Microwave Mind Control Symptoms & Published Evidence
[Editor's Note: The following report from Cheryl Welsh provides a listing
of some of the reported symptoms of electronic microwave mind control technologies,
published evidence of their existence, and demonstrated military interest
and/or funding for these technologies. Many of these electronic mind control
develpoments were perfected at Montauk, Long Island in the 1960's, 70's, and
80's in a privately funded operation known as The Montauk Project.
Al Bielek, Preston Nichols, Peter Moon, Stewart Swerdlow, and others have
written and reported extensively on the details of this project. These energies
can be beamed to large populations from aircraft, helicopters, satellites,
and land-based
microwave towers, which have proliferated worldwide at an explosive rate
in the past two years. For more background info on mind control, read our
introductory page Mind Control,
The Ultimate Terror (http://educate-yourself.org/mc/) ...Ken Adachi]
by Cheryl Welsh <welsh@dcn.davis.ca.us>
http://educate-yourself.org/mc/listofmcsymptoms05jun03.shtml
March, 2003
Reported Symptoms
1. Microwave hearing
2. Transmission of specific commands into the subconscious
3. Visual disturbances, visual hallucinations
4. Inject words, numbers into brain via electromagnetic radiation waves
5. Manipulation of emotions
6. Reading thoughts remotely
7. Causing pain to any nerve of the body.
8. Remote manipulation of human behavior from space
9. Harassment, stress symptoms such as helicopters flying overhead
10. Seeing, as in a camera, through your eyes, i.e. to see what you see exactly
11. Control of sleep patterns.
12. Computer-brain interface, control and communication
13. Complex control of the brain such as retrieving memories, implanting personalities
Symptoms, Published Evidence, and Military
Interest/Funding
Symptom
1. Microwave hearing. The hearing of voices in the head from an outside
source, but nobody else can hear the voices except the targeted individual.
Published Evidence
A. Ultrascience III, Spies are us. Featured Dr. James C. Lin, Ph.D..
biomedical and electrical engineer, educator, author of Microwave Auditory
Effects and Applications, 1978. Lin demonstrated microwave
hearing, a symptom of many of the victims, hearing voices. Also featured
Cheryl Welsh on the issue of mind control experimentation.
B. International Defense Review, 3-1-1993,
Special Operations Survives Pentagon budget Constraints, by Ramon
Lopez.
“JASORS, Joint Advanced Special Operations Radio
System is being developed by Harris Corporation. ...is a very ambitious,
leading-edge technology program, ...Whiles JASORS is a near-term SOF,
[Special Operations Forces] enhancement, SORDAC, [Special Operations Research
Development and Acquisition Center], is also investigating long-range
(1998-2010) and “far-future” (2011 and beyond) weaponry and
support equipment. [SORDAC’s director, Army Colonel Douglas J.]
Richardson said one far-future communications system being investigated
is “synthetic telepathy.” One day, SOF commandos
may be capable of communicating through thought processes.”
C. Margo Cherney FOIA request for complete NASA abstract
Report Number: AD-A090426, June 1, 1980. Response
from Brooks Air Force Base, Jan.25, 2000: The requested information
is fully denied under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(1)... NASA abstract in part
stated,
“A decoy and deception concept presently being considered
is to remotely create the perception of noise in the heads of personnel
by exposing them to low power, pulsed microwave. When people are illuminated
with properly modulated low power microwaves the sensation is reported
as a buzzing, clicking, or hissing which seems to originate (regardless
of the person’s position in the field) within or just behind the
head. The phenomena occurs at average power densities as low as microwatts
per square centimeter with carrier frequencies from 0.4 to 3.0 GHz. [within
frequency range of 400 MegaHertz (MHz) to 3 GigaHertz] By proper choice
of pulse characteristics, intelligible speech may be created. Before this
technique may be extended and used for military applications, an understanding
of the basic principles must be developed. Such an understanding is not
only required to optimize the use of the concept for camouflage, decoy
and deception operations but is required to properly assess safety factors
of such microwave exposure.”
