What I wonder is if you convince yourself you had a false memory of you doing it or not doing it how would this effect the scan. Would this show up
Like the memories "uncovered" during the Satanic Ritual Abuse / Repressed Memory scare of the 1980/1990s? Where no bodies of sacrificed babies or worldwide conspiracy of satanic cults was uncovered by any impartial investigator, yet there were mountains of books written by evangelical therapists "finding" all these hidden memories in people. The more someone denied it happened the more gruesome and fantastical it really must have been and the more repressed the memories must be. It gave Geraldo something to put on TV and me something to read. But it seemed to be believed by the therapists and sensationalist media more than the actual "victims"... lol!
I suppose if one truly believes anything, be it "false", implanted / imprinted / conditioned, or self imposed, the brainscan could be tricked. This describes the ways we acquire all of our beliefs - beliefs don't drop out of the sky like snowflakes. Believing a "lie" or a "wrong" belief is no different than believing the "truth" or a "correct" belief. It affects the believers mind the same if it has been made true in the mind of the believer. Lie detector tests are cheatable if one has control over their nervous system, which is controlled in large part (maybe even entirely), by the belief system. Do any of us think Bush or any politician would fail a lie detector? I think they'd pass with flying colors - there's a lot can be said for self delusion to the point of believing your own PR (especially when it's your job). Mark Twain said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so. " But I think that what you believe makes it so, as far as
your own nervous system (mindbody connection) even if it's
not so for anyone else operating with their own nervous system.
Say for instance, you believe spiders are all out get you, you're going to react in a very excited fashion when one comes walking by, while everyone else watches
you wig and ignores the apocalyptic threat of the humble daddy long legs. A paramedic & hardcore punk guitar player friend of mine is mortally afraid of spiders from the time our teachers "lost" tarantula made it's dramatic reappearance by climbing up over him once, way back in 1st grade. He can handle bleeding, screaming, gunshot victims at work and perform onstage but a spider nearby makes him become a frighted 7 year old frozen in panic. I'll never forget the time we were at the studio and his band was recording a 7" for my old label and during a break a spider somehow chose
him to drop from the ceiling in front of. None of us could believe his reaction was not a put on until the spider was removed from the area and he explained how it went back to Mrs. Knights tarantula. That's an example of how a belief (spiders = evil) can affect the entire nervous system. All beliefs seem to work in precisely this same way whether it be a phobia or adamantine certainty on something.
I guess in my own rambling way I'm saying if we can fool ourselves into believing everything that we already believe, we can probably do so with a belief / memory we originally believed was untrue / incorrect, so that it's not detectable by a machine. Our minds / beliefs / memories are highly modifiable if we know the techniques. Sadly many people do not take the time to investigate this - I look at it as a form of consciousness self defense. If you understand how others try to impose beliefs on us, we can resist being unwittingly modified by outside forces and be our own modifiers.
Rescources:
Neuropolitics RA Wilson & Tim Leary
Prometheus Rising RA Wilson
Programming the Human Bio Computer John Lilly
Quantum Psychology RA Wilson