Dual Use Discipline for Understanding & Managing Complexity and Altering Warfare
by John Stanton
John Stanton is a Virginia based writer specializing in political and national security affairs.
Excerpts:
Complexity (the number of ways-hows-and-whys a system can act) may become an anachronism as novel research demystifies consciousness reducing human complexity to a deterministic system. Biomachines that bypass time consuming conscious activity ultimately may be fielded by the DOD.
In the United States, the ongoing obsession with national security and the enormous funding necessary to soothe a national psyche of fear and war is a key driver for enhancing security thereby eliminating the uncertainty of daily living. ECN may generate predictive and diagnostic biotechnologies to reduce tension. Such a development could eliminate much uncertainty and concomitant drama in human affairs by providing leaders with assets to manage the complexities in brain-behavior relationships. To get there though, reliable data on human beings, as they function as interconnected consumers, warfighters, enemies, refugees, diplomats, criminals, and citizens of their respective nations will need to be collected and assessed. The entire effort depends on the application of general Evolution and Evolutionary Psychology.
Neuroweapons may be an outcome of ECN R&D programs. It is likely that DOD may classify as Top Secret programs that seek to turn the speed of thought into a weapon, or programs that blur the line between human and machine. With classification, no one may ever know of the existence of such programs. Some in the scientific community have suggested that, beyond the development of neuro-biomachinery and genetic manipulation, non-traceable neuroweapons with viral genetic payloads may be used to disrupt the brain and central nervous system. As a result, the creation of neurosecurity advisory and/or ethics boards may be required to keep R&D and testing efforts in bounds.
Biomachines that bypass time consuming conscious activity ultimately may be fielded by the DOD.
Creepy, indeed eh?
Sure, this may actually be our evolutionary outcome. But I'll be damned if the Deparment of Defence is spearheading it!
Along the same lines:
Harnessing humans for subconscious computing
Technology Review has an article on using humans as part of a digital face recognition system.
Uniquely, you don't have to take part in any deliberate recognition, the system uses electrical readings to automatically measure the response of the brain - even if you're not aware of it.
Finally, Strategic Personality Simulation: personality simulation systems ?
For Personality Profiling and Simulation?
Welcome to Huntingdonian culture and total war. All war, all the time. It's a pkd world now, where you are the battleground.
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