Emerging cognitive neuroscience and related technologies written by the National Research Council.
Chapter 5: Potential intelligence and military applications
Paraphrasing from the executive summary: This area of neuroscience and cognitive enhancement is advancing too quickly for this group to fully track and anticipate disruptive leaps in capability.
Chapter 3: Emerging areas of neuroscience and neurotechnology
FURTHER READING
Wired talks about Gandhi pills that could enhance the kindness of people. The flip side is that pacifying a population would have another option.
The Wired source is from mindhacks which looks at drugs for optimising morality.
September 09, 2008
Neuroscience and Neurotech for cognitive enhancement and behavior modification
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Labels: cognitive enhancement, future, future weapons, futurist, singularity, transhuman, transhumanist
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