
Exposing Lies
Inventors claim that new technologies can ferret out fibbers, but it is unclear what the gear actually reveals
THOMAS METZINGER, a former fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Germany, is a visiting scholar in the philosophy department of the University of California at San Diego. The author of Subjekt und Selbstmodell (Paderborn: mentis), he has edited two major collections of texts on consciousness, Conscious Experience (Paderborn: mentis/Thorverton; UK: Imprint Academic) and Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions (forthcoming, MIT Press).

Exposing Lies
Inventors claim that new technologies can ferret out fibbers, but it is unclear what the gear actually reveals

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