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Brain Will Be Battlefield of the Future, Warns US
Anti-Globalism sends this except from the Guardian:
"In a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, leading scientists were asked to examine how a greater understanding of the brain over the next 20 years is likely to drive the development of new medicines and technologies. They found several areas in which progress could have a profound impact, including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person's state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision. ...The report highlights one electronic technique, called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves using electrical pulses to interfere with the firing of neurons in the brain and has been shown to delay a person's ability to tell a lie."
So George Bush has lost that one already.
Time to start working on improving tinfoil hat technology!
We'll make millions!
*Said in my best Revolver Ocelot impersonation*
AC-tivate it!!
"called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves using electrical pulses to interfere with the firing of neurons in the brain and has been shown to delay a person's ability to tell a lie"
Why yes, if I'm being electrocuted, I 'm pretty sure it will delay the ability to think coherently, let alone lie.
Sheesh, why don't they just call it electrocution and call it a day here? I'm sure it was just accidental that they only tested the lie part.
Yes. Once we've gotten their minds, it's their sweet, delicious human hearts that we'll be after.
The Internet is generally stupid
They will not be horrible. You will learn to like them.
So, in 20 years, we'll have various forms of mind control, so we can force immortal (available in 20 years) enemy soldiers to steal the (available in 20 years) fusion powered (available in 20 years) flying cars (available in 20 years) and attack the space elevator (available in 20 years) that supplies our permanent colonies on the moon (available in 20 years)?
The future's looking bright!
From TFA:
On the battlefield, bullets may be replaced with "pharmacological land mines" that release drugs to incapacitate soldiers on contact, ....
Fortunately, our youth appear to have gotten a head start at familiarizing themselves with the effects of such drugs and the training necessary to deal with such tactics.
Imagine the dismay of an enemy that, when interrogating a prisoner using extreme methods is answered every time with,
"Dave's not here."
Have gnu, will travel.
"The human mind: 600 miles of synaptic fiber, 5 and half ounces of cranial fluid, 1500 grams of complex neural matter. A three pound pile of dreams. But I'll tell you what it really is! It is the ultimate battlefield and the ultimate weapon.
The wars of this modern age, the Psychic Age, are all fought somewhere between these damp, curvaceous, undulations.
From this day forward, you are all psychic soldiers, paranormal paratroopers, mental marines who are about to ship out on the adventure of their lives. THIS is our beachhead! And THIS is your landing craft! You shall engage the enemy in his own mentality! You shall chase his dreams! You shall fight his demons! You shall live his nightmares!
And those of you fight well, you will find yourselves on the path to be international secret agents. In other words:
PSYCHONAUTS!"
-Morceau Oleander
The sales demonstrations certainly would be fun. Hook up the sales rep and then start asking questions about the product. :)
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
> Re:Delay a person's ability to tell a lie
> The sales demonstrations certainly would be fun. Hook up the sales rep and then start asking questions about the product. :)
It wouldn't be as interesting as you're imagining. It would just make the demonstration take a lot longer...
Judging by the people I deal with on a daily basis, I think that this battle of the minds could take place on the head of a pin.
This ain't rocket surgery.
I don't know about that, but it seems to me that it has already been on the battlefield. You shoot the enemy in the head, you've effectively "interfered with the firing of neurons in the brain."