yes, i think the government is playing around with our brains, yes it is too much like playing god, yes it has gone too far. i think the gov't should stay as far away from it's citizens as is possible. they track practically everything we do with those little store cards we all use, then they know our med habits by prescription tracking...i really do feel that they need to leave us alone!

I'm not sure how I feel I mean there are criminals who could be helped out by having their brain re written, like psycho paths and rapists and serial killers.

Also if your brain chemistry could be fixed we too would benefit.

So there are good things that could come from it.

But on the other hand I don't want to be a slave where the government plants ideas in my head. I don't particularly like the idea of my thoughts being controlled or even watched by some one else.

Technology is wonderful but when will it go too far? Has it already gone too far.

do you think the US government ever gave up looking for mind control since the MKUltra program back in the 60s or whenever it was?

of course they would love it.

i guess if they rewired us to be happy being a slave then we wouldn't know any different....

I don't lend too much credence to material provided by Sickmind Fraud, LOL!!!!!
I'm not bothered by it. I'm an open book. Maybe my brain would be better if they diddled around with it a little!!!!
I like where Science is going and I don't worry too much about them abusing what they find. It's amazing what they are finding out and I think that a lot of it might lead to great things.

Simple mind control already exists with commercials, videos and tv programs/movies. Can you say "subliminal messages"?

well I'd certainly like to re write the brain of crooked politicians.

But what if we could re write every one's brains. Would we all be perfect human beings?

And what if one person was controlling it all, and that person were corrupt? Who would be able to stand up against them?

I agree science is awesome and we have made many wonderful and amazing accomplishments but what happens when we go against nature? Is it for the greater good or is it for our ultimate doom. There could be unforeseen consequences.

Yes Carla I should have link his source but if you click on the link

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/nueroscience/4226614

you can read the article for your self. And I think that popularmechanics is a reasonably acceptable reference. But you can decide that on your own.

I agree with all of the above.

They have been doing it for years in different ways, but yes I agree it's going to far. A way of population control. The rich stay rich, the governments keep control, and the rest stay medicated.

sometimes I really wonder. The article is from Popular Mechanics - perhaps not the place you would look for research on neurology.

One of the statements picked out was "If we could access every neuron, and spent long enough analyzing the data, we could figure out in great detail what a person is seeing or thinking.

Possibly. So how many neurons are there. Answer is about 100,000,000,000. So all you need to do is look at 100,000,000,000 things, work out their state (I'm not sure whether they actually are binary).

Tell the person to think about "red" - then examine the brain when it's thinking red.

Imagine you can look at one neuron and analyse it's state in one hundredth of a second. It would take 63 years to work out what all the neurons are doing when someone is thinking about red. Now for the other colours..then putting that together as a more complex thought...

Bit of a challenge, really.

accurious I am a digital electronics expert. Do you know how many transistors are in today's CPUs? An estimate is about 500 million. Each transistor is similar to a neuron in a human brain. Some one knows how to do the calculations to know the exact inner workings of a CPU.

Maybe it seems impossible to you but it is only a matter of time before some one does decode the brain! You see something as impossible I see something that is a matter of time.

Even if it takes 63 years to develop something like that, that is a relatively small amount of time, and We are the ones who have to pay attention to it. Because once that technology is already developed it is too late, you can bet that the government will be using it.

It is the complacent attitude of I don't have to worry about it now because it hasn't happened yet. Well with an attitude like that we will be powerless to stop it when it does happen.

I know that each of us is powerless to do anything any how but we should pay attention to it. Not enough people were paying attention that is how a lot of negative things went down. Also read the whole article, we have experts saying that something like this which is not 100% reliable could end up being used in a court system. Think of the implications of that.

Also my research comes from many sources not just that alone accurious do you really want me to list them all? I'm not going to do every one's home work for them. I'm just bringing this to the table.

I didn't look at the link because that blog is anti-psychiatry in general..

But to be honest, since they have been involved in the past with MKULTRA/MKSEARCH I really wouldn't put certain things past them..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

Am I really concerned with this? Not really - what can I do? It used to bother me A LOT, but then I was like hmm whats the point, seriously it's not like I can change much - just be aware & critical of things.. Is it like playing God - hrmm.. I don't think so - unethical, yes - very. Science too far - hmm.. Science loves to go far, the question is of ethics, but people will always push it.

hmmm ..I wonder....

This is the kinda thing I can't think much about.

The brain isn't really like a CPU - it's far more complex and plastic in nature.The figure I quoted for neurons was 100 Billion, with a trillion synapses.

I said it would take 63 years to make the first calculation - not it would take 63 years to get this technology.

On the flip side if you could work everything out it would be a step in the direction of being able to basically transfer mind into machine, eternal life in virtual reality. (That's the idea put forward by maverick businessman Ray Kurzweil) That throws up many many issues and possibilities and obviously the implications of that dwarf anything about mind control.

It's worth noting that mind control is a bit pointless - governments and businesses can more or less get complience from their citizens in other much cheaper ways so why bother?

Sorry this is worrying you but I suspect it is a fair way off and if it happens there will be a lot of other things to think about.

The goverment says all cults use mind control techniques. Having been in a major cult all it uses is mind boggling convincing techniques.

Lack of knowledge is my delima. If I knew more I could do more.

Historically they first use new recruits in the armed services first but then I wouldn't put it past them to expand their test subjects under the lie of it is good for the greater good.

If they could do this successfully they would but I know they can't.