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The brain has always been a battlefield. New weapons might be able to hack directly into your nervous system.
"Controlled Effects" is one of the Air Force’s ambitious long-term challenges. It starts with better and more accurate bombs, but moves on to discuss devices that "make selected adversaries think or act according to our needs... By studying and modeling the human brain and nervous system, the ability to mentally influence or confuse personnel is also possible."
Originally posted by Funkydung
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The brain has always been a battlefield. New weapons might be able to hack directly into your nervous system.
"Controlled Effects" is one of the Air Force’s ambitious long-term challenges. It starts with better and more accurate bombs, but moves on to discuss devices that "make selected adversaries think or act according to our needs... By studying and modeling the human brain and nervous system, the ability to mentally influence or confuse personnel is also possible."
Called Sensory consequence of electromagnetic pulsed emitted by laser induced plasmas, it described research on activating the nerve cells responsible for sensing unpleasant stimuli: heat, damage, pressure, cold. By selectively stimulating a particular nociceptor, a finely tuned PEP might sensations of say, being burned, frozen or dipped in acid — all without doing the slightest actual harm.
The skin is the easiest target for such stimulation. But, in principle, any sensory nerves could be triggered. The Controlled Effects document suggests it may be possible to create synthetic imagesto confuse an individual’ s visual sense or, in a similar manner, confuse his senses of sound, taste, touch, or smell.
In other words, it may be possible to use electromagnetic means to create overwhelming ‘sound’ or ‘light’, or indeed ‘intolerable smell’ which would exist only in the brain of the person perceiving them.
This is nice and all but I don't agree with the scientists ethics.
The general populace has been disarmed of arms. Why would they want to help the .gov develop new high tech weaponry, especially like this? I can see defensive sensory equipment, but any scientist who aids the .gov in new weaponry is someone I can't respect.
These will potentially be used for enslavement over a people who have no means to defend themselves. It's like giving China a mind control device so they can continue on their censorship and authoritarian power over their people. It might make you rich, but it's isnt moral.
I have no beef with these weapons if I could legally own and build them myself.
We are fueling our corrupt governemnt with better weapons and tools to strip our rights. Sad.
Soon as these are developed, it wil be used to take away the rest of the guns we own and we will be helpless to do anything.