Sophisticated and deadly “brain weapons” that can attack or alter human consciousness, perception, memory or behaviour are no longer the stuff of science fiction, two British academics argue.
Michael Crowley and Malcolm Dando, of Bradford University, are about to publish a book that they believe should be a wake-up call to the world.
They are this weekend travelling to The Hague for a key meeting of states, arguing that the human mind is a new frontier in warfare and there needs to be urgent global action to prevent the weaponisation of neuroscience.
“It does sound like science fiction,” said Crowley. “The danger is that it becomes science fact.”
The book, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, explores how advances in neuroscience, pharmacology and artificial intelligence are coming together to create a new threat.
Legalize the gay bomb
but, we know that propaganda exists, tired when they make up science fiction scenarios for things that already exist and are ignored.
Fuck, AI is one of the most powerful propaganda tools. way too many people rely on some AI to form their opinions, as long as they aren’t as obvious as Gork, their propaganda is incredibly powerful.
“The tools to manipulate the central nervous system – to sedate, confuse or even coerce – are becoming more precise, more accessible and more attractive to states.”
The book traces the fascinating, if appalling, history of state-sponsored research into central nervous system (CNS)-acting chemicals.
This sounds like propaganda made into steroid form, quite literally.
Then you’ve got American consulate employees in Cuba coming down with inexplicable brain problems.
You know what? Edgar P. Jacobs with his Blake and Mortimer series was prescient.
Social media isn’t that new
Propaganda is even older.
Looks like new drugs that turn people to zombies.
It’s all psychological warfare nowadays.
Veterans of the psych wars
Can’t the government just make us watch Tiktok instead?
Interesting, we’ve already seen with even basic non-lethal weapons how powerful they can be:
Was a sonic weapon used against protesters in Serbia?
I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but what I read and saw at the time was pretty convincing.
