Darpa Wants Remote Controls to Master Troop Minds
Why train when you can just attach puppet strings?
What a potentially extraordinarily bad idea -
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The Pentagon’s blue-sky research arm wants to trick out troops’ brains, from the areas that regulate alertness and cognition to pain treatment and psychiatric well-being. And the scientists want to do it all from the outside in — with a gadget installed inside the troops’ helmets. “Remote Control of Brain Activity Using Ultrasound,” the Defense Department’s Armed with Science blog promises.
It’s the latest out-there project in the military’s growing arsenal of brain-based research. In recent months alone, the Pentagon’s funded projects to optimize troop’s minds, prevent injuries and even preemptively assess cognitive ability and vulnerability to traumatic stress. Now, Darpa’s funding one lab that’s trying to do it all — from boosting troop smarts to preventing traumatic brain injuries.
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While I see and agree with some of your concern
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AdamG
Some of the stuff they talk about seems to very interesting and possibly game changing if in no other way then to be able to do with signals to the brain to affect messaging/signals what something like the shots for someone who's just been exposed to some sort of chemical agent.
Now if someone goes trying to hook up some kinda remote control to me for anything more than that it might be time to start investing in aluminum foil again:D
