Ramon escribió:como las neurociencias, al igual que la religión, han despertado el interés de ciertos ambiciosos de poder, para usarlo con fines de control de la volutad humana
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http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12177
Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies
Committee on Military and Intelligence Methodology for Emergent Neruophysiological and Cognitive/Neural Research in the Next Two Decades, National Research Council
O también:
Human Performance
E. Williams et al.
The tasking for this study was to evaluate the potential for adversaries to exploit advances in Human Performance Modification, and thus create a threat to national security. In making this assessment, we were asked to evaluate long-term scenarios. We have thus considered the present state of the art in pharmaceutical intervention in cognition and in brain-computer interfaces, and considered how possible future developments might proceed and be used by adversaries.
Office of Defense Research and Engineering (ODDR&E)
Director, Plans & Programs
3040 Defense Pentagon, Rm 3D1089 11. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S REPORT
Washington, DC 20301-3030
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION 7
1.1 US Cultural Beliefs and HPM in the Military . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 New Potential due to Advances in Neuroscience . . . . . . . . 11
2 MILITARY UTILITY 13
2.1 Force-on-Force Dynamics Is Different from Olympic Competition 15
2.1.1 Lanchester’s Law for Force-on-Force Engagements . . . 15
2.1.2 Olympic Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.1.3 But Aren’t the Special Forces Our Military Olympians? 19
2.2 Sleep Deprivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2.1 The ability of humans to withstand sleep deprivation
has large individual to individual variations . . . . . . 22
2.2.2 Animals show wide variety in sleeping times . . . . . . 22
2.2.3 Why do we need sleep: nobody knows. . . . . . . . . . 23
2.2.4 The military consequences of sleep deprivation . . . . . 23
2.3 Statistics and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.4 Erogogenic and Cognitive Supplements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.4.1 Adulteration Threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3 BRAIN PLASTICITY 39
3.1 Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Memory and Learning . . . . 40
3.2 Training Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3.3 Pharmaceutical Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.3.1 Ampakines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.3.2 Effects of ampakines on cognition . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
3.3.3 Continuing development of neuromodulators . . . . . . 58
3.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4 BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE 63
4.1 Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.2 Invasive Brain-computer Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5 SUMMARY 75
