US Army Develops Mind-Reading Technology

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JAKARTA - The United States (US) Army developed a technology capable of reading human minds. Funds for technology projects are no joke.

Quoted Futurism, Thursday, November 26, the initial cash flow will be used for neuroscience research in an attempt to decode the meanings behind different brain signals. The Army Research Office (ARO) has announced a commitment to spend $ 6.25 million on the project over the next five years.

C4ISRNET reported that US soldiers were serious about the controversial project. Many have highlighted the impossible mission as foolish, given the fact that the military is still far from bringing telepathic-capable cyborgs into combat.

So far, ARO neuroscientists claim to have studied how to decode and parse the neural signals that direct behavior from other brain outputs. He also emphasized that this is still far from being a mind-reading form as translated by many people.

However, progress in this direction is not impossible. What ARO is doing right now is an important first step towards truly understanding what different brain signals mean.

"Here we are not only measuring the signal, we are interpreting it," ARO program manager Hamid Krim told C4ISRNET.

After this research, ARO will decode other categories of brain signals so that they can later be interpreted through a computerized process. In the end, the computer will be able to interpret the thoughts of a soldier.

“You can read whatever you want. Not that you understand it, "Cream said." The next step after that is to understand it. In the end, that's what it started out with: for the computer to actually be in full duplex communication mode with the brain. "

The ultimate goal that may be far in the future is to build a system that allows soldiers to communicate only with their thoughts. This is a bold initiative that highlights the strange ways medical technology can change the nature of war and soldiers themselves.