Defense Department funding brain-machine work

[donsu]

http://www.charleston.net/stories/080503/wor_05darpa.shtml

Even by Washington scandal standards, the "terrorism futures" scandal was strange and dramatic.

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What most people don't know is that the Department of Defense is already funding a research program with far creepier implications.

The $24 million enterprise called Brain Machine Interfaces is developing technology that promises to directly read thoughts from a living brain -- and even instill thoughts as well.

The research, some of which is being done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is already surprisingly advanced. Monkeys in a laboratory can control the movement of a robotic arm using only their thoughts. And last year scientists in New York announced they could control the skittering motions of a rat by implanting electrodes in its brain, steering it around the lab floor as if it were a radio-controlled toy car.

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DARPA's brain-machine work, which is unclassified and eventually will be published in scientific journals, attracts scientists because it explores some of the central questions in neuroscience, such as the nature of consciousness and memory, and the neural code the brain uses to store and process information.
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what is it they say? the brain is the last unknown frontier. and granted we need the research to be done BUT not in the hands of the criminal bushgang. It's already terrifying just knowing the gang has their finger on the nuclear button, and now on our brains too.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

1. Better we get the technology first rather than the Chinese.

If brain-reading/control techonology can be weaponized, I want the U.S. to have it first. I don't speak Chinese.

[donsu]

2. perhaps the Fear factor has got to you

the gang wants us to be afraid of China.

the gang does business with China.

wrap those two thoughts around your mind.

[Tammuz]

3. Bush in control of brain technology

Sounds good! (zombie moan)