Government Brain Print Machine Would Identify "Terrorist Thoughts" (No Joke) Dr. John Norseen's research gives new meaning to the term "thought crime" 9/26/01 10:40:28 AM Becky Oberg for LSN Washington, DC -- According to an article in Boy's Life, the U.S. Department of Defense is interested in Norseen's current biofusion project, which translates the brain's electrical patterns into mathematical models called "brain prints". They've hired him to develop ways of identifying terrorist thoughts in brain prints. A brain mapping device hooked to an airport security scanner will compare a person's thoughts with computerized maps. "This is a powerful concept: That a handful of images can shape the self- identity of a person, a group, a society, a culture," wrote Norseen in a report on brain patterns. He explains that Van Gogh's famous ear-removal might not have been in a fit of rage, but due to instable brain waves. "Rather than the accepted interpretation that in some fit of rage, he was performing self-inflicted surgery to relieve an inner ear infection, could there really have been some hypersensitivity, some extreme antinomy, to Ban Gogh's Broca-Wernicke area, in that he was trying to silence internal voices, in a phase locked loop, that were compelling him in some tortuous semiotic malady?" he wrote. According to Norseen, "The United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) report, "New World Vistas - 21st Century," commissioned by the Secretary of the Air Force and co-signed by the Chief of Staff (94), concluded in 1996, on pages 50 and 51 of the Executive Summary that: '...Novel enhancements in Human-Machine Interaction...be aggressively pursued. The ultimate interaction is Thought Control.' Semiotic based approaches are suggested for the next millenium control of Intelligent Systems, including Uninhabited Combat Aeronautical Vehicles." Norseen talks about some potential uses of brain prints in his report. "Since human mental output is error prone, and human infants take years to fully develop the structural capacity for complete semiotic functioning, there would be an evolutionary advantage for older humans to teach and help shape the error correcting potential of replacement infants," he wrote. "Whereas not all older humans would have the same amount of evolutionary interest in the previous statement, infants would be at an advantage to more closely interact with those older humans willing to share learned semiotic knowledge." Norseen's report can be viewed at http://www.acsa2000.net/john2.html Libertarian Socialist News Post Office Box 12244 Silver Spring, MD 20908 http://www.overthrow.com (check out our messageboards -- discuss this story on-line!) (Formerly http://www.libertariansocialist.com)
