I think that Carole Smith as well as Dr. Nick Begich have done excellent work to altert the public of the downside that advances in neuro-techologies have to society and individuals. With every advancement in the neuroscience for health, the military perhaps has already found it and exploited it for different purposes. These expolitations have gone on without oversight, and this fact is perhaps underreported. Military veterans suffering brain injuries have not benefited in significant ways from military nor medical research into neuro-technology, as the goals of such military research seem geared towards other ends. That is unfortuante.

Regulations of these technological developments, and ethical considerations regarding the uses of them calls for congressional bodies to study what the military has discovered, and this requires effort.

The following addresses this:

http://mentalthreats.wordpress.com

Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?…

I never thought about it that way….

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What a utopia you describe.
But for everyone of those illnesses you list – Alzheimer’s disease, addiction, anxiety, autism, depression, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, obesity, Parkinson’s disease, pain, sensory disorders, spinal cord injury, stroke, schizophrenia, sleep disorders, and traumatic brain injury. as well as cancer – hundreds or thousands of innocent citizens have been targeted for experimental research carried out remotely to protect the researcher. Many programmes seek a cure using reverse engineering, whereby the symptoms or illness are artificially manufactured, by destroying the hippocampus and therefore memory , with beamed microwaves, in order to study Alzheimer’s. And the neurotech industries have sanctioned it, exploited government secrecy, and sacrificed lives as well as brains, to make their names and their fortunes out of their innocent victims.

I think this statement by the Air Force Directorate should be widely read and assessed when this brilliant new society is invoked And as you well know, there have been unheralded advances in Neuroscience since 1996.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/vistas/vistas.htm

US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (1996)

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/vistas/vistas.htm. (0.25 seconds)

New World Vistas Air and Space Power for the 21st Century Summary …

“Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be pulsed, shaped, and focused, that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscle movements, control emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both short-term and long-term memory, produce an experience set, and delete an experience set. This will open the door for the development of some novel capabilities that can be used in armed conflict, in terrorist/hostage situations, and in training. New weapons that offer the opportunity of control of an adversary without resorting to a lethal solution or to collateral casualties can be developed around this concept. This would offer significant improvements in the capabilities of our special operation forces. Initial experimentation should be focused on the interaction of electromagnetic energy and the neuromuscular junctions involved in voluntary muscle control. Theories need to be developed, modeled, and tested in experimental preparations. Early testing using in vitro cell cultures of neural networks could provide focus for more definitive intact animal testing. If successful, one could envision a weapon that would render an opponent incapable of taking any meaningful action involving higher motor skills, (e.g. using weapons, operating tracking systems). The prospect of a weapon to accomplish this when targeted against an individual target is reasonable; the prospect of a weapon effective against a massed force would seem to be more remote. Use of such a device in an enclosed area against multiple targets (hostage situation) may be more difficult than an individual target system, but probably feasible.

It would also appear possible to create high fidelity speech in the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion and psychological direction. When a high power microwave pulse in the gigahertz range strikes the human body, a very small temperature perturbation occurs. This is associated with a sudden expansion of the slightly heated tissue. This expansion is fast enough to produce an acoustic wave. If a pulse stream is used, it should be possible to create an internal acoustic field in the 5-15 kilohertz range, which is audible. Thus, it may be possible to “talk” to selected adversaries in a fashion that would be most disturbing to them.”