The United States army is trying to create a force of ?telepathic troops? who can communicate silently in the din of battle by reading each other?s minds?..
The Irvine technology works like this: volunteers wear a cap studded with 128 gel-soaked electrodes and are asked to think of key words chosen by researchers who match them up with chemical flares they observe in the brain. The volunteers? thoughts are effectively ?read? and converted into computer code.
The key words include standard military commands which show up as symbols on a computer screen. These will eventually be used to create a dictionary of critical phrases, such as ?enemy ahead? or ?call in helicopters?, that can be transmitted to comrades.
The telepathy helmets can identify and correctly transmit 45 per cent of commands, according to The Brain. The army needs a radical improvement in that rate. Aviation sources say that if the success rate improved sufficiently, the technology could eventually be built in to fighter pilots? helmets to speed up response times to threats from incoming missiles.
The research raises a series of questions, including whether a mind-reading capability could be used in the interrogation of terrorist suspects, perhaps replacing methods such as waterboarding which are regarded by many as immoral and ineffective.
The Pentagon?s Defence Intelligence Agency recently released a report calling on the armed forces to spend more on neuroscience research, up to and including ways of making ?the enemy obey our commands?.
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