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Jan 15, 2006

*Neural Implants: Past, Present & Future PART1

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*Neural Implants: Past, Present & Future PART1

Despite the fact that most people dont have a clue about this subject, this is a broad subject, full of facts. Here I will summarize past, present and near future technologies. I only listed verifiable items, heres a different view on the history of these that I couldnt verify.

In the late 1920s, a Swiss physiologist, named Walter Rudolph Hess, demonstrated that he could elicit behaviors such as rage, sleepiness and hunger in cats, by electrically stimulating different spots in the brains using wires.

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In the 1930s, Lord Edgar Adrian, a British neurobiologist, isolated sensory neurons from frogs and eels, and showed that as the intensity of a stimulus increases, so does a neurons firing rate, which can peak as high as 200 spikes per second. In the next few decades, experiments confirmed that the nervous systems of all animals employ this method of conveying information, called a rate code. Researchers also demonstrated that specific neurons are dedicated to extremely specific tasks, such as seeing vertical lines, hearing sounds of a specific pitch, or flexing a finger. Together, these findings suggested that controlling the brain might be a simple matter of delivering the right jolt of electricity to the right clusters of brain cells. In the mid-1930s, psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti witnessed butchers incapacitate pigs with electricity before slitting their throats. The pigs head was grasped with the with a large pair of electrically wired pincers which had metal disks spiked with small metal points on each pincer arm, the animal fell to the ground paralyzed from the shock, whereupon it could be easily killed. Cerletti lost no time in developing this for use on humans to control behavior. Electroshockalso known as electro-convulsive therapy, shock treatment and ECT.

1951: John Lilly, of the National Institute of Mental Health,

discovers that he can simulate a variety of emotions by placing electrodes inside a monkeys brain.
Bionic Ears are the result of pioneering research commenced by Professor Graeme Clark in the late 1960s at the University of Melbourne Department of Otolaryngology. The prototype multiple-electrode Bionic Ear was implanted in the first adult at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital by Graeme Clark and colleagues in 1978. The first device for clinical trial world-wide was implanted at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in 1982. The international trial

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at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in 1982. The international trial established that it was safe and effective and it was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1985, the first multiple-electrode Bionic Ear to be approved by any world regulatory body. In 1985, the team implanted the first child with a multiple-electrode Bionic Ear. It was approved as safe and effective for use in children born deaf or developing hearing early in life by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1990.

Jose Delgado pioneered remote control, using neural implants, in the 60s and 70s. - May 17, 1965: Delgrado stops a raging bull with by remote. -He released his book Physical Control of the Mind on January 1, 1977. "Physical Control of the Mind" Online Version. -Scientific American, October 2005, PDF Article. -My Physical Control of the Mind overview.

Late 80s Electrode brain implant that is allowing speech-impaired patients to communicate through a computer. May 1, 1989: Former BBC producer and veteran foreign

correspondent Gordon Thomas publishes Journey Into Madness, The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, connecting Jose Delgados views to those endorsed by Sidney Gottlieb, of CIA/ MK-ULTRA fame. He explains: "Dr. Gottlieb and behaviorists of ORD [Office of Research and Development, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency] shared Jose Delgado's views that the day must come when the technique would be perfected for

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the day must come when the technique would be perfected for making not only animals but humans respond to electrically transmitted signals."
June 16, 1995: Time magazine features an ad for an implantable

pet transponder, oddly enough, aside an article about a militia mans fears about the encroaching New World Order. By Aug. 2002, such devices are so commonplace that the Christian Science Monitor reports on how the military is "adopting a Big Brother approach" to "implanting microchips in cats and dogs that live on government land" in order to track down and penalize military families who abandon their pets.
2/17/1997 - Cockroaches on a secret mission

October 15, 1998 - Communicating with 'thought power' by implanting hollow glass cone electrodes inside the brain's motor cortex

Sept. 23, 1998: Cybernetics Prof. Kevin Warwick becomes the first known human to communicate with machines via a microchip implanted in his body. Predicting that such implants will eventually replace time cards, tracking devises and credit cards, Warwick tells ABC News, "I feel mentally different." Later, he tells Salon.com, "After a few days I started to feel quite a closeness to the computer, which was very strange. When you are linking your brain up like that, you change who you are. You do become a 'borg.' You are not just a human linked with technology; you are something different and your values and judgment will change." He also admits, "It does make me feel that Orwell was probably right about the Big Brother issue."

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Monday, June 21, 1999 - Rat brain controls robot arm.

10/15//99 Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have recorded signals from deep in the brain of a cat to capture movies of how it views the world around it.

