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> What they can’t do is make you remember a code/password which you have “forgotten.”

They might be able to with an FMRI machine.

Maybe at some point in the future, but we definitely aren't at the stage of being able to parse out a specific password from an FMRI reading right now.

No, but combined with torture it might be effective enough.

No, I think that adding torture to the mix will make the FMRI results even less readable

What I was thinking was using FMRI to find out if they actually do remember the password (FMRI lie detection really only works with yes/no questions, AFAIK). If they don't know, then torture is a waste of time. If they do know, then you know torture may be fruitful.

FMRI uses indicators like pulse, heartrate, etc. to make a more or less estimate on the truthfulness. Torture can make these indicators useless. Torture is a very flawed method to extract informations. You can't be sure that the victim isn't telling lies or admits to crimes just to make the torture stop.

They can just ‘538 it. https://xkcd.com/538/

For some, being placed in the MRI would be torture. Hope you don't have a plate in your head or other bodily location. Would torturers be so concerned with this, or is that just part of the threat.

TLA person: Give us the code or we put you the MRI machine!!

Victim: Can't you just use a $5 wrench instead?

In the US at least FMRI should fall under fifth amendment, right? Otherwise the fifth amendment would be useless. A right to remain silent wouldn’t exist if you can’t silence your brain. If one day there are stargate replicators that can reach into your mind, would that be legal?

In court, absolutely.

There are still plenty of places where polygraph examinations are used legally.

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