OMG ! Obama Running Mind Control Project !!! OMG !!!

[cbelt3]

Heh. made you look. No, actually, the President announced a proejct to fund brain function mapping.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/0...H820130402

"Called the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, the program aims to help researchers see how brain cells and neural circuits interact through technology that produces "dynamic pictures" of the brain.

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Which is VERY cool and potentially very useful. However.... To me it's kind of like mapping the hard drive in a computer. It's subject to change. Especially in cases of damage (like mine). My memory is definitely remapping itself. My sense of smell also rewired itself ,which was VERY weird... once the smeller started working, everything was 'different'.... dog poop smelled like chocolate for a while, my wife's perfume smelled like dog poop, etc...

But then I'm not a neuroscientist. Research is always a good thing.

[OWC Jamie]

You'd think they'd be the last people to fund research into why people believe the lies they do.

[max]

It will help to make the lies more believable....

[SteveG]

My God! Obama's done it! Stock up on those large-capacity ammo magazines!

[Ted King]

This is exactly the kind of thing government should do. I like the analogy to the mapping human DNA. I feel pretty confident that this kind of brain research will yield those kinds of returns on public investment.

I wish a could be totally complacent about the thought that some people will look at it as "the government learning how to control our brains", but after living through the Mad Hatter's Tea Party for the last few years, I'm sort of half-expecting some such nonsense.

[cbelt3]

Ted- yup. Which is why I deliberately stole the thunder :biggrin: