Brain Warfare

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Brain Warfare - An item from yesterday's Inside the Ring (Washington Times) by Bill Gertz.

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).