Fri Oct 7, 2022 – 5:17 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. government just boosted research efforts to map the human brain, which observers note will allow scientists to “directly alter neural function using digital devices,” a transhumanist achievement.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched “BRAIN 2.0” (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnology), giving $600 million in fresh funding to accelerate and expand a program launched in 2014 under the Obama administration. The initiative aims to map our 86 billion neurons and understand “how they’re different,” and how they’re organized, according to Stat News.
The project’s most immediate aims are therapeutic, with ongoing efforts to digitally generate speech from the totally paralyzed, for example, or alleviate severe depression with electrical jolts. But, as Obama pointed out during BRAIN’s unveiling, research opens the possibility to unexpected inventions: “The Apollo project that put man on the moon gave us, eventually, CAT scans,” he noted at the time.
BRAIN’s scope includes projects under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), including a program to develop an implantable neural interface to provide “data transfer” “between the brain and the digital world,” essentially allowing electronic “mind reading” as well
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