DARPA Commissions Research into Brain Implant

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The Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, has commissioned a $70 million project that will allow it to monitor the brain in real-time.

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[cklaubur]

Am I the only one thinking of Metal Gear Solid 4 after reading this?

Casey

 

[Onus]

I was thinking "Terminal Man" myself.

 

[Tuishimi]

I was having flash-forwards to Terminator...

 

[Axonn]

Or let's mind control soldiers into faithful little drones. 'cause now-a-days sometimes they get independent. And that's baaaaaaaaad.

 

[FloKid]

I hope you pay over priced for you crimes.

 

[clonazepam]

Someday men finally understand women and vice versa.

 

[dgingeri]

Onus, I thought I was the only one left alive who'd read The Terminal Man.

 

[Stevemeister]

The fundamental problem is people were not made to kill each other - doing so will cause problems in all but the most hardened psychopaths. Words from Chris Cornell's James Bond theme "You Know My Name" . . . . . . "If you take a life, do you know what you'll give, Odds are, you won't like what it is"

 

[blackjackedy]

The fundamental problem is people were not made to kill each other - doing so will cause problems in all but the most hardened psychopaths. Words from Chris Cornell's James Bond theme "You Know My Name" . . . . . . "If you take a life, do you know what you'll give, Odds are, you won't like what it is"

I wouldn't say we're not meant to kill each other. Normally we don't, but if it comes to a point when people might kill each other, the person who killed lives to reproduce and the one who didn't will not have that chance.

I realise that's a huge simplification and one example but I don't think it's so clean cut that we're not meant to kill each other.

 

[digiex]

DAPRA wants to convert US soldiers into fearless/remorseless/merciless killing machine.

 

[alyoshka]

"Mental illness is one of the biggest problems plaguing the U.S. military."
You're telling us now.... after all the wars, you think we didn't know that???

 

[AJSB]

As opposite to what was said here, Humans (and Chimpanzees) are the only species made for kill each other (if you don't believe about Chimpanzees, you better watch some documentaries about their extremely aggressive society and their "hunting and war expeditions" ...they even do it in complete silence and in a kind of militar formation like regular Human soldiers).

As for remorse from human soldiers, the TRUTH is that in the heat of combat, Humans ENJOY to kill other Humans...the guilty feelings come AFTER combat precisely because in our modern society we are not supposed to ENJOY killing other Humans.

 

[Duckhunt]

Well , what we need is something small enough to monitor all the neurons. That is not possible yet but it will happen. We need 1 Million cores,then we can try to do it. If we get Tera core chips, We will do it. Its parallel computing , I know DARPA knows this. There you have it. We need to get parallel computing into the main stream.

 

[Draven35]

If you think humans and chimps are 'the only species made for kill each other' you need to watch what happens when two wolf packs encounter one another.

 

[AJSB]

I know a lot about wolfs and admire them...but wolfs are completely different.

Wolfs attack other wolfs usually only when wolfs not belonging to the wolfpack enter in their territory or when a wolfpack is weak and other wolfpack attemps to catch their territory.

This is very different from Human and Chimp behavior...

As an example Chimps make expeditions to the territory of other chimps with the sole purpose to kill members of that other group and then they pull back to their own territory.

The purpose is not conquer territory, is not defend territory from invaders, is simply kill other chimps.

Also, the way they behave in those expeditions it's very similar to Human military operations , were all of them behave and move in a calm and silent (stealth if you wish) manner, very different from wolfs when they confront other wolfs where the confrontation is more "chaotic" and clearly more "hot headed".

Wolfs rarely kill wolfs of same wolfpack....it's really extremely rare as you know....usually simply showing the teeth or 1-3 bites solve issue w/o major physical consequences.

Chimps, OTOH, have no problems to kill other Chimps of same group if there is a difference of "opinion" about a subject/issue.

There is also a clear division inside Chimps groups with "political alliances"/whatever_you want_to_call that degenerate sooner or later in severe confrontations resulting usually in deaths.

Because of these reasons and a bunch of others too long to explain here , Chimps are at same level than us and we both are clearly different from other species that might be very ferocious by themselves but that don't confront each other inside same groups like us and Chimps.

I'm not talking about ferocity by itself but about will to kill same group members for reasons that sometimes are futile or the "military expedition" behave outside defending/conquering territory reasoning.

Not even Lions, Bears, White Sharks, Hyenas, Crocodiles, etc. behave this way.