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Well, if any of this nutty what-if were true, there would be people quite tense about the thread. But it’s all science-fiction! I said so at the very beginning!

Or maybe they have had the tech working for many years now, and are neurally mapping as many as 30 million Americans while they sleep. Not as thoroughly as troops of course, but still mapping the public, and even preparing entertainment experiences to lessen the shock that by all rights should shake the foundations of the country.

Read this and realize, leaks like this thread force their hand.

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/07/pentagon-wants-bring-mind-controlled-tech-troops/149776/

And there is this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-emotional-surveillance-technology-2018-4

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-03-16

Whether you believe it or not:

The touch sensation transmission and reception has been working for years.

Wireless sounds and imagery directly to the visual and audio cortex has been working for years.

Transmission and reception of spoken language in a dream state has been working for years.

Manipulation of endorphins using remote
technology has been researched on unwary sleepers for years.

Creating simulated dreams via simple visual and audio cues where the brain does the heavy lifting of visualization has been working for years.

That people can mistake received voices as their own inner voice has been known and utilized for years.

The goal is to neurally map every American before another entity does the same. If the public knew about the neural mapping, the control and dissemination process would be compromised.

The effort is so mature that the world’s largest entertainment publishers are already being contracted to produce experiences that will both soften the shock of the technology rollout, and attract early adopters to contrast the inevitable backlash.

I’m currently finishing up the writing on a series of one hour long teleplays about the efforts of a group of neuro researchers perfecting methods of using “surgical strokes” in humans to do everything from treating Alzheimer’s disease to sexual orientation modification and personality adjustment.

Unfortunately, it’s not science fiction. I’m only writing it that way, because no one would believe it otherwise. Who would voluntarily give away a clever idea or five for their sci-fi series on a free blog like this?

Answer: someone who cares more about getting the word out than getting credit.

Why would DARPA write about the N3 efforts of creating non-surgical and even ingested neural-linking technologies before it’s even possible?

Answer: Because it has been possible for years. Preventing public backlash and revolution, when the inevitable revelation day arrives, is critical.

Now, relax and go back to sleep. -eab

You know what’s useful if you own a video game production company? All the new grads want to make video games! They will work for next to nothing and do crunch hours for you at every milestone! If they start to get wise to the abuse cycle, just hire 4 more newbies to take their place.

Now however, with the electronic brain link network, you can have the pixel gypsy slaves working all day AND all night!

And here’s the beautiful part, except for a key few, they won’t even remember it during the day. When they’re dreaming, to them, it IS daytime.

What about the gamers? Oh, that’s all of us. We will be completely ready and fully compatible by the time it rolls out. “Sync’ed with the system”.

Just imagine, computer games like VR without any headset at all. And touch sensations. And your friends are there! And here’s the best part of all...just like a dream, you don’t know it’s a game! You think it’s reality - most of the time. Chatting is just chatting of course.

(Scratches his chin)

Hey. When it turns out that I was right, will I get a prize? Because for every fringe lunatic attorney that’s found me looking for a way to build a class-action lawsuit, I get five times as many threats.

Well...of course I’m just the schizoid man, but you’re gonna love these head games. How can you not? But don’t tell anyone that it isn’t really about games at all.

The ice is definitely melting now.

Do you have any friends, relatives, or long-time associates who have recently demonstrated excellent, even remarkable, memory recall, when they never seemed to have had it before?

That’s interesting.

A little paranoia never hurt anyone.
I only said it was “interesting”.
Besides, according to what I’m intimating, you’re already connected.

Have you ever dreamed that a deceased love-one was still alive, but visited you in a place you had never lived when they were still around? Have you dreamed that you haven't graduated, yet? Have you had recurring tangles with an old enemy?

Have you noticed that those types of dreams that recur, again and again, have common memories? That unique reality is like a history that is only true while you are asleep and dreaming, in that particular frame of mind. If you have never kept a dream journal for a long period of time, you may not have.

I call those Compartmentalized Memories. According to new neural research such as that being done at MIT, many states-of-mind we enter, waking or sleeping, can have a particular signature that is identifiable in an EEG, for example.

Why don't you remember those compartments until you dream in them again? If you had lived a different life, who would you be? What if, electro-biochemically, you could make certain someone HAS compartmentalized memories, but won't recall them upon awakening? We rarely retain our dreams anyway, right?

I have news. ;)

The key technology being abused is memory manipulation - beginning with which memories people can recall, which they had access to while they were dreaming, and whether their mind files new dreams away as ‘waking experiences’. Which experiences drop into procedural memory and which do not.

