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Etymology: AS, raedan, to advise
(of a computer) to retrieve or transfer data from some storage location or medium, such as a disk.


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Summers further insists that reading thoughts is "an impossibility.
Never mind? In keeping with the policy of the Humanist to accommodate ... by Hinrichs, Bruce H. / The Humanist
I've been reading thoughts I recorded in journals around that time ten years ago.
Missouri by Bell, Jayne O. / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
But even today, irrespective of such diagnostic advances as CT, MRI, PET, blood flow analyses, glucose and oxygen uptake, and so on, reading thoughts or "mind reading" remains an impossibility; cerebral electrical patterns aren't thoughts but instead manifestations of cerebral physiologic (electrical) dynamics that may occur while a subject thinks but can't be extrapolated beyond configurations and frequencies.
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