The images they reconstructed from the recordings were fuzzy but recognizable versions of the scenes that played out before the cat's eyes. -Dont leave out Verichip and Digital Angel. Nov. 11, 2000 - Scientists removed the brain and spinal cord from a sea lamprey, and placed them in a refrigerated, oxygen-rich saline solution. Then, they rigged small wires to bring electrical signals from optical sensors, mounted on a robot base, to the disembodied brain's vestibular system. The experiments worked, and their little cyborgs were able to motor towards light they used to attract them.

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Watch the video here.

Dec. 7, 2000: CNN reports on Dr. Kevin Warwicks next step, implanting a chip that interacts with his central nervous system. "This summer, a professor plans to take a step closer to becoming a cyborg -- part human, part computer -- by implanting a silicon chip that communicates with his brain," CNN says. With his wife also getting "chipped," Warwick later discusses the possibility that couples might one day read each others minds and experience each others pleasure (making faked orgasms obsolete). Their experience is recorded in the book, I Cyborg.
Feburary 7, 2001 Orgasmatron

September, 2001 Computer Controlled Leach December 17, 2001 Remote Controlled Cockroaches January 30th, 2002 - Monkey Moves Computer Cursor by Thoughts Alone

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May 1, 2002: Roborats: Scientists State University of New York built remote control rats, by attaching electronic packs onto their back with electrodes running into their heads. It was s mashing success, and one could only imagine how many roborats exist today.

One electrode stimulates the feelgood center of the rats brain, while two other electrodes activate the cerebral regions which process signals from its left and right whiskers. They work for pleasure, says Sanjiv Talwar, the bioengineer at the State University of New York who led the research team. The rat feels nirvana.

May 10, 2002: A family has microchips inserted into their bodies on national TV. An Applied Digital Solutions press release boasts: "VeriChip has been the subject of widespread media attention for the past few months, everything from Time Magazine to the Today Show, the Early Show, CNN's American Morning with Paula Zahn, CBS Week end Evening News, and the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. We're delighted that Good Morning America and CBS Evening News will cover the first-ever "chipping" procedures on May 10th. Aug. 15, 2002: During the height of the Summer of the Abducted Child, the Philadelphia Inquirer runs a front page story on the new "high-tech approach to child security" -- i.e. the "chipping" of children. Pointing to Applied Digital Solutions "prototype for an implantable GPS unit that could pinpoint a child's location," the article asks: "Would a parent really place a device under the skin of his or her child to guard against a vague threat?" before offering ADS spokesman Matthew Cossolottos reply: "We have GPS units for our cars. If your car is stolen, we can locate it. Do we love our cars more than our children?"

2003: Non-Invasive Brain-actuated Control of a Mobile Robot

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January 6 2003 - Scientists seek 'super-soldiers' formula One of the agency's plans for keeping warriors awake is to "zap" their brains with electromagnetic energy. January 13, 2003 - The Pentagon Plan to Create Mutant "Super-Soldiers"

March 12, 2003: The BBC runs an article entitled "Scientists develop 'brain chip,' which states that "US scientists say a silicon chip could be used to replace the hippocampus, where the storage of memories is coordinated." The testing, beginning on rats and rapidly proceeding to monkeys, will ultimately be conducted on humans.

June 2003: "In a few months, researchers at the University of Southern California will test the world's first prosthetic brain part," Popular Science asserts, crediting biomedical engineer Theodore Berger with creating "a 2 mm-wide silicon chip that he hopes will one day substitute for damaged or diseased brain regions." Potential military uses for the brain chip, which is partially funded by DARPA, includes building "sophisticated electronics" and integrating them into human brains to possibly "one day lead to cyborg soldiers and robotic servants." June 2003: In an article published on DARPA's Web site, Dr. Alan Rudolph explains how the agency's "Brain Machine Interfaces Program" will "create new technologies for augmenting

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Interfaces Program" will "create new technologies for augmenting human performance" by "access[ing] codes in the brain" and "integrat[ing] them into peripheral device or system operations. [BuzzFlash] Though the article is no longer available (and the term "brain interface program" is nowhere to be found) the link now directs browsers to an article on "Human Assisted Neural Devices," which also discusses accessing "codes in the brain."
October 13, 2003 - Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants The brain implants could also allow scientists or soldiers to control, handsfree, small robots that could perform tasks in inhospitable environments or in war zones.

Novemeber 26, 2003 - No volunteers for orgasm implant April 14, 2004: The Associated Press blasts the headline "FDA Approves Brain Implant Devices." Citing benefits to those with physical impairments and brain disease, scientist Richard Andersen notes that "surgeons are already implanting devices into human brains -- sometimes deeply -- to treat deafness and Parkinson's disease" and says, "I think there is a consensus among many researchers that the time is right to begin trials in humans." Oct 15, 2004 - Paralysed man sends e-mail by thought

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December 04, 2003 - Eye implant may reverse blindness

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Tort Reform for dummies Brain chips keep falling on my head.....But that doesn't mean my soul w ill be dead....Crying's not for me, these brain chips kepp falling......
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