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White House Brain-mapping Project- The Secret Plot To Brainwash You Into Submission
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The media predictably seems to love President Obama’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative. The idea behind this $100 million proposal is to use the latest technology and develop new technology to fully map the human brain. Unfortunately, the media cheerleaders have ignored a potential danger here: this technology could be used to make a sick fantasy of pulp writers a destructive reality. Is brainwashing or mind control really about to happen?
Brain Mapping and Brainwashing
The brainwashing and mind-control techniques that have long been a stock plot of spy thrillers, movies, TV shows, and comic books are nothing but science fiction. Unfortunately, the BRAIN initiative could be used to develop the technology that could make such paranoid fantasies a reality.
We need to worry about this because, like any other technology, brain mapping could easily be abused by corrupted or evil individuals. The airplane brought the world closer together; it also gave us the ability to kill large numbers of innocent people through bombing. The rockets that carried men to the moon also power the missiles that can deliver nuclear weapons anywhere on Earth.
History teaches us that it is not a question of whether brain mapping will be abused, but rather when and how it will be abused. Like every other technology, brain mapping will be abused, and a logical use for it seems to be brainwashing.
How Brain Mapping Could Lead to Brainwashing
Those who don’t believe that the BRAIN initiative could lead to brainwashing should take a look at its goals as mentioned in a Psychology Today blog:
- Understand how brain activity leads to perception, decision making, and, ultimately, actions.
- Produce a sophisticated understanding of the brain that will show how individual genes affect behavior.
- Develop new imaging technologies that will enable us to understand how information is stored and processed in neural networks.
Yes, these advances could help us develop new technologies that might lead to better treatments for Alzheimer’s disease or mental illness. Yet it’s also easy to see how these could lead to brainwashing or mind control.
Take the part about perceiving reality. Con artists, advertisers, and politicians already try to manipulate people by providing false impressions of reality. What happens if such individuals could get their hands on a device or a drug that changes a person’s perception of reality? Imagine if a politician could convince innocent people that his voice was the voice of God.
2013-04-18 12:31:39
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