Mind Wars

by Moreno, Jonathan D.

• ISBN13: 9781934137437
• ISBN10: 193413743X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-01
• Publisher: Bellevue Literary Pr

Summary

"There has been virtually no debate on the ethical questions raised by the brave new brain technologies. . . . The time to speak up is before the genie is out of the bottle." The Wall Street Journal "One of the most important thinkers describes the literally mind-boggling possibilities that modern brain science could present for national security."Lawrence J. Korb, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense The first book of its kind, Mind Warscovers the ethical dilemmas and bizarre history of cutting edge technology and neuroscience developed for military applications. As the author discusses the innovative Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the role of the intelligence community and countless university science departments in preparing the military and intelligence services for the twenty-first century, he also charts the future of national security. Fully updated and revised, this edition features new material on deep brain stimulation, neuro hormones, and enhanced interrogation. With in-depth discussions of "psyops" mind control experiments, drugs that erase both fear and the need to sleep, microchip brain implants and advanced prosthetics, supersoldiers and robot armies, Mind Warsmay read like science fiction or the latest conspiracy thriller, but its subjects are very real and changing the course of modern warfare. Jonathan D. Morenohas been a senior staff member for three presidential advisory commissions and has served on a number of Pentagon advisory committees. He is an ethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the editor-in-chief of the Center for American Progress' online magazine Science Progress.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction	p. 15
Darpa on Your Mind	p. 23
Of Machines and Men	p. 48
Mind Games	p. 17
How to Think about the Brain	p. 98
Brain Reading	p. 116
Building Better Soldiers	p. 135
Enter the Nonlethals	p. 163
Toward an Ethics of Neurosecurity	p. 185
Sources	p. 206
Index	p. 225
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