Brain Implants

José Delgado stopping bull with electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB). inset: implanted monkey

Jose Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind, et al.

Of all the technologies available for Mind Control on an individual, brain implants may be the most invasive. While there is little physical evidence of their diabolical use on the general population, studies have shown the technology to be very effective at controlling behavior.

In 1965 The New York Times reported that José Delgado stopped a charging bull with radio controlled implants. Delgado was also “able to ‘play’ monkeys and cats like ‘little electronic toys’ that yawn, hide, fight, play, mate and go to sleep on command.” ¹


(c) José Delgado

Delgado’s 1969 Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society is a one-of-a-kind text detailing the power of brain implants. “To this day, Delgado’s is the only popular book on the subject of implants and electrical stimulation of the brain,” writes Jim Keith in Mind Control, World Control.²

Vance Packard in his 1977 book The People Shapers writes of Robert G. Heath, an early researcher into direct brain stimulation, who “equipped dangerously aggressive mental patients with self-stimulators. A film shows a patient working himself out of a violent mood by pushing his stimulator button.” ³

Other brain implant studies have shown that animals including humans given the ability to self-stimulate their brain’s pleasure centers will starve to death rather than take time to eat.⁴

Source: University of Tokyo

“Cybernetically enhanced bugs have become a reality,” notes William Eazel in an article for the wireheading.com website.⁵ Announced by the University of Tokyo in January 1997, Time Magazine reports:

Using hardy American roaches, scientists remove their wings, insert electrodes in their antennae and affix a tiny backpack of electric circuits and batteries to their carapace. The electrodes prod them to turn left and right, go backward and forward. The plan is to equip them with minicameras or other sensory devices.⁶

“The Pentagon’s defence scientists want to create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions,” writes BBC News in their 2006 article “Pentagon plans cyber-insect army.” ⁷ The Guardian reports in an interview that “asked to speculate on potential military uses for robotic animals, Dr Talwar [of the State University of New York] agreed they could, in theory, be put to some unpleasant uses, such as assassination.⁸ “It will mean that every non-human life form in the server room will have to be exterminated,” said one security expert in the wireheading.com article.⁹


Source: University of California, Berkeley

Neural implants have even allowed us to see through an animal’s eyes by processing signals in the brain.¹⁰ As BBC News reported in 1999:

By recording the electrical activity of nerve cells in the thalamus, a region of the brain that receives signals from the eyes, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley were able to view these shapes.… They recorded the output from 177 brain cells that responded to light and dark in the cat’s field of view. In total, the 177 cells were sensitive to a field of view of 6.4 by 6.4 degrees.… Given time, it will be possible to record what one person sees and “play it back” to someone else either as it is happening or at a later date.¹¹

A microscopic view of the “brain in a dish,” or rat neurons growing on a multi-electrode array in a petri dish. (Tom DeMarse)

Neurons have even been cultured on a computer chip that in a matter of minutes learned how to control a virtual F-16 fighter jet. “Enzymes were used to extract neurons from the motor cortex of mature rat embryos and cells were then seeded onto a grid of [60] gold electrodes patterned on a glass Petri dish,” reports the NewScientist.com website. University of Florida in Gainesville biomedical engineer Thomas “DeMarse’s array of 25,000 interconnected neurons were able to convert signals that indicated whether the simulated plane is experiencing stable conditions or hurricanes into a measurement of whether the plane is flying straight or tilted and then correct the flight path by transmitting signals to the airplane’s controls.” ¹² “When the system is first engaged, the neurones don’t know how to control the aeroplane; they don’t have any experience,” notes the Australian Broadcasting Company:

“Over time, these stimulations modify the network’s response such that the neurones slowly [over the course of 15 minutes] learn to control the aircraft,” [DeMarse] said. “The end result is a neural network that can fly the plane to produce relatively stable straight and level flight.” ¹³

“(The brain is) getting its network to the point where it’s a live computation device,” said DeMarse in the University of Florida press release.¹⁴ ABC News reports on additional neural computer studies noting:

It is clear that a marriage between neurology, or the study of the human brain, and high speed computers is leading into territory that sounds more like science fiction than fact. Some experts have warned that incredibly smart machines might someday leave the rest of us in the dust, usurping our self-appointed role as the most important creatures on the planet, if not the universe.¹⁵

“We’re closer to becoming real cyborgs than most people realize,” writes the io9.com website. “With our brains connected to computers at a fundamental level.” ¹⁶ NewScientist.com reports:

The world’s first brain prosthesis – an artificial hippocampus – is about to be tested in California. Unlike devices like cochlear implants, which merely stimulate brain activity, this silicon chip implant will perform the same processes as the damaged part of the brain it is replacing.…The job of the hippocampus appears to be to “encode” experiences so they can be stored as long-term memories elsewhere in the brain.¹⁷

IBM, “along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information,” reports the VenturBeat.com website. “IBM’s so-called cognitive computing chips could one day simulate and emulate the brain’s ability to sense, perceive, interact and recognize – all tasks that humans can currently do much better than computers can.” ¹⁸

As professor Kevin Warwick points out: “When cyborgs exhibiting an intelligence that far surpasses that of humans are brought about, it will surely be the cyborgs themselves that make any decisions about how they treat humans.” ^{19, i}

Notes

ⁱ Decision making, like memory, is a multifaceted process that involves many neural circuits, depending on the decision being made.
Benedict Carey, “Brain Implant Improves Thinking in Monkeys, First Such Demonstration in Primates,” The New York Times, 14 September 2012, at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/health/research/brain-implant-improves-thinking-in-monkeys.html (retrieved: 31 December 2012).

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