D. Microwave News, editor, Louis Slesin, Jan/Feb
1997 p 14. U.S. Air Force Looks to the Battlefields
of the Future: Electromagnetic Fields That Might "Boggle the Mind"
"It would also appear possible to create high fidelity
speech in the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion
and psychological direction. When a high power microwave pulse in the
GHz range strikes the human body, a very small temperature perturbation
occurs. This is associated with a sudden expansion of the slightly heated
tissue. This expansion is fast enough to produce an acoustic wave. If
a pulse stream is used, it should be possible to create an internal acoustic
field in the 5-15 kHz range, which is audible. Thus it may be possible
to “talk” to selected adversaries in a fashion that would
be most disturbing to them."
E. Federal Times, Dec. 13, 1976Microwave Weapons Study by Soviets Cited: The Defense Intelligence
Agency has released a report on heavy Communist research on microwaves,
including their use as weapons. Microwaves are used in radar, television
and microwave ovens. They can cause disorientation and possibly heart attacks
in humans. Another biological effect with possible anti-personnel uses is
' microwave hearing.'
"Sounds and possibly even words which appear to be
originating intracranially (within the head) can be induced by signal
modulation at very low average power densities," the report said.
According to the study, Communist work in this area "has great potential
for development into a system for disorienting or disrupting the behavior
patterns of military or diplomatic personnel."
No mention was made of the still-unexplained microwave bombardment
of the American Embassy in Moscow. The study dealt largely with long-term
exposure of days or weeks in industrial situations, which usually produce
mild effects. Short exposure to intense radiation can cause heart seizure
and a wide range of physical disorders.
Military interest or funding
A . Yes. See above.
Symptom
2. Transmission of specific commands into the subconscious
Published Evidence
A. Defense News, US Explores Russian Mind Control Technology by
Barbara Opall January, 11-17-1993, p. 4.
”Pioneered by the government-funded Department of
Psycho-Correction at the Moscow Medical Academy, acoustic psycho-correction
involves the transmission of specific commands via static or whitenoise
bands into the human subconscious without upsetting other intellectual
functions. Experts said laboratory demonstrations have shown encouraging
results after exposure of less than one minute."
B. Janet Morris, reported in the book, The Sorcerer's
Challenge : Fears and Hopes for the Weapons of the Next Millennium,
by David Shukman. London : Hodder & Stoughton, page 223. of demonstration
shown on BBC television on news program entitled Newsnight by David
Shukman, (tape available on request).
C. U.S. News, January 3-10, 2000,
John Norseen [Lockheed Martin neuroengineer in Intelligent Systems Division],
Reading your Mind and Injecting Smart Thoughts by Douglas Pasternak.
"Norseen's interest in the brain stems from a Soviet
book he read in the mid-1980s, claiming that research on the mind would
revolutionize the military and society at large. [He] coined the term
"Biofusion" to cover his plans to map and manipulate [the brain]
leading to advances in ...national security... and ...would be able to
convert thoughts into computer commands by deciphering the brain's electrical
activity. BioFusion would reveal the fingerprints of the brain by using
mathematical models, [Smirnov's computer program uses mathematical models
also]. It sound crazy,...The National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ...have all awarded...research
contracts to Norseen. Norseen is waiting to hear if the second stage of
these contracts-portions of them classified- comes through. Norseen's
theories are grounded in current science. ...By MRI [Magnetic Resonant
Imaging], scientists can tell what the person was doing at the time of
the recording...Emotions from love to hate can be recognized from the
brain's electrical activity. ...Norseen predicts profiling by
brain print will be in place by 2005. ...Norseen
would like to draw upon Russian brain-mimicking software and American
brain -mapping breakthroughs to allow that communication to take place
in a less invasive way. A modified helmet could record a pilot's brainwaves.
'When you say right 090 degrees...the computer would see that electrical
pattern in the brain and turn the plane 090 degrees. If the pilot misheard
instructions to turn 090 degrees and was thinking "080 degrees,"
the helmet would detect the error, then inject the right number via electromagnetic
waves.'"
