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With new technology, scientists are able to exert wireless control over brain cells of mice with just the push of a button. The first thing they did was make the mice hungry.
READY YOUR TINFOIL HATS—mind control is not as far-fetched an idea as it may seem. In Jeffrey M. Friedman’s laboratory, it happens all the time, though the subjects are mice, not people.
The solution that Friedman’s group hit upon, referred to as radiogenetics or magnetogenetics, avoids these problems. With their method, published last year in Nature, biologists can turn neurons on or off in a live animal at will—quickly, repeatedly, and without implants—by engineering the cells to make them receptive to radio waves or a magnetic field.
Friedman’s team realized that they could use a genetically engineered virus to create doorways into a neuron’s outer membrane. If they could then somehow attach each door to a ferritin particle, they reasoned, they might be able to wiggle the ferritin enough to jostle the door open. “The ‘door’ we chose is called TRPV1,” says Stanley. “Once TRPV1 is activated, calcium and sodium ions would next flow into the cell and trigger the neuron to fire.” The bits borrowed from camels and jellyfish provided what the scientists needed to connect the door to the ferritin (see How to outfit a brain sidebar, right).
“The method allows one to wirelessly control the expression of genes in a living animal and could potentially be used for conditions like hemophilia to control the production of a missing protein. Two key attributes are that the system is genetically encoded and can activate cells remotely and quickly,”
The new system, dubbed radiogenetics, uses a signal, in this case low-frequency radio waves or a magnetic field, to heat or move ferritin particles. They, in turn, prompt the opening of TRPV1, which is situated in the membrane surrounding the cell. Calcium ions then travel through the channel, switching on a synthetic piece of DNA the scientists developed to turn on the production of a downstream gene, which in this study was the insulin gene.
In an earlier study, the researchers used only radio waves as the ‘on’ signal, but in the current study, they also tested out a related signal – a magnetic field –to activate insulin production. They found it had a similar effect as the radio waves.
At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty—and their privacy—to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests. In many developed countries, enforced cooperation with a suite of new regulations and agreements slowly but steadily restored both order and, importantly, economic growth.
originally posted by: ColeYounger
a reply to: infolurker
This is definitely a scary topic. I was discussing this and similar issues with a couple friends recently. There's a segment of humanity that is absolutely racing toward these scenarios. Big tech and certain transhumanism proponents come to mind. They want total control. No more individualism or autonomy.
As you said, there will be nothing left of us. Drones with no free will.
originally posted by: infolurker
On the Dark Side of course it could turn us all into dumbed down drones..
"So, technocracy . . . the technocracy that they’re pushing towards is what is called transhumanism. So, essentially, what you do is you use injections to inject materials into the body that create the equivalent of an operating system. So everybody knows the idea of Microsoft causing you to download an operating system in your computer that gives Microsoft and a variety of other players a back door into your computer. And .and every month or two or three, you’ve got to update it because there are viruses, right? It’s back to the magic virus that can solve all problems.
And so this is a similar system for your body. You inject materials into your body that essentially create the equivalent of an operating system and a receiver, and you can literally hook everybody up to the cloud. And that includes hooking them up in a way that their transaction system,..
You’re basically talking about being able to digitally identify and track people in connection with their financial transactions. So it’s a world of zero . . . zero privacy. But more importantly, what’s important to understand is you . . . if you . . . if you then institute one or more central bank cryptos, you’re now talking about a system where every central bank of the world can shut you off individually from transacting if they don’t like the way you’re behaving.
So many people are familiar with the social credit system in China. It’s very similar. You’re . . . you’re basically if you . . . if you installed the smart grid in their car, their community and now in their . . . literally in their body, you’ve got 24/7 surveillance. And if people don’t do what you say and behave the way you want, you know, they can and . . . and will shut off your money. So, and . . . and they’ll also have spatial control: if they say you can’t travel more than five miles, that’s it. You know, because you’re in a . . . you’re in a complete digital control system and it’s controlled by the central bankers through the money. We’re digitising everything, but it includes the human body as well and the human mind. So this system comes with complete control, not only of your ability to transact financially, which is hooked up to your body, but very sophisticated mind control technology through the media and those cloud connections. So . . . so basically, you’re talking about hooking up into the Borg, if you will.
And . . . and so transhumanism and technocracy go hand in hand. Now, I would describe this is a slavery system. So we’re talking about shifting out of freedom, where we have freedom to roam and freedom to say what we want, into a complete control system 24/7, including mind control. Now, the challenge before us is if the, you know, sort of the committee that runs the world, my nickname being ‘Mr Global’, if Mr Global wants to go to a slavery system and we want to remain a human civilisation, then we have a fundamental disagreement. And that is the disagreement before us.
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