WIRED: Darpa Wants Remote Controls to Master Troop Minds

[kpete]

Darpa Wants Remote Controls to Master Troop Minds

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The Pentagon’s blue-sky research arm wants to trick out troops’ brains, from the areas that regulate alertness and cognition to pain treatment and psychiatric well-being. And the scientists want to do it all from the outside in — with a gadget installed inside the troops’ helmets. “Remote Control of Brain Activity Using Ultrasound,” the Defense Department’s Armed with Science blog promises.

It’s the latest out-there project in the military’s growing arsenal of brain-based research. In recent months alone, the Pentagon’s funded projects to optimize troop’s minds, prevent injuries and even preemptively assess cognitive ability and vulnerability to traumatic stress. Now, Darpa’s funding one lab that’s trying to do it all — from boosting troop smarts to preventing traumatic brain injuries.

Arizona State University neuroscientist William Tyler has been working with funding from the Army Research Laboratory for years. That neurotechnology work has now caught the eye of Darpa, which awarded his lab a Young Faculty Award to improve upon non-invasive approaches to brain stimulation.

“When people ask what this kind of device could do, I ask them what their brain does for them,” Tyler tells Danger Room. “The brain serves all the functions of your body, and if you knew the neuroanatomy, then you can start to regulate each one of those functions.”


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[wtmusic]

1. I just had a Conscience Supressor Module installed

and I am ready to kick some Haji ass. :headbang:

[Xipe Totec]

2. Suddenly, I have an urge to stare at goats nt

[leftstreet]

4. ROFL

:spray:

[izquierdista]

3. Time to dust off my "remote viewing" proposal

Nothing gets past that DARPA bunch.

[MrScorpio]

5. And I thought that UNIVERSAL SOLDIER was just a crappy movie franchise

I wonder if DARPA will bring in Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lungren is as consultants.

[rocktivity]

6. I think they should extend this to the officers' minds, too

After all, they're the ones who tell the troops what to do. And let's throw in any defense contractors as well.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[Canuckistanian]

7. I heard there was an ancient Asian technique

That gave people the ability to cloud men's minds.

Oh, wait. That was The Shadow, a radio series from the 1940's

[EOTE]

8. From my cursory reading, only good things can come from this. NT