Military interest or funding
A Yes, Defense Electronics, DOD, Intel Agencies Look at Russian
Mind Control... by Mark Tapscott, July, 1993 p. 17.
“In a series of closed meetings...FBI officials
were briefed on the decade-long research on a computerized acoustic
device allegedly capable of implanting thoughts in a person’s
mind without that person being aware of the thought.”
Also, US corp. buys Russian mind control equipment.
Published Evidence
A. CNN TV: A demonstration by Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher and
Dr. William van Bise, directed magnetic signals into the
brain of reporter Chuck DeCaro. They created visual images as in a hallucination.
This program also features Dr. Robert O. Becker, two time
Nobel prize nominee, scientist and researcher of electromagnetic radiation
effects on the body and author of Body Electric, summarized, “The
government has never disproved the psychological effects of electromagnetic
radiation. ”Dr. Robert Becker commented “that this is a substantial
step forward in the understanding how the visual system works” and
would be a powerful weapon if used on fighter pilots while trying to fly."
For a 55$ copy of this tape call CNN at 404-827-2712 and ask
for R2501 #13, R2747 #33, R2501 #15, R2501-#17. It runs about 20 minutes.
Military interest or funding
A . Yes. See above.
Symptom
4. Inject words, numbers into brain via emr waves
Published Evidence
A . Defense News, US Explores Russian Mind Control Technology by
Barbara Opall January, 11-17-1993, p. 4.
“Experts said laboratory demonstrations have shown
encouraging results after exposure of less than one minute.”
B. U.S. News, 1-3-2000, John Norseen, Reading and
changing your mind...ibid see Symptom 2, section C.
C. Lobster Magazine, Mind Control and the American
Government by Martin Cannon, Number 23. J.F. Schapitz was conducting classified
work on microwaving the subconscious with commands as in hypnosis. This
work is classified.
Military interest or funding
A Defense News, US Explores Russian Mind Control Technology by
Barbara Opall January, 11-17-1993, p. 4.
“Moreover, decades of research and investment of
untold millions of rubles in the process of psycho-correction has produced
the ability to alter behavior on willing and unwilling subjects, the
experts add. ...Russian senior research scientist, diplomats, ...are
beginning to provide limited demonstrations for their U.S. counterparts.
Further evaluations of key technologies in the United States are being
planned, as are discussions aimed at creating a frame-work for bringing
the issue under bilateral or multilateral controls, U.S. and Russian
sources say.”
Symptom
5. Manipulation of emotions
Published Evidence
A. Ultrascience, Weapons of War, The Learning Channel, 1997,
Featured Dr. Michael Persinger, Laurentian University,
Canada. Dr. Persinger described weapons using "psycho or influence
technology" and electromagnetic radiation frequencies to control what
people think, for psychological warfare purposes.
B. Ultrascience, War 2020, Beyond Productions, The Learning Channel,
1998, with Dr. Michael Persinger, Laurentian University
performed a demonstration of a helmet with solenoids which induce magnetic
fields into the brain and cause panic, fear, God and UFO experiences.
He stated that with current technology it is possible to use mind
control on the mass populations.
Military interest or funding
A . Yes. See above.
Symptom
6. Reading thoughts remotely
Published Evidence
A. Nature Vol 391/22Januray 1998Advances
in Neuroscience May Threaten Human Rights by Declan Butler .
"..at the annual public meeting of the French national
bioethics committee held last week in Paris... Jean-Pierre Changeux,
the chairman of the committee and a neuroscientist at the Institut Pasteur
in Paris, told the meeting that understanding the working of the human
brain is likely to become one of the most ambitious and rich disciplines
of the future. But neuroscience also poses potential risks, he said, arguing
that advances in cerebral imaging make the scope for invasion of privacy
immense. Although the equipment needed is still highly specialized, it
will become commonplace and capable of being used at a distance, he predicted.
That will open the way for abuses such as invasion of personal liberty,
control of behaviour and brainwashing. These are far from being science-fiction
concerns, said Changeux, and constitute "a serious risk to society".
