Once most parts of the brain are connected into the system many vulnerabilities will be revealed. Once human experience can be accessed and manipulated like a computer file is now, people will, for a time, be helpless.
If human ideas are already like viruses, -memes-, then the ability to manipulate the parts of the brain that respond to to these ideas will be taken advantage of. Adding to or expanding consciousness. The possibility of massive knowledge and awareness will create weaknesses that can be exploited by would be criminals. Manipulating short and long term memory retreival. The ability to make more things stay in the attention and unlimited access to liftime memories will open people up to problems. Controlling moods and mental states. It is the drug problem all over again but this time the only real controlled substance will be electrical patterns. Intensity of actions in forms of entertanment. Advertisers and companies might indulge in a little bit of corperate crime here. Reward centers of the brain--xxx If a liftimes' acheivement; career, family, and home, are recognised by certain parts of the brain which produce the satisfaction they bring are then manipulated by patterns of electricity, a person might be deluded into thinking that they have it all. Illusion broadcast directly into the brain. Putting ideas into people's heads has been with us all along. The only difference would be that it will become harder and harder to tell the real from the fabricated. Implanting artificial memories. Why not just put the memories into someone's head so that they think that they are doing the right thing? Possesion of one into another. Some people can gain control over others now but what happens when a full fledged possesion, of biblical proportions, can be attained with these connections to the brain? Psychological Methods of Influence and Manipulation. All of the old manipulative technics of the past -times 2-. There will be modifications of these technics that will result in an entirely new branch of social psychology and the science of persuasion and influence. The road leading to The Inner Police.
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These crimes times the computer connection to the brain.
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