The War on Our Brains - Neuro-manipulation
Spartacus answers my questions
A young friend interested in bio-tech asked how much progress has been made in manipulating neurons/brains via wireless tech. Spartacus kindly provided sources and an executive summary:
There is a lot of info out there on this. Look up Rice University's MOANA and Battelle's BrainSTORMs, as well as DARPA's N3 program in general. You can pull up a lot on wireless BCI tech using "nanotransducers for neuromodulation" as keywords. Basically, nanotransducers are tiny nanoparticles (around ~20nm in size, smaller than a virus) that are similar to quantum dots, and they're designed to change the membrane potential of neurons by taking external wireless energy and using it to open ion channels. They're not "nanobots". They have no moving parts or circuitry of any kind. The precision of the system is basically down to how accurately you can localize the externally-delivered wireless energy to specific brain regions. Any kind of wireless energy that can be absorbed by the nanotransducer will work; various proposals involve using ultrasound, electromagnetism, RF, infrared light, et cetera. Anything that can get through the cranium. For Battelle's BrainSTORMs, for instance, their plan was to power their MeNT nanotransducers using electromagnetic resonant coupling, delivered by a helmet with a very precise grid of electromagnets. It's basically a Wacom tablet that goes on someone's head.
https://govtribe.com/file/government-file/hr001118s0029-hr001118s0029-dot-pdf
https://news.rice.edu/news/2019/feds-fund-creation-headset-high-speed-brain-link
https://eceweb.rice.edu/news/brain-brain-communication-demo-receives-darpa-funding
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590238521000679
https://medium.com/the-shadow/nanoparticles-on-my-mind-783403fb17af
When I replied: “These are great leads, Spartacus! Thank you!”, he blessed me with even more insight into this profoundly important topic:
No problem at all.
DARPA's N3 program is after a nanotransducer-based two-way BCI, which means that they want nanotransducers that are capable of retransmitting their status to an external receiver. Realistically, this would require a helmet worn on the subject's head, in order to have any degree of fine resolution. The purpose of the wireless nanotransducer tech is to avoid performing a craniotomy and resecting the dura to expose the brain before implanting electrodes in it, like Neuralink or a Utah array. In other words, they want to develop a brain-computer interface that is surgery-free and injectable.
BCIs do have valid hypothetical uses, like treating blindness and paralysis, or controlling prosthetic limbs. However, with any device that is capable of neuromodulation, there are serious ethical risks that must be addressed, like violating basic cognitive autonomy by directly altering people's emotional states with an Affective BCI.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-019-00087-2
There are also a lot of basic privacy and safety issues with having a wireless, internet-enabled device with a direct link to your brain. Such devices could be used as lie detectors, they could allow hackers to steal one's health data and information on one's mental state and extort them, or they could be used by intelligence agencies to surreptitiously alter someone's thoughts.
With two-way BCIs, there are other, even more outlandish possibilities, here, like using human brains as a botnet and stealing neural processing power to run Deep Learning applications.
The most concerning aspect of all of this is the recent development of the neurowarfare paradigm, where nation-states are viewing the idea of altering the mental states of an enemy nation's citizens directly through "less-lethal" neuromodulation weapons as acceptable (and not a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention or the Biological Weapons Convention). James Giordano and Charles Morgan's speeches at West Point's Modern Warfare Institute are chilling to listen to:
There is a concerted push by military and national security figures to leverage increasingly advanced biotech to directly manipulate the mental state of an adversary without even firing a shot. This is a very dangerous precedent, because of the subtle nature and difficulty of attribution of such attacks. It widens the playing field to include plenty of people who aren't uniformed combatants. In fact, it appears that they are considering the civilian populations of rival powers as valid targets. If every nation-state is attacking every other state's population with neuroweapons, this leads to an obvious issue where the State is, itself, in a condition of perpetual warfare with humanity to preserve its own existence at our expense.
When all of these factors are taken together, it is difficult to trust anyone in power with something like wireless BCI tech, which promises a conduit directly into people's minds.
In light of these developments, it’s more important than ever that we remove the psychopaths from power before they use that power to totally destroy The Good, The Beautiful, and The True. We can’t afford to permit their pathocracy to continue.
Good people of the world, unite in saying no to psychopaths!
Spread the awareness. I recommend the Mindmatters channel for pathocracy-aware discussions. And Spartacus’s brilliant and courageous work. And John Carter. And Matthew Crawford. And 2ndSmartest. And Chris Langan. And Asha Logos.
We will prevail! We will Recapture Our Destiny!