Media Resources. Brainwash & Mind Control. Brainwashing & mind control techniques The term "brainwashing" came into common language through the work of American journalist Edward Hunter who was an expert of Oriental issues; the very word being the direct translation of Chinese "hsi-nao".
By "hsi-nao" the Chinese meant certain techniques in dealing with adversaries and/or training of officials. To the Western usage the term "brainwashing" spread in the 1950s through several publications depicting the treatment of American soldiers at Chinese prison camp during the Korean War 1950-1953. Below is a list of the usual brainwashing/mind control techniques used in schools, hospitals, army, religious cults, totalitarian states; with political prisoners and dissidents, mentally insane, some versions of psychoterapy, etc., etc.
"Indoctrination" is a more slight and more subliminal form of brainwashing (e.g. commercials). 1) HYPNOSIS - Inducing a high state of suggestibility, often thinly disguised as relaxation or meditation. a. Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong - Yarden Katz. An extended conversation with the legendary linguist Graham Gordon Ramsay If one were to rank a list of civilization's greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of "decoding" ourselves -- understanding the inner workings of our minds and our brains, and how the architecture of these elements is encoded in our genome -- would surely be at the top.
Yet the diverse fields that took on this challenge, from philosophy and psychology to computer science and neuroscience, have been fraught with disagreement about the right approach. In 1956, the computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) to describe the study of intelligence by implementing its essential features on a computer. Instantiating an intelligent system using man-made hardware, rather than our own "biological hardware" of cells and tissues, would show ultimate understanding, and have obvious practical applications in the creation of intelligent devices or even robots.
Dreams Decoded By Reading Brain Waves. October 28, 2012 redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Can’t remember what you dreamt about last night?
Never fear, because a team of Japanese researchers has reportedly discovered a way to determine what thoughts are going through a person’s mind about while they sleep. Yukiyasu Kamitani, a member of the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, and colleagues recruited three male volunteers and monitored them while they slept, using electroencephalography to record their brain waves and studying the results in search of “changes in activity which could be related to the content of their dreams,” explained Telegraph Science Correspondent Nick Collins. When the researchers detected changes in the brain waves of the subjects — a sign that they had started dreaming — they woke up the subject and asked him what he had been dreaming about. The researchers compiled approximately 200 dream-related reports from their volunteers, he added.
Optogenetics Resource Center. Five Big Developments in Neuroscience to Watch. Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security. 07 February 2012 Professor Rod Flower FRS talks about the report.
This report considers some of the potential military and law enforcement applications arising from key advances in neuroscience. Neuroscientists have a responsibility to be aware from an early stage of their training that knowledge and technologies used for beneficial purposes can also be misused for harmful purposes. The development of an absolutely safe incapacitating chemical weapon is not technically feasible because of inherent variables such as the size, health and age of the target population, secondary injury and the requirement for medical aftercare. Countries adhering to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) should address the definition and status of incapacitating chemical weapons under the CWC at the next Review Conference in 2013. These applications tend to serve one of two main goals. The challenge of non-invasive cognitive physiology of the human brain: how to negotiate the irrelevant background noise without spoiling the recorded data through electronic averaging.
BBC Future column: why your brain loves to tune out. My column for BBC Future from last week.
The original is here. Thanks to Martin Thirkettle for telling me about the demo that leads the column. Our brains are programmed to cancel out all manner of constants in our everyday lives. If you don’t believe it, try a simple, but startling experiment. The constant whir of a fan. If you don’t believe me, try this simple, but startling demonstration. With your eye fixed in position, keep your head still and soon you will experience the strangest thing. Now you see it… For all of our senses, when a certain input is constant we gradually get used to it.
You can see this twitching when you look at a single point of light against a dark background (such as a single star in the sky, or a glowing cigarette end in a totally dark room). Once you understand adaptation, you discover that it is all around us.