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Prisoners 'could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours'

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[OK. Who would be on your short list to be a crash-test dummy w/ this new drug?
Here, let me help start you out... Barak Obama—8 hrs of drug co. rep sales pitches
Joe Biden—8 hrs of credit card co. commercials
George W Bush—8 hrs of Budweiser and pretzel commercials
Darth Cheney—88 hrs of "collateral damage" films shot in Iraq and Saddam Hussein speeches
Gene Steinberg—8 revolving hrs of Fox News shows, O'Reilly, Hannity, Savage, or whomever else...
Might be fun... —chris]

Future biotechnology could