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This could be used to stimulate neurons so as to induce an image or sound in the patient's mind. As a proof of concept, the group plans to use the system to transmit images from' the visual cortex of one person to that of another. A group from the nonprofit research institute Battelle is taking on a more ambitious challenge. The group wants to let humans control multiple drones using their thoughts alone, while feedback about things like acceleration and position go directly to the brain.
The group's plan relies on specially designed nanoparticles with magnetic cores and piezoelectric outer shells , which means the shells can convert mechanical energy to electrical and vice versa. Episode 4 of Decoding Genius , a podcast series by General Eelectric that asks what is a genius and how you become one, is available now for download from decodinggenius. Doctor Jordan Nguyen is a name not many Australians may have heard before, but his creations are impacting people's lives in ways we can't imagine.
Dr Jordan Nguyen, biochemical engineer and futurist, who is developing technology giving people in wheelchairs more freedom of movement. Credit: Nic Walker. This young Australian biomedical engineering genius is setting his sights high: "My big goal is to improve as many lives as I can while I'm here, and hopefully beyond," Dr Nguyen says.
He aims to achieve this ambitious goal by bringing physical freedom to the disabled, and explains how he plans to do this in the latest episode of the podcast series, Decoding Genius. Meanwhile, the American public was still wrapped up in fantasies of hypnotic brainwashing, in part due to the research of pop psychologists like Joost Meerloo and William Sargant. Unlike Lifton and the other researchers hired by the military, these two men portrayed themselves as public intellectuals and drew parallels between brainwashing and tactics used by both American marketers and Communist propagandists.
The basic assumption of behaviorism was that the human mind is a blank slate at birth, and is shaped through social conditioning throughout life. Where Russia had Pavlov, the U. Skinner , who suggested psychology could help predict and control behavior.
With this fear of a mind-control weapon still haunting the American psyche, CIA director Allen Dulles authorized a series of psychological experiments using hallucinogens like LSD and biological manipulation like sleep deprivation to see if brainwashing were possible.
The research could then, theoretically, be used in both defensive and offensive programs against the Soviet Union. When the Watergate scandal broke, fear of discovery led the CIA to destroy most of the evidence of the program.
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