Step Forward or Plot for Mind Control? – Liberty Sentinel

Brain-computer interface technology (BCI), which allows the human brain to connect directly to computers or other devices, as well as non-invasive neural technologies, has made significant strides in recent years, and things are not expected to slow down any time soon. BCI technology has attracted investment from governments around the world as well as from countless corporations. While speaking to the importance of BCI technology, an article on the World Economic Forum website states, “The race to decipher the workings of the human brain, and build new economies around it, is on. Today’s great entrepreneurs – people such as Paul Allen, Jeffrey Hawkins and Robin Li – believe that brain science can transform our lives.”

These technological advances will naturally lead to numerous positive outcomes that will lead to a higher quality of life, especially for those who are suffering from neurological limitations. According to a November 10, 2015 article at sharpbrains.com “A good number of companies, including Medtronic, Neuropace and St. Jude Medical, are developing systems to actively monitor brain activity and respond in real-time with appropriate treatments. These systems can discern symptoms leading up to an undesirable brain event (such as a seizure), and provide pre-emptive treatments to mitigate or altogether thwart epileptic activity. Some monitoring systems are coupled with other assistive devices, such as robotic aids to enable patients suffering from neurological disorders (such as ALS) to regain lost motor control.”

Other positives mentioned in the article include gaming systems that target certain areas of the brain, intended to address cognitive or emotional issues. Virtual reality could also be used to treat issues like irrational fears or PTSD and to assist surgeons with complicated procedures.

When referring to Electrical and Magnetic Brain Stimulation, the article goes on to state, “These are technologies that can influence brain activity via magnetic fields or electrical impulses, and they are becoming increasingly common. Multiple hospitals and clinics already offer treatments based on brain stimulation, DARPA has awarded contracts to develop systems to augment memory with targeted electrical stimulation techniques, and consumers can buy wearable devices claiming to induce an array of brain states from calming to energizing.”

For decades, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and their global partners have been at the pinnacle of technological innovation, especially when it comes to BCI technology. According to an August 9, 2015 article on the WEF website, “Li, the founder of Baidu, recently urged the Chinese government to launch a “China Brain” programme, which would apply neuroscience to a range of fields, from medical diagnostics to commercial robotics… IBM is working on brain-inspired SyNAPSE chips that use less energy but have a higher computing power than other chips. As these programs and chips get better at predicting behaviours, they will extend human cognitive abilities and blur the lines between man and machine… As our understanding of the brain improves, so does our ability to control it and tap into its networks. Direct connections between the brain and machines – known as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) – are already allowing paralysed patients to perform simple tasks such as turn thoughts into email or move their hand to hold a loved one. Other technologies send information from the outside world directly to the brain, allowing people with damaged ears and eyes to experience sights and sounds around them… Noted venture capitalist Vinod Khosla predicts that technology will replace 80% of the time a doctor spends on decision-making. Today, portable devices and phone apps can diagnose, track and even treat ailments – though they can’t yet replace doctors.”

There is no question that on its surface these innovations seem to paint a very positive and optimistic picture, assuming that this technology is implemented properly and without any nefarious intentions. One cannot help but wonder if, behind all the positive uses, this technology is being designed to influence or program our thoughts, behaviors, and attitudes to conform to an overarching agenda.

Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, has openly promoted his vision for a future where BCI technology is not simply limited to those who have neurological or other limiting impairments but is taken on by everyone to “upgrade” the human mind. In his dystopian vision of the future, everything you think, dream, or imagine will be recorded. He even hopes for a future where governments have the ability to edit your thoughts if they find them to be undesirable. As unreal as it may sound, the possibility of this dystopian future becoming a reality is not all that far-fetched.

As documented in an article at dailymail.com, “Researchers with Korea’s Institute for Basic Science (IBS) developed the hardware, which manipulates the brain from a distance using magnetic fields, and tested the tech by inducing ‘maternal’ instincts in their female test subjects: mice. In another test, they exposed a test group of lab mice to magnetic fields designed to reduce appetite, leading to a 10-percent loss in body-weight, or about 4.3 grams. ‘This is the world’s first technology to freely control specific brain regions using magnetic fields,’ according to the professor of chemistry and nanomedicine who helped spearhead the new effort… The novelty added by South Korea’s IBS team was the genetic fabrication of specialized nanomaterials, whose role within neurons in the brain could be tuned from afar via carefully selected magnetic fields. The technique, formally called magneto-mechanical genetics (MMG), guided Dr Cheon and his colleagues as they developed their brain-modulating technology. In the new study, published this July in Nature Nanotechnology, the team called their invention Nano-MIND, for ‘Nano-Magnetogenetic Interface for NeuroDynamics.’… The technology proved capable of encouraging the mice both to overeat and to undereat… The technology, Dr Cheon and his team wrote, will find its most immediate use in helping health researchers understand which parts of the brain and the rest of the neurological system are responsible for which moods and other behaviors.”

Mind-control technology is not purely limited to things like appetite or moods and behaviors. Scientists at MIT have taken things even further, as documented in MIT News, “In a step toward understanding how these faulty memories arise, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of mice. They also found that many of the neurological traces of these memories are identical in nature to those of authentic memories. ‘Whether it’s a false or genuine memory, the brain’s neural mechanism underlying the recall of the memory is the same,’ says Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience and senior author of a paper describing the findings in the July 25 edition of Science… ‘The technology we developed for this study allows us to fine-dissect and even potentially tinker with the memory process by directly controlling the brain cells.’”

The use of Brain Computer Interface technology not only allows the human brain to communicate directly with technology, but it also allows technology to communicate directly to the brain, which is referred to as “writing on the brain.”  This leaves so many open-ended questions as to how this will affect the brain overall, especially regarding thought process and memory recall.

The “Inside Your Brain” issue of How It Works magazine speaks of how the human brain “fills in the blanks” by stating, “The brain uses its immense power to allow us to see the unseen. The brain filters out a lot of visual information in order to conserve energy and enable us to focus on important objects and movements, but it also fills in the gaps to help us make sense of the world. A dog standing behind a picket fence is still recognizable as a whole dog rather than small segments of a dog, even though parts are hidden, for example. This phenomenon, known as visual pattern completion, relies on the brain’s ability to make connections and find patterns. When an apparently incomplete image is processed by the brain’s visual region, it searches for a pattern to work out what’s missing and delves into its stores of long-term memories. Using memories that match, it pieces together a satisfactorily likely image. While visual pattern recognition is useful for understanding our surroundings, it can also make us ‘see’ things that aren’t there. Features on an inanimate object can appear to make a face, while shapes in the shadows sometimes look just like human outlines until you turn and look at them directly. Cleverly drawn illusions rely on the brain’s love of patterns, creating the idea of shapes where there aren’t shapes and movement when the image is still.”

Under the heading “Brain Technology,” the magazine goes on to state, “By artificially stimulating parts of the brain, wearable tech developers, such as Modius, have created sleek EEG headsets to trick the brain into creating instructions at the touch of a button.”

Finally, in the section titled “Into the Unknown,” it states, “In recent years, the idea of using wireless, microscopic ‘motes,’ known as neural dust, has been an area of great interest to researchers. Scientists first made these devices in 2016 at the University of California, Berkeley, and in experiments in rats they found that the motes could record and transmit electrical data when they were implanted in a leg’s nerve and muscle fibers. Scientists want to reduce the size of motes from roughly one millimeter wide to 50 micrometers wide—half the thickness of a human hair—allowing it to stay in the body for longer than current technology allows. Although this experiment was not completed on the brain, researchers hope that in the future it could be a form of electroceuticals to treat brain and body disorders, lead to advanced prosthetics and robotics, and communicate with nodes around the body to report on tumors. […] a five-year project known as IARPA MICrONS is attempting to create the largest ever ‘roadmap’ of neural connections in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue—the largest ever section of brain to be studied in this way to date.”

Mind control has been an end goal of technocracy, or rule by (big tech) “experts,” since it was first conceived. In his book Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, says the following: “At the same time, the ability to access a person’s innermost thoughts and influence his or her thinking is a huge concern in a world driven by algorithms and ubiquitous data collection… Influencing the brain in more precise ways could change our sense of self, redefining what it means to have experiences and fundamentally alter what constitutes reality.”

The use of BCI technology and even non-invasive technology like EEG headsets puts an enormous amount of power in the hands of big tech. The amalgamation of our thought process with artificial intelligence could be used to manipulate our brains as they “fill in the gaps” for pattern completion. It is possible that in the future, be it through BCI, EEG headsets, neural dust, magnetic fields, or some combination of them, the conclusions we come to will be manipulated to give us a “nudge” in the same way that big tech manipulates search suggestions as words are typed into a search bar.

Transhumanists look forward to a future where BCI technology will be used to store our thoughts and memories in the cloud. The cloud would then communicate directly with the brain in a feedback loop as those thoughts and memories are recalled. Given that technocrats have always desired the ability to control human thought, this leads to the possibility or even likelihood that in the same way that big tech censored claims of election fraud or Covid “misinformation” on social media, algorithms could be used to censor or even change thoughts and memories in the cloud that go against the technocratic narrative. As those thoughts and memories are recalled from the cloud, we would not even be aware that what we are remembering was altered or even censored completely!

The WEF and their partner organizations are leading the way in the development of BCI technology. It is a scary thought that it could come to the point where everyone is forced to either accept this intrusive technology or be left behind in society. BCI technology fits in perfectly with the overarching agenda of “smart cities,” which the WEF and the United Nations are working together to implement. In his book The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, Patrick Wood states, “What really makes a smart city ‘smart’ is the fusing of these data silos into a central database that can be analyzed by sophisticated AI algorithms with the goal of facilitating desired social outcomes.”

Smart cities are becoming more and more of a reality as they are being implemented by planning commissions across the United States. BCI and other mind-reading technologies are simply the next step in the technocratic utopian vision, where everything from the economy down to individual thoughts is controlled by our technocratic overlords, and social outcomes are manipulated. If we allow this agenda to be integrated into our daily lives, algorithms and data will make all the decisions, free will will become a thing of the past, and humanity will be reduced to nothing more than slaves in a technocratic New World Order.

About the author: Brandon is a freelance journalist based in the metro-Milwaukee area. His work has been featured in Liberty Sentinel Media, Wisconsin Conservative Digest, and Reality News Media. He has worked full-time in politics for six years. This includes leading successful campaigns for legislatures at the state and congressional levels and successful deployments to get bills passed in Kentucky and Texas. In his spare time, he enjoys weightlifting, running, hiking, and listening to classic rock.