Where are we (officially) as a culture with regard to transmitting, implanting or manipulating brain activity, on any level, by wireless remote control? I’d be referring primarily to broadcast transmissions. If it has been done & documented, or at least hypothesized & documented (apart from fiction), what method of broadcast would be used? Could one, for instance, transmit a beta wave signal with enough strength to interfere with the brain’s naturally occuring one? And if so, to what result?
And then, if any of this has been done, would a thin sheet of metalic foil surronding the cranium be sufficient to block or significantly dampen the signal?
Clearly they’ve got to you. Be worried.
Serious answer - no, nothing has been done, and a tinfoil hat wouldn’t help anyway. A lead sheeting hat would probably be the minimum necessary.
The thickness of the metal is largely ireelevant, as long as it is shiny - even metallised mylar works just as effectively against the mind control lasers.
I dunno. But I think EM radiation can only affect biological organisms in two ways: a) It can heat it up, or b) It can cause disruptions in cell behavior, which could lead to cancer.
Depends on the frequency and amplitude. Aluminum foil should reflect most high frequency stuff.
Don’t forget the foil underpants. We humans do some of our thinking with our naughty bits. I’m not just talking about men, either. A wet vertical smile has no conscience, either.
To seriously answer the OP’s post, I’ve done a lot of conspiracy research in my time and found lots of interesting topics into this (not strictly mind-control lasers, but check into project MK-ULTRA), but nothing even in the goofiest writing that indicated that there was something of this magnitude avilable, not to say that it hasn’t been attempted.
This was also the original source of the fnord, as I recall.
This document was adopted as inspiration by R. A. Wilson and R. Shea for their novels, collectively called Illuminatus! and Schroedinger’s Cat in two trilogies, the latter borrowing heavily from the first. Both also heavily irreverent. I can’t verify now, but I believe the tinfoil hats were first mentioned therein.
And the OMCL, and its antithesis, the tinfoil hat, were made full-fledged internet icons thanks also to Steve Jackson games and their games Illuminati and INWO, both very much in the spirit of Wilson and Shea.
And if you haven’t come across these in your reasearch, then you haven’t done enough.
To attempt to interject some serious discussion back into this thread (Probaby a lost cause, but hey ), I can think of several major problems with remote behavior control. For one thing, you’d need to very precisely trigger specific neurons to release specific chemicals to have any sort of definite control over an individual. True, general stimulation of small brain regions has been shown to have effects on behavior and personality, but event his would be difficult to acheive remotely. The problem is that brain regions and individual neurons are designed to be controlled remotely. There are no structures or receptors which are specifically meant to receive and respond to any sort of electromagnetic signals. We know of no way to “tune” a transmitter to selectively trigger specific brain areas while leaving others unaffected. Certainly, we can stimulate selected areas using electrodes attached to the head, but that’s a far cry from broadcasting a signal to control and indivual from any significant distance.
), I can think of several major problems with remote behavior control. For one thing, you’d need to very precisely trigger specific neurons to release specific chemicals to have any sort of definite control over an individual. True, general stimulation of small brain regions has been shown to have effects on behavior and personality, but event his would be difficult to acheive remotely. The problem is that brain regions and individual neurons are designed to be controlled remotely. There are no structures or receptors which are specifically meant to receive and respond to any sort of electromagnetic signals. We know of no way to “tune” a transmitter to selectively trigger specific brain areas while leaving others unaffected. Certainly, we can stimulate selected areas using electrodes attached to the head, but that’s a far cry from broadcasting a signal to control and indivual from any significant distance.