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Originally posted by maybereal11
I briefly researched the MK Ultra program which was a spin-off of the Nazi psychological experiments. The US even brought some of the same doctors over here after the war.
I had to stop researching when I realized the premise...Splitting the psyche in order to create a psuedo manchurian candidate...It was just too ugly.
You can actually create a split-personality...essentially a walled off portion of someone's psyche. How? Well look at the history of split-personality patients. Severe emotional and psychological trauma at a very, very young age, most often a result of torture or sexual abuse.
Like I said it gets ugly fast. Once you have divided the psyche you can implant triggers and ideally a single pavlonian phrase that makes them shift to thier alternate state...a state in which they have been trained to carry out specific tasks.
Did they ever pull it off? I hope not. All I know is they tried and that is horrific enough.
Wikipedia has a summary:
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by maybereal11
I briefly researched the MK Ultra program which was a spin-off of the Nazi psychological experiments. The US even brought some of the same doctors over here after the war.
I had to stop researching when I realized the premise...Splitting the psyche in order to create a psuedo manchurian candidate...It was just too ugly.
You can actually create a split-personality...essentially a walled off portion of someone's psyche. How? Well look at the history of split-personality patients. Severe emotional and psychological trauma at a very, very young age, most often a result of torture or sexual abuse.
Like I said it gets ugly fast. Once you have divided the psyche you can implant triggers and ideally a single pavlonian phrase that makes them shift to thier alternate state...a state in which they have been trained to carry out specific tasks.
Did they ever pull it off? I hope not. All I know is they tried and that is horrific enough.
Wikipedia has a summary:
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by spacebot
I also I wonder what happens to all those people that retire from the agencies that deal with that stuff. Do we expect their own memories get erased? Probably not. Who keeps them at check with all this knowledge? There could be dozens of even private agencies around the globe right now with valued expertise from the US and the former USSR and nobody would be able to keep them at check, creating all kind of chaos and mayhem.
If you want to split a mind faster than trying to hypnotize them just give them a few alcoholic beverages and people will do all kinds of things they won't normally do. Straight guys becomes gay, prude women become loose, nice person becomes irritable and cruel, the ugly becomes ok for just tonight, the wallflower blooms etc.
Originally posted by Nephi1337
This also goes along with people only releasing their true limits to their personality. For that moment the limits of society they have placed upon themselves does not apply. That's why I believe it is a crock to blame alcohol on people's weird behavior because that portion of their personality is already in them.
i couldent agree more my good man
[edit on 21/4/10 by toochaos4u]
Originally posted by spacebot
I also I wonder what happens to all those people that retire from the agencies that deal with that stuff. Do we expect their own memories get erased? Probably not. Who keeps them at check with all this knowledge? There could be dozens of even private agencies around the globe right now with valued expertise from the US and the former USSR and nobody would be able to keep them at check, creating all kind of chaos and mayhem.