Brain Warfare

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Interesting, and I would like to read his paper. The idea itself isn't that new - it goes back to Jerry Fodor's The Modularity of the Mind and was picked up by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides and turned into Evolutionary Psychology. The neuroscience version looks like a simple adaptation of their work with a weaponization variant. Still using tailored viruses is tricky and, ultimately, likely to backfire. I wonder why he isn't looking at the software (symbols) instead of the "hardware" (neurons).

Good grief, MarcT. Please don't tell me it is the return of the Fodor-Katz attack. Does this mean I have to go dig out those essay's like "Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness" and "What is it like to be a bat," or Don Dennett's book Brainstorms?
Next thing you know, I'll be reading articles about "spoon benders" and remote viewers in the Pentagon's basement again.