Holy Mind F—-ing brought to you by AI and Expert Systems!
“You simply wouldn’t believe how many conditional tests we’ve programmed to compare your melon to the fool’s next door!”

-eab

To answer a few paranoid accusations, no, I am not trying to sue any of the corporations or people I am aware are involved in testing the brain link network.

In fact, I have walked away from more opportunities to get rich from litigation than anyone I have ever met or heard of.

I did, however tease that idea to see what response I would get. And it worked!

Your big worry should not be litigation right now. The danger is so much worse than that. You should join the Angry Lab Rat Society, because you are one of them.

deepcgi says

Why don't you remember those compartments until you dream in them again? If you had lived a different life, who would you be? What if, electro-biochemically, you could make certain someone HAS compartmentalized memories, but won't recall them upon awakening? We rarely retain our dreams anyway, right?

I don't know if it's age or what. Some days around 2pm I start getting drowsy at work. And find myself nodding off.
A series of events happen all within a single minute that seems much longer than that.
First I'll notice the time just flipped 2:01 for example. Then about 5 seconds later my eyes get heavy. Then I'll have a vivid dream that would take me at least 5 to 10 minutes to explain. Then I'll a hear a loud door in the office open or close. And will wake up. When I look at the clock, right at that instance the time on my computer flips to 2:02.

I have a theory that Dreams are Chunks of information, that gets inserted into your brain. You don't dream in a chronological sequence of events. In fact the dream doesn't sequence at all, until you wake up and remember that you dreamed. Only then do you start to put the dream in chronological order of events contained in the dream.

TenPound:

That’s fascinating. I’ve often wondered about the limits of thought with regard to things like plank time. We seem to process thoughts quite slowly compared to chemical reactions because physical neurons and other brain matter are, supposedly, the only medium through which the information passes. We just assume it is the sheer number of signals per second that those neurons are firing that are the key to the complexity of thought and the perception of time. Reality at the quantum level is quite foreign to us still.

Who is to say, for example, where imagination comes from in dreams or otherwise? Maybe original ideas, just like the rest of the visible universe, don’t exist until we go looking for them. Exploration IS Creation.

Take video games... with most modern titles, the experience is carefully crafted to look and feel amazing, but there is no exploration to be done beyond the ways to play through it. You are just sliding down a tube. There may be a few splits and twists, but it was all prepared for you.

Minecraft on the other hand (or one of the other newer procedural titles) is a medium unto itself. Who knows what the biome will be?

What if the biome generation “rules” (in the unseen code), were altered by the exploration of new possibilities within the preexisting procedures? Tests for stability play out by high-powered simulation testing on whether what some one is uncovering, seeing, imagining is viable or not.

The explorer then discovers something no one has ever seen. Not just a rearranging of the blocks, but an appending of new rules upon the physics of the game (or dream).

It’s not even rhetorical, really. It’s easy to create a scenario that demonstrates this.
The brand new detail doesn’t have to effect history at all! We just aren’t used to developing scenarios without limits. We would always ask ourselves why we should bother.

An update on the Electronic Brain Link Network:

Apparently there are now more than 19 million people neurally-mapped and unwittingly connected together. Most activity happens during sleep, and the vast majority will have no memory of the dreams.

Apparently, there is also now a powerful Chinese presence involved at the technological level with respect to AI research, expert systems, networking technologies, and social engineering via companies like Tencent Corporation and it’s investments in US video gaming companies like Epic, Ubisoft, Activision, and others.

Or maybe I’m just making it all up. :-)

Happy Dreams.

People will be easily seduced by this technology. The powers-that-think-they-be are counting on it. I admit that it is mind blowing. I’ve been there. It will not surprise you why the world’s richest have been talking about The Singularity, artificial intelligence and digital immortality for so many years.

You go to sleep at night and enter a shared dream world that you never thought possible. The allure will out shine the invasive dangers to individual liberty that are hidden behind it all.

I know too well how insane it sounds, but I would feel awful and traitorous if I didn’t at least warn you. If I didn’t plant the seed in your head.

A few of you think you know already. You’re probably rich or entangled in the related organizations. But I guarantee that you do NOT know the half of it.

https://www.sciencealert.com/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication

Watch for many more discoveries like this one. The secret cannot be kept much longer. A few choice neurological technology stocks could become hot...until they are threats rather than solutions.

