Brain-Scanning Binoculars Tap Into Soldiers’ Unconscious Minds To Locate Threats?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/07/13 03:13:47

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Soldiers scanning the battlefield for threats may soon get a new tool: a brain-scanning set of binoculars that can pick up on a soldier’s unconscious recognition of a potential threat and bring it to his conscious attention. It’s just one of many ways DARPA and other military research groups are looking to have soldiers mind-meld with their machines and materiel, and as the BBC reports, it demonstrates how remarkably close we are to deploying mind-control on the battlefield.

The specific binocular device that DARPA is developing is known as Sentinel (for System for Notification of Threats Inspired by Neurally Enabled Learning, because that’s not an unwieldy acronym or anything), and it basically uses the power of the human brain to scan and filter imagery in realtime, picking up on both what the soldier recognizes consciously and what his unconscious might perceive as well.

Cal 2012/07/13 06:49:46

Hate to be the bearer of bad news...but this is medically impossible. We don't understand the brain, the optic nerve, or really how our eyes function in a way that allows our brains to do what they do.

If we could do this the blind would see. This is just sci/fi wants. The military has a few hundred wants that will never see the light of day due to impossibilities.

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Link to Cal 2012/07/13 08:48:35 (edited)

Very true! But I wouldn't say impossible... yes, for now it is... but never know what will become possible in the future, though you and me will not live long enough to see it (most likely)... just remember throughout the decades all the thinvs we have today that they said would be impossible or would never be practical, etc... like computers and modern day cars and cell phones... and look how fast these technologies and ideas became realities and how quickly they've been improved on and made smaller and less expensive... but! Maybe they'll give ip due to the expense of research and the impossibility of it.

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~ The R... to Link 2012/07/13 09:26:17

Revolving door for blowing taxpayer money...

Solyndra-Connected Scientist Now Runs the Military’s DARPA
http://teapartyeconomist.com/...

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Link to Link 2012/07/14 13:36:13

Wow.. bad typing on my cell phone... LOL...

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Ambassador II 2012/07/13 04:11:48

Are you suggesting that we have soldiers out there who are "unconsciously" scanning for enemies". Perhaps they are sleep deprived? Maybe get them to bed earlier, reduce the "playtime" in the bunks after the lights are turned out, cut the sale of alcohol in the
PX?

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Steve J~PWCM~JLA 2012/07/13 03:31:55

+1

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stevmackey 2012/07/13 03:15:34

+1
1984 is here. Thank you for the warning Mr. Orwell.

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