From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Sun Oct 18 1998 - 03:31:43 MDT
Remote mind control by radio-controlled brain implants
had been mastered as far back as 1964, to the point that
scientists "played" animals "like little electronic toys,"
according to the following New York Times article:
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 17, 1965, front page
'Matador' With a Radio Stops Wired Bull: Modified
Behavor in Animals Subject of Brain Study.
By John A. Osmundsen
Afternoon sunlight poured over the high wooden
barriers into the ring, as the brave bull bore
down on the unarmed "matador" -- a scientist
who had never faced fighting bull.
But the charging animal's horns never reached
the man behind the heavy red cape. Moments be-
fore that could happen, Dr. Jose Delgado, the sci-
entist, pressed a button on a small radio trans-
mitter in his hand and the bull braked to a halt.
Then he pressed another button on the transmit-
ter, and the bull obediently turned to the right
and trotted away.
The bull was obeying commands in his brain that
were being called forth by electrical stimulation
-- by the radio signals -- of certain regions in
which fine wires had been painlessly planted."
The experiment, conducted last year in Cordova,
Spain, by Dr. Delgado of Yale University's School
of Medicine, was probably the most spectacular
demonstration ever performed of the deliberate
modification of animal behavior through external
control of the brain. . . .
He has been working in this field for more than
15 years. Techniques that he and other scientists
have recently developed have been refined to the
point where, he believes, "a turning point has
been reached in the study of the mind."
"I do believe," he said in a recent lecture,
"that an understanding of the biological bases
of social and antisocial behavior and of mental
activities, which for the first time in history
can now be explored in a conscious brain, may be
of decisive importance in the search for intelli-
gent solutions to some of our present anxieties,
frustrations and conflicts."
. . . (page 20)
Based on His Experiment
Dr. Delgado's contention that brain research
has reached a stage of refinement where it can
contribute to the solution of some...problems
is based he said, on many of his own experiments.
These have shown, he explained, that "functions
traditionally related to the psyche, such as
friendliness, pleasure or verbal expression,
can be induced, modified and inhibited by
direct electrical stimulation to the brain."
For example, he has been able to "play" monkeys
and cats "like little electronic toys" that yawn,
hide, fight, play, mate and go to sleep on command.
. . .
Some of The Results Listed
With such techniques, Dr. Delgado has shown:
* Monkeys will learn to press a button that
sends a stimulus to the brain of an enraged
member of the colony and calms it down, in-
dicating that animals can be taught to con-
trol other's behavior.
* A monkey, stimulated to extremely aggres-
sive behavior will make "intelligent" attacks
only on competitive members of the colony,
sparing other, friendlier, ones.
* Monkeys and cats can be triggered into se-
quential behavior in which one might open its
mouth, turn around, walk to a corner, climb a
wall, jump down and return to "start," repeat-
ing those movement in the same order every
time they are stimulated but will modify the
pattern if other animals get in the way or if
they are threatened.
The latter two experiments show that electri-
cal brain stimulation does not simply evoke
automatic responses but reactions that become
integrated into the social behavior according
to the individual's own personality or temp-
erament, Dr. Delgado said.
Experiments have been conducted on human beings
by Dr. Delgado and other scientists, primarily
during the treatment of certain types of epil-
epsy. Stimulation of particular areas of the
brain have produced anxiety, profound feelings
of friendliness and, in one case, a six-fold
increase in word output.
The Yale neurophysiologist believes that tech-
niques such as the one he is using can lead to
the discovery of the cerebral basis of anxiety,
pleasure, aggression and other mental functions
and that "we shall be in a much better position
to influence their development and manifestation
(in various ways) especially by means of more
scientifically programmed education."
Source: THE NEW YORK TIMES, 'Matador' With a Radio Stops
Wired Bull: Modified Behavor in Animals Subject of Brain
Study." By John A. Osmundsen. May 17, 1965. Page 1 & 20.
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