BRAINWAVES CONVERTED TO SPEECH
Today's blog is about an important article that was shared by J.H., to whom a big thank you for noticing this story and passing it along. The subject concerns one of my favorite topics: mind manipulation technologies, and their skeptics. Indeed, today's blog is less about the technology (though it is about that too), and more about the skeptics who don't believe such things exist.
For my part, on the other hand, I'm of the opinion that the only way to explain the current suicide of western civilization, the insanity and utter lack of common morality and decency among its ruling political and plutocratic classes, their pervasive disbelief in God or any other transcendent principle, their willingness to "lock down" an entire planet for what, in effect, is a flu, their concerted and orchestrated campaign to get people to take an untested and highly experimental genetic quackcine, their characterization of what is a flu outbreak to epidemics of the plague, is in part because many of them are under the influence of these technologies, as are most people. Something has switched off their moral compass, and that something may be in part technological in addition to the usual ideological explanations.
In other words, the subject of mind manipulation is a very serious one, with very serious social, cultural, and political consequences. We're looking at them now.
Consider the implications of the following article:
A Paralyzed Man's Brain Waves Converted to Speech in a World-First Breakthrough
Note what we have: a technology to translate brainwaves into actual speech, with the usual bow to the beneficial health benefits of the technology, in this instance, helping victims of strokes to be able to speak and communicate again:
In a world first, US researchers have developed a neuroprosthetic device that successfully translated the brain waves of a paralyzed man into complete sentences, according to a scientific paper published Thursday.
"This is an important technological milestone for a person who cannot communicate naturally," said David Moses, a postdoctoral engineer at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and one of the lead authors of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"It demonstrates the potential for this approach to give a voice to people with severe paralysis and speech loss."
The breakthrough involved a 36-year-old man who had a stroke when he was 20 that left him with anarthria - the inability to speak intelligibly, though his cognitive function had remained intact.
Every year, thousands of people lose the ability to talk due to strokes, accidents or disease.
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The team decided to launch a new study called Brain-Computer Interface Restoration of Arm and Voice, and the first participant asked to be referred to as BRAVO1.
Since suffering a devastating brainstem stroke, BRAVO1 has had extremely limited head, neck, and limb movements, and communicates by using a pointer attached to a baseball cap to poke letters on a screen.
The researchers worked with BRAVO1 to develop a 50-word vocabulary with words essential to his daily life like "water," "family," and "good," then surgically implanted a high-density electrode over his speech motor cortex.
Over the next several months, the team recorded his neural activity as he attempted to say the 50 words, and used artificial intelligence to distinguish subtle patterns in the data and tie them to words.
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The system decoded up to 18 words per minute with a median accuracy of 75 percent. An "auto-correct" function, similar to that used in phones, contributed to its success.
"To our knowledge, this is the first successful demonstration of direct decoding of full words from the brain activity of someone who is paralyzed and cannot speak," said BRAVO1's neurosurgeon Edward Chang, a co-author.
Actually, it isn't the first time that brain wave patterns have been decoded into words. In my book Microcosm and Medium I pointed out that this type of research has been going on since at least the 1970s, if not before, and that by that time, some 2000 words had been "decoded" and their brainwave templates recognized and compiled into what I called "electro-encephalographic dictionaries." The first question then that must be asked is why is this recent achievement presented as something new, unless the people conducting the BRAVO test were simply unaware of the prior research and art. I don't rule that possibility out, either.
But suppose, for a moment, that prior research was not known to the BRAVO testers. Then at the minimum, we have confirmation of the basic idea behind "electro-encephalographic dictionaries," for to decode speech from brainwave patterns associated with certain words is, in effect, the compilation of precisely such a dictionary. It's the first, and most essential, step to the invasion of the last bastion of human privacy itself: that interior conversation that all of us carry about in our minds all the time. It's an essential component and first step to being able to listen into those conversations and, perhaps, by using those brainwave templates, to modulate those patterns on microwaves and talk back to the individual concerned, to literally project a conversation into the brain remotely through standard broadcast technology concepts.
With the right technology, and enough power, one could perhaps influence entire regions by this method... and perhaps that's the real point here. Perhaps we're looking not at news, but a limited hangout, an admission the technology and technique exists, but only in a rudimentary form that is not well-advanced.
Either way, however, the article is an admission that in whatever form - highly advanced or rudimentary - the idea of an "electro-encephalographic dictionary" exists...
See you on the flip side...
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With respect Joseph I disagree slightly with your position the cast of characters are under a technological influence. For me, it’s simply having been seduced by evil (choose your form) and receiving money/fame/position to do the evil bidding. For the most part, the majority of these evil wrong doers don’t have the wherewithall to execute much of anything and are merely following orders. I agree with all other aspects and statements made in your post. My concept of mind control however was expanded with Schwartzenstein’s provocative submission to the VidChat.
The human was genetically engineered so long ago it’s only myth;
as are the sons and daughters of Gods[aliens/cousins]?
