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The Fear of Technology Stimulating the Brain
There's active research at many leading centers in the country to develop brain stimulation devices that will ameliorate these you know terribly disabling disorders. The dream is if we can understand the circuits that are particularly involved in a condition like obsessive compulsive disorder or depression and we can target a device to just hit that part of the brain but not mess up the rest of the brain, that's the dream. If somebody hacked it are we in a position where I can be made to see things that do not exist is it the matrix can I be compelled to do things against my will how potentially destructive or dangerous could this technology get right now? It's a pathway in and a pathway out so the