Personally I would fund both neurological and AI research groups at MIT. Memory research and wireless brainwave monitoring technologies. -e

There is a handy feature called “the governor”. It is a stroke-switch. It makes troublesome memories go away.
Don’t be impressed with its surgical precision, though, because it only needs to trash certain parts of your brain’s scrapbook. The more brilliant and crafty “surgical stroke” you may get to enjoy in my black-mirror style mini series! I’d doubt it though. I’ll have a stroke first, I expect.

The embolism switch is the one i’m looking forward to, personally. 5G should give them enough bandwidth for that, yeah? Ah...peace on earth at last!

The happy-happy-joy-joy button is a given.

If you aren’t aware of any of this yet, it’s because you are not well-connected enough, or rich enough, or both.

But those with privileged access are victims just the same.

I recommend a dream journal. Wake up and sketch a note or two to help you remember. See if you do not encounter any truly complex minds that are not just the product of random neural machinations. You might even find that you misunderstood a conversation with someone in a dream. Consider how that would be even remotely possible.

It is a healthy psychological practice in any event, yes?

Brainwaves to Speech.

A few of us know this is nothing new...

https://www.ajc.com/news/science/new-mind-reading-machine-can-turn-your-brain-waves-into-speech/OKrQDemkaHqdjDKNlw6BEM/

Just add microwave hearing with or without implants, your mobile phone as a gps transmitter receiver, and e voi la...you are part of a brain link network.

Please stop and think for a moment. If not already true, my premise is inevitable.

We already know dreams are affected by magnetic fields I am sure somewhere somebody has came up with a way to subtly effect people with some sort of tech. I am a pretty lucid dreamer when I look at complex things like machinery or something like a map, or do basic math it is very stressful and when I wake up I feel like I didn't sleep. Sometimes if I try to take over whole dream I just wake, doesn't matter how long I have been sleeping its almost like the mind doesn't want me to be thinking just watching.

The MIT neurology and AI links I included earlier in this thread should seal the deal for many people.

MIT was tracking the dreams of the rats nearly 20 years ago. They knew what they were dreaming and where they were in their dream maze. Then they were able to change the maze by influencing them to follow another pattern.

Then (see above) MIT has AI tech tracking brainwaves wirelessly in a device the size of a modem - with no head attachments at all.

While the neurological mapping of people surreptitiously could go on almost anywhere within the continental US, the higher bandwidth infrastructure to fully test the electronic brain-link network wouldn’t be everywhere, but I would put a high likelihood on places like Seattle Washington and Austin Texas.

If you worked for someone like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Adobe, Facebook, Boeing, or any number of professional security firms, you would very likely be neurally-mapped. You might have faint recollections while you slept, like dreams where the behavior of others seemed beyond your own imagination.

Other people in the dreams might say and do things that you would misinterpret at the time, or even after waking. Later, upon reflection, it would seem odd that you could have misunderstood something another person in a ‘dream’ had said deliberately, even though the words and context MUST have originated from somewhere within your own mind.

That is until you realized that minds could be artificially networked.

Some ideas seem absurd until they’re obvious.

This morning I noticed something peculiar in a dream...people speaking with long exaggerated “S” sounds.

I had heard it before in dreams, like only yesterday, but had forgotten until just now.

About 50 minutes ago, at ten minutes before 7:00 AM, I heard a voice say, “Ssssssssstand up.”
“Sssssssstand up.”
“Sssssssssssssstand up. I sssssaid sssssssstand up.”

Then I heard, “We are too late.” To which another voice asked, “What?” And the first voice returned “With him, we are too late!”

Peculiar isn’t it? A dream like that. I’d heard it before as I slept, and even in the dream, I thought it odd. Ordinarily I wouldn’t pester this blog with such a meaningless detail, but this time I thought I would get it on the record.

That is, in addition to my 657 entry, multi-year dream journal. -eab-

Here's a news report from Sky News Australia that comments on the silent but raging war of international software development in universities and tech firms that makes the exact points I would make, but without the minutia of technical detail regarding Neurology and AI which you frankly wouldn't believe. (hell..I wouldn't believe...)

It should be obvious by now though, that I don't post here to persuade anyone of anything.

www.youtube.com/embed/MHTjfFCa_-g

From my point-of-view, an entirely private “free-speech” blog is a contradiction, and not as enlightening as one which could be read by anyone, but posted-upon only by registered members.

I have been frequently intrigued with the minds which have attended the topics on Patrick.net, and I thank you, but one particular hypothesis of mine has unfortunately proven accurate.

Cheers to all of you. -eab