The electromagnetic spectrum is now playing into that long ago human; tweaking out certain long ago normal engineered in trademarks?
In other words, engineered slaves, that don’t realize they’re slaves of virtual mind-control via the electro-magnetic spectrum’s manipulation?
A twist of the Robots engineering man to be slaves.
Ironically coming from a 2D realm/territory, to conquer a 3D world?
White Rabbit
[haven’t even gotten to reading the blog yet…
Running late/SNAFU]
In watching some of the women’s Tokyo Wakeio Olympics I noticed a lot of uncharacteristic “falls”. I wondered if some electromagnetic interference was involved. As “they” are known for disaster capitalism using the Shock Doctrine and hitting on their own agents-in-place[Cuba}; what’s to stop them in messing w/the Olympics?
The first “public” acknowledgement of decoding full words from the brain; god knows how long this technology has really been around?
[in your book the decoding was admitted to in the 1970’s, and by that time 2000 words were already decoded.
Was man engineered to be mind controlled from the get-go?
Articles like this “Breakthrough” report are necessary to maintain the illusion that our Horse-and-Buggy society reflects the true state of existing technologies and science. There are reports from decades ago of recovered ET craft where the controls were operated by the thoughts of the craft occupants, whether or not mediated by headgear. This test subject Bravo1should have been named Alpha Centauri as being more in keeping with science’s pedigree. Whether these reports are true or not, the work reported in Microcosm and Medium confirms the concept if not the science of alien craft piloted by thought rather than manual controls. And this Bravo1 “Breakthrough” eking out 18 words a minute with the help of auto-correct compares with the true state of tech-enhanced thought transmission as cuneiform tablets compare with wifi. (Has anyone studied whether thought transmission tech works better with an ancient “language” like sanskrit, ancient Greek, Hebrew? More distinct or coherent brain patterns?)
Could the Havana and elsewhere sonic attacks actually be side effects of the malicious application of similar technology for INTEL gathering purposes?
SIDE EFFECTS. Good one.
Just remain inspired by Viktor Frankl : “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
I experience iyt myself that this get more and more difficult in the current times.
Being targeted is a good test of one’s character.
“There are powerful forces of evil in the world. It is some men’s fate to confront great darkness. We each choose how to react. If the choice is fear, then we become vulnerable to darkness.” Major Briggs/Twin Peaks
The current terrorism, would seem to confirm this. With Darkness comes occlusion. With Fear comes a refusal to look at what scares us, which is a detriment to intelligent consideration and an enabler, at times, of atrocious, misguided action and slaughter, such as the fearful ignorant are committing against us all, right now. With regard to the vulnerability posed by blind fear, it is certainly enabling possession by The Sub Par–as this article affirms. Twin Peaks is again a useful tool for exploring the topic and there is much to parse, both in this clip, and the series as a whole. Curiously, whenever I see even a pixelated effigy of Anthony Fauci, I think of this clip. I am amazed that people cannot see his grinning depraved essence for what it is. If I were standing next to him, I would expect him to stab me in the heart, laughingly, at any instant. “This is his true face. Oh, but few can see it. The gifted… And the damned.” One hopes, not the gifted and the damned….
https://youtu.be/kIzimmrDtTg
All your thoughts, they are belong to us
HAARP–or any atmospheric heater–could certainly produce mass torpor and despond in a low grade way, through use of positive ions. Infrasound and ultrasound could also inspire fear and panic in a susceptible segment of the populace. Likewise euphoria and well-being can be generated to sanction concurrent events with reward and surcease from such torture. Implanting thoughts, memories and experiences ups the ante and may ultimately lead to the ability of the parasite to feel both physically and emotionally through the host that it controls. Who you actually are, at that point, is subject to debate. I dislike suggesting it but, those of us currently, apparently able to resist may already have integrated or incorporated “something else” into our mix which precludes easy control of our already collective selves. I prefer to believe that a well developed and cultivated sort of Integrity and a trained mental immune system guide the Progress of my Royal “We” and attack the viral ideograms of the diseased gestalt, but I try to remain open–or rather, cognizant of–the possibilities and the threats posed by machine and psychic terrorism and dominance. The vicarious “feeling” obtained by the insensate through mass and individual torture may well be a precursor to more intimate forms of vicarious experience. They sure do seem to want to control us utterly and to breech or violate the integrity of our person with their pricks. I feel that empathy, is the only form of mutually altering observation from the perspective of another person, that one should embrace. It is also the most powerful form of Observable Effect and Affect and an utterly essential element of intelligence. I think the this is not only something often missed by our scientists but also lacking in their scrutiny…. And when you have no Empathy, you become disinteresting to the World at large, and thus, apt to be selected for extinction. We are, after all, supposed to help ease the burdens of that which sacrifices and endures so much on our behalf….
Columbia University calls for “neurological rights.” https://nri.ntc.columbia.edu/
Chile introduces legislation
https://nri.ntc.columbia.edu/news/chile-neurorights-international-lab-originally-spanish