That makes obeying illegal orders even easier.
Something I’d want to talk to my Marine son about...
/johnny
Oh goody another one of the conspiracy theorists chimes in....and in Glen Beck’s Fusion.
She’s written on Area 51 and other stuff and such
This is impossible with existing technology.
My dad worked with a DARPA crazy trying to build a thought controlled helmet for fighters with external sensors
Even if they got it to work (never got even close), it was so heavy it would snap the pilot’s neck on a 3G turn.
You want SciFi, read a book.
You want reality, talk to an Engineer.
I hate this kind of deceptive title.
To start with, as a purely technical note, this would *not* involve chip implantation into the brain. Likely it would be an “under the skin but over the skull” chip.
Now to the main event. Why do this? Because there is tremendous variation between individuals in how quickly they develop PTSD/Battle Fatigue/Shell Shock.
In some individuals, if there are loud, unpredictable noises that scare them, they develop PTSD. That easy.
On average, a combat soldiers can develop PTSD after a couple of weeks of combat.
And finally, there are a small number who can handle a lot of combat stress, which to them is just stress, and goes away when they are out of the stressful situation.
Well, the Pentagon hates it when soldiers are not uniform in their behavior. So the idea is likely to do one of three things, or both.
1) If the soldier’s chronic stress level skyrockets, it is detected by the chip, so they can be taken out of action before they develop PTSD. and/or,
2) It might give electrical stimulation to the pleasure center of the brain to help relieve stress. Basically encouraging the production of some dopamine, the pleasure chemical.
3) It might end up going only to those who have developed PTSD, to give them some recuperative leave while on leave. This used to be done by letting them get drunk several times, but that doesn’t really help.
However, based on previous experience of US military “nutball” science ideas, of which there have been a LOT, it will fail miserably.
(My favorite is during WWII, when they tried to train soldiers to digest cellulose. As some wit noted, while it didn’t work, it turned them into a “regular” Army unit.)
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How would the fabled "chip" interface with the billions of neurons or various functional control centers of the brain? Our most advanced microelectronic technology doesn't hold a flickering candle to the equivalent blowtorch power of the brain.
Dr. Carson....paging Dr. Ben Carson.....
Active Duty ping.
--Tim McVeigh
The comment was laughed off because it was presented as if the chip had been implanted in his buttocks (literal interpretation).
And they’re just as safe from hackers as Hillary’s email server.
