain, but it was impossible to read and analyze the character of the individual. The connectome project cannot identify an individual character via a brain scan but instead are interested in collecting data and determining the brain characteristics associated with particular brain structure (Gorman 2014). The reason as to why it is impossible to obtain the identity of an individual in a brain scan is that the character of an individual is not in the genome but instead is determined by the physical and development of situations, which differ from person to person.
Works Cited
Gorman, James. “A Search for Self in a Brain Scan.” The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia, 7 Jan. 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/science/a-search-for-self-in-a-brain-scan.html. Accessed 15 Feb. 2019.