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    This Society for Brain Integrity is a non profit organisation that has been established to create an awareness of cybernetic technology and electronic abuse, such as illegal data collection and manipulation of humans via brain – machine – interface. How do we protect people that by utilitarian grounds, without informed consent, are used for brain studies with brain-computer-interface and illegal data collecting? T...
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Archive for April, 2011

Chips Coming to a Brain Near You

Apr 23rd

Posted by Moderator in Surveillance - Integrity and Autonomy

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The hippocampus of the intact brain (left) receives neural impulses from the environment. The microchip (right), which may be able to help humans build long-term memories, processes the signals from the brain as electrical impulses and sends them back into the hippocampus.

In this era of high-tech memory management, next in More >

Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’

Apr 3rd

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Read This Thought: The U.S. Army is developing a technology known as synthetic telepathy that would allow someone to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. The concept is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG.

Vocal cords were overrated anyway. More >

University of Oxford:Practical Ethics: Non-lethal, yet dangerous: neuroactive agents

Apr 2nd

Posted by Moderator in Ethics & Bioethics

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University of Oxford

An article and editorial in Nature warns about the militarization of agents that alter mental states. While traditional chemical weapons are intended to hurt or kill people, these agents are intended to disable. For example, they might induce confusion, sleepiness or calm. The Chemical Weapons Convention contain a More >