"Denis LeBihan, a researcher at the French Atomic Energy Commission,
told the meeting that the use of imaging techniques has reached the stage
where "we can almost read people's thoughts".
B. Signal Magazine, October, 2001,article titled Decoding Minds by Dr. John D. Norseen, of Lockheed
Martin stated ,
"We are at the point where this database has been
developed enough that we can use a single electrode or something like
an airport security system where there is a dome above our head to get
enough information that we can know the number you’re thinking,"
C. US News and World Report Jan 3-10, 2000,
Reading your Mind and Injecting Smart Thoughts by Douglas Pasternak,
p. 67 quotes John Norseen,
“...Norseen’s theories are grounded in current
science.”
D. The Washington Times, August 17, 2002,
the article entitled NASA Plans to Read Terrorist’s Minds at Airport
stated,
"Airport security screeners may soon try to read the
minds of travelers to identify terrorists. Officials of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration [NASA] have told Northwest Airlines security
specialists that the agency is developing brain-monitoring devices in
cooperation with a commercial firm, which it did not identify. Space technology
would be adapted to receive and analyze brain-wave and heartbeat patterns,
then feed that data into computerized programs 'to detect passengers who
potentially might pose a threat,' according to briefing documents obtained
by The Washington Times. NASA wants to use 'noninvasive neuro-electric
sensors,' imbedded in gates, to collect tiny electric signals that all
brains and hearts transmit. Computers would apply statistical algorithms
to correlate physiologic patterns with computerized data on travel routines,
criminal background and credit information from 'hundreds to thousands
of data sources,' NASA documents say. ...Robert Park, spokesman for the
American Physical Society stated, 'We’re close to the point
where they can tell to an extent what you’re thinking about by which
part of the brain is activated, which is close to reading your mind. ...The
idea is plausible, he says, but frightening'.
E. Science Digest 7-84 page 30 quoting Thomas Jensen
of Chicago’s Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, and
Donald York
"we have discovered that just before a person says
a particular word, the brain emits waves peculiar to that word alone.
...These waves are the same from person to person."
F. Think, Sept/Oct 1992 Dr. Richard
Clark at the Flinders University of South Australia wrote the following:
"Artificial neural network computer programs are used
to include the ability to learn and recognize simple patterns of thought
from the electrical fields of the brain."
G. Science Digest Oct. 1981 entitled
Machines that read Minds by Gary Selden stated that
"Indeed, CIA spokespeople have admitted ‘following’
ERP [This is the waveform that the brain characteristically emits after
absorbing an external event] research, perhaps the way the agency followed
LSD research in the 1950s. ...With remote monitors, such an instrument
would be a spy’s dream." It is naive to think that the CIA
has not exploited this research.
H. Nature, 1-22-1998 The national
bioethics committee is taking such threats so seriously that it is launching
a study. The title of this article was Advances in Neuroscience May
Threaten Human Rights. Denis Le Bihan, a researcher at the French Atomic
Energy Commission, stated
"we can almost read people’s thoughts".
I. New Scientist, 12-11-1999 Vol.
164, No. 2216 page 25 by Graham-Rowe, Ducan, described the technology as
a computer programmed under the notion that most people behave in predictable
ways when walking to their car. This behavior is transferred into a mathematical
pattern and the computer recognizes it as such.
"Anyone who deviates from this set pattern, such as
someone who walks in circles or who lurks in shadows, will set off an
alarm..."
This is just a small example of human behavior and how it
is studied scientifically. No doubt with the political will and the money
of national security defense, as victims are alleging, human behavior has
been studied and is controlled by government technology.
Military interest or funding
A. Yes, government funded. U.S News and World Report, Jan 3-10,
2000, John Norseen, Reading Your Mind and Injecting Smart Thoughts
by Douglas Pasternak, p. 67
“...It sounds crazy, but Uncles Sam is listening.
