They say this century will be “the century of the brain”. Think of it, they might be able to fashion med’s for different types of people and different types within those types. They could target attributes in each person’s brain that might be a little bit different from his fellow patients. They might find drugs that could treat for obesity, and cure overeating without causing depression because of the change in diet. They might be able to help people improve their concentration and study more effectively. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. They could greatly alleviate pain without causing addiction. They could treat antisocial personalities, both sociopaths and psychopaths. It will take a lot of digging. They’ll need to sort through mounds of data. But med’s are improving all the time. They could make rudimentary models of the brain and run them through supercomputer simulations. I’m not saying such technologies don’t have the potential for abuse, but they could set up guidelines. A lot of this technology is pretty far off, but they’ve already made strides in treating pathological conditions in the mind. Companies can sell their data after a while to some astute young scientists who can go through it with a fine-toothed comb.
Sounds reasonable unless Neurolink gets the draw first. Keep an eye on Musk.
Yes, by all means. It might get to the point where they have conferences of doctors and scholars discussing the moral implications of the manipulation of the brain.
I dont doubt that at all. With international cloning and Boston tech lab dogs and all, I think there is already an ethics problem that needs to be addressed before we go any further.
We’ve already made some strides in treating the brain that might need to be discussed in depth. There are many points at which we should stop and consider the potential for misuse. We don’t want some Mao-Tse-Tung type figure creating a race of super soldiers to take over other countries. But right now what we need are science fiction writers.
Agreed.
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We don’t want the U.S. to do that either, but we’d be less likely to because we are a democracy.
So far, so good anyway. The winds of change are blowing.
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks neurolink is a billionaires diabolical dream.
Like what if they could turn up or down your emotions at the press of a button. Or reduce soldiers empathy so they would have no problem carrying out a task. Like changing the parameters of your music player.
Yeah no dice for me ill take a few voices 
Absolutely. I wrote not too long ago that there are many things worse than voices, such as anxiety, depression, akathisia, etc. I have never had visions myself, that might be a whole nother topic .
Yes, but thinks like a personalized, improved diet medicine, anesthetics that cure pain without addiction, improved attention and learning, things like this are fairly harmless, but they do have the potential for abuse. What if you tweaked the wrong molecule in a diet med and turned someone into a rabid anorexic? And there are worse possibilities. What if some doctor Mengele got ahold of it? But we wouldn’t want to see the mind as independent from the body. There is a constant interaction between the two.
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