[Carlhole]

Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wired', 'D')rugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers' brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. borders.

These are just a few of the military uses imagined for cognitive science -- and if it's not yet certain whether the technologies will work, the military is certainly taking them very seriously.

"It's way too early to know which -- if any -- of these technologies is going to be practical," said Jonathan Moreno, a Center for American Progress bioethicist and author of Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense. "But it's important for us to get ahead of the curve. Soldiers are always on the cutting edge of new technologies."

Moreno is part of a National Research Council committee convened by the Department of Defense to evaluate the military potential of brain science. Their report, "Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies," was released today. It charts a range of cognitive technologies that are potentially powerful -- and, perhaps, powerfully troubling.

Here are the report's main areas of focus:

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[Dreamtwister]

2 words - wetware hacking.

[CRACKERMAN]

It is so nice to see that our government hasn't learned from watching movies. This crap always goes really wrong.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CRACKERMAN', 'I')t is so nice to see that our government hasn't learned from watching movies. This crap always goes really wrong.