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, The Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, and the Army’s National Ground Intelligence
Center have all awarded small basic research contracts to Norseen, who
works for Lockheed-Martin’s Intelligent Systems Division. Norseen
is waiting to hear if the second stage of these contracts -portions
of them classified-come through. "
Symptom
7. Causing pain to any nerve of the body
Published Evidence
A . Bulletin of Atomic Scientist, Sept 1994, Softkill
Fallacy by Steve Aftergood, Page 45. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg writes:
“Many of the non-lethal weapons under consideration
utilize infrasound or electromagnetic energy (including lasers, microwave
or radio-frequency radiation, or visible light pulsed at brain-wave
frequency) for their effects. These weapons are said to cause temporary
or permanent blinding, interference with mental processes, modification
of behavior and emotional response, seizures, severe pain, dizziness,
nausea and diarrhea, or disruption of internal organ functions in various
other ways."
B. Marine Corps Times, March 5, 2001, p. 10.,
The People Zapper by C. Mark Brinkley,
“...focuses energy into a beam of micromillimeter
waves designed to stop an individual in his tracks. ...The energy, which
falls near microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum, causes moisture
in a person’s skin to heat up rapidly, creating a burning sensation...”
Military Interest or funding
A . Yes, government funding and very heavily discussed.
Symptom
8. Remote manipulation of human behavior from space
Published Evidence A.Journal of Microwave Power, 12(4)
1977, p. 320. Radiation Bioeffects Research by
Dodge and Glaser,
“The information explosion in this field has been
quite dramatic since 1969, when the international data base was estimated
to consist of less than 1,000 citations. In addition to maintaining inventories
of the literature, we have undertaken from time to time to provide assessments
of international trends in research, development, and occupational health
and safety. In the present paper, we will concentrate on events which
have transpired since our last review effort in 1975. Major events which
have taken place during that period include: ...(5) Unpublished analyses
of microwave bioeffects literature which were disseminated to Congress
and to other officials arguing the case for remote control of human behavior
by radar;
B. Moscow Rabochaya Tribuna, Nov. 26, 1994,
FBIS, Ref # MM3011130594 Psychotronic Arms Potential Must be Monitored,
by Anatoliy Pushenko, member of the Russian Federation of Space Exploration
Scientific and Technical Council:
“ A prominent specialist speaks for the first time
in our press in Rabochaya Tribuna about psychotropic weapons, which started
to be developed in the sixties--space-based energy systems capable
of killing every living thing on the planet and driving millions of people
crazy. ... There are frequencies that are beneficial to people, but
naturally there are also those which are hazardous. ...That is, it has
a direct physical effect on the human brain. ... The terrible
danger of psychotropic weapons is the possibility of their simultaneously
and unequivocally affecting large masses of people over huge areas.
C. Moscow Armeyskiy Sbornik, Oct. 1996, No. 10. P.
88-98, FBIS, Russian article, Mori DocID: 587170, Russia: National Information
Security by Russian Major General, Valeriy Menshikov, doctor of technical
sciences, and Colonel Boris Rodionov.,
“...Thus, the new space systems are potentially dangerous
from the aspect of unfolding a wide-scale ‘information war’
and even creating global systems for controlling people’s
behavior in any region, ...”
D. FBIS [Foreign Broadcast Information Service] article by
Alain Gossens: Apocalypse Now? HAARP... report from Brussels Telemoustique,
1997, FBIS MoriDocID 587140, scientists, weapons experts,
EU members on U.S HAARP Project
“Are the Americans currently developing a vast
weapons system capable of scanning the entrails of the earth to seek
out secret bases, jamming any form of radio communications, influencing
human behavior... Nevertheless, if one is aware of the fact that the
real sponsors are the Navy, the Air Force,
and the Department of Defense, then it is hard to believe
that it is not a project for military purposes.”
Military interest or funding
A . Probably. See tracking of airplanes, tracking by GPS. Satellites capable
of taking pictures of license plates, etc.
Symptom
9. Harassment, stress symptoms such as helicopters flying overhead
Published Evidence
A .The Sorcerer's Challenge : Fears and Hopes for the Weapons of the
Next Millennium, Shukman, David, London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1995,
P. 225 [Ref. Waco siege in 1993]
“The best they [FBI] they could do was to maintain
a barrage of noise with helicopters and loudspeakers to keep the followers
awake and to try to undermine their [Koresh and follower’s} morale.”
B. Aviation Week & Space Technology 1-19-1998
p.55 on information warfare and US capabilities.
"...techniques as esoteric as ‘mapping the psychological
and cognitive makeup’ of foreign leaders or key groups in order
to predict reactions to manipulated information, ..." .
C. Aviation Week & Space Technology 3-9-1998,
page 21 stated that [ref. USAF Gen. John Jumper]
"Jumper talked about tools that could...make potential
enemies see, hear and believe things that don’t exist"
The military is discussing the deployment of weapons to do
just that, create symptoms of mental illness. And yet this information is
not taken seriously by professionals and has not been accepted as relevant
to victim’s allegations.
D. Excerpts from CAHRA website: www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~welsh
.Quotes from military journals and government document:
1.“...to control the will and perception of adversaries
...by applying a regime of shock and awe...It is about effecting behavior.”
2. “A decoy and deception concept [using microwaves]
to “create intelligible speech ‘ in the head, ‘raising
the possibility of covert suggestion and psychological direction.”
3. “tools that could...make potential enemies see,
hear and believe things that don’t exist.”
4. “...crowd control and urban warfare devices that
temporarily could paralyze an entire village.”
Military interest and funding
A . Yes. See above.
Symptom
10. Seeing, as in a camera, through your eyes, i.e. to see what you see
exactly
Published Evidence
A. BBC News Online Oct 11, 1999, Looking Through
Cats' Eyes Fuzzy, But Recognizable, Dr. David Whitehouse, A BBC News
article reported on the first pictures from an experiment to see through
the eyes of a cat. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid
471000/471786.stm
Military interest and feasibility
10. Unknown.
Symptom
11. Control of sleep patterns
Published Evidence
A. CNN news broadcast, Special Assignment, Nov.-1985, by
Chuck DeCaro, Weapons of War, Is there an RF Gap?Dr. Ross
Adey discussed a demonstration of the 1950s Russian Lida
machine, which used electromagnetic energy to put Russian psychiatric
patients to sleep, as a substitute for tranquilizers and to treat neurotic
disturbances. Dr. Adey stated that it worked on cats and dogs and put them
to sleep.
B. The Defense and Foreign Affairs Daily, Jun 7,
1983, Vol. XII, Number 104, Psy-War: Soviet Device
Experiment by Dr. Stefan T. Possony reported: “...Dr. Ross Adey,
chief of research at Loma Linda...started testing the machine [the Lida]...the
device is on loan to Dr. Ross Adey. ‘The machine is technically described
as ‘a distant pulse treatment apparatus. It generates 40 megahertz
radiowaves which stimulate the brain’s electromagnetic activity
at substantially lower frequencies”
Military interest or funding
A. Yes. . The Defense and Foreign Affairs Daily, Jun 7, 1983,
Vol. XII, Number 104, Psy-War: Soviet Device Experiment by Dr. Stefan
T. Possony.
“...On April 29, 1983 this author, as a participant
in a panel at the Defense ‘83 conference sponsored by Defense
and Foreign Affairs, reported on Dr. Adey’s work...These remarks
were delivered to a panel studying psychological warfare.”
Symptom
12. Computer-brain interface, control and communication
Published Evicence
A. APPROPRIATION/BUDGET ACTIVITY RDT&E, Defense-wide BA2 Applied Research
R-1 ITEM NOMENCLATURE Computing Systems and Communications Technology
PE 0602301E, Project ST-19 The Augmented Cognition (AugCog) program will
develop the means to measure a subject’s cognitive state in real time
and manipulate it to accomplish the functions. The goal of the Augmented
Cognition program is to develop methods that integrate digital devices that
support memory, perception, and thinking, and link that support with the
user’s context state information to directly improve the overall cognitive
performance of the warfighter. The Perceptual Processing Display program
focuses on exploiting neuroscience and perceptual processing technologies
to redesign devices that deliver information to the human perceptual system.
These new devices will be able to extract relevant signal from extraneous
background noise, through perceptual modeling. This program will develop
technologies that simplify relevant, and eliminate irrelevant, information
to improve perception, comprehension, memory, inference, and decision-making.
Specifically, this program will demonstrate the manipulation of perceptual
data along hundreds of dimensions of the human perceptual system, and will
result in the doubling of human information processing performance. http://www.darpa.mil/body/pdf/FY03BudEst.pdf
Military interest
12. Yes. See above.
Symptom
13. Complex control of the brain such as retrieving memories, implanting
personalities
List of Participants and Contributors included NASA,
Office of Navel Research, DARPA, Sandia
National Labs, USAF Research Labs, Ratheon,
Lucent Technologies, MIT and Stanford.
i. Expanding Human Cognition and Communication. Page
85.
“...Truly, the mind is the final frontier, and unraveling
its mysteries will have tremendous practical benefits. ...Failure to invest
in the necessary multidisciplinary research would delay or even prevent
these benefits to the economy, to national security, and to individual
well-being. Rapid recent progress in cognitive science and related fields
has brought us to the point where we could achieve several breakthroughs
that would be of great value to mankind. ...For example, progress in the
cognitive neuroscience of the human brain has been achieved through new
research methodologies, based in both biology and information science,
such as functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) and infrared sensors.
However, we are reaching the resolution limits of current instrumentation,
for example because of concerns about the safety of human research subjects
(Food and Drug Administration 1998), so progress will stall quickly unless
breakthroughs in NBIC can give us research tools with much greater resolution,
sensitivity, and capacity to analyze data.”
ii. Page 86. The Human Cognome Project.
“It is time to launch a Human Cognome Project, comparable
to the successful Human Genome Project, to chart the structure and functions
of the human mind. No project would be more fundamental to progress throughout
science and engineering, or would require a more complete unification
of NBIC sciences. ...While the research would include a complete mapping
of the connections in the human brain, it would be far more extensive
than neuroscience. ...Some participants in the human cognition and communication
working group were impressed by the long-term potential for uploading
aspects of individual personality to computers and robots, thereby expanding
the scope of human experience, action, and longevity.”
iii. Page 88. Statements and Visions
." Participants in the human cognition and communication
panel contributed a number of statements, describing the current situation
and suggesting strategies for building upon it, as well as transformative
visions of what could be accomplished in ten or twenty years through a
concentrated effort.”
iv. Page 287 National Security, Theme Summary.
. “...Investment in convergent Nanotechnology, Biotechnology,
Information technology and Cognitive science [NBIC] is expected to result
in innovative technologies that revolutionize many domains of conflict
and peacekeeping. ...As former Defense Secretary William J. Perry has
noted, these are the technological breakthroughs that are 'Changing the
face of war and how we prepare for war.' There are numerous special programs,
reports and presentations that address these goals. The Department of
Defense has designated nanoscience as a strategic research area in order
to accelerate the expected benefits (Murday 1999). ...Applications of
brain-machine interface. The convergence of all four NBIC fields will
give warfighters the ability to control complex entities by sending control
actions prior to thoughts (cognition) being fully formed. The intent is
to take brain signals (nanotechnology for augmented sensitivity and nonintrusive
signal detection) and use them in a control strategy (information technology),
and then impart back into the brain the sensations of feedback signals
(biotechnology).”
B. In Approaching the 21st Century: Opportunities for
NIMH Neuroscience Research, The National Advisory Mental Health
Council Report to Congress on the Decade of the Brain, Jan. 1988
by USHHS. Page 49 stated
"Several investigators had noted that when neurons
were given brief but intense high-frequency stimulation their electrical
properties were changed in ways that would fit those proposed for memory:
The changes were triggered by an electrical event, they were strengthened
by repetition, and they persisted indefinitely. ...the scientists found
that intense high-frequency pulses trigger an unusually large release
of calcium in the post synaptic cell..."
Military interest or funding
14. Yes. See above.
(Thank you to those who sent me much of this information: Tessa
Puglia, Harlan Girard, Margo Cherney, and John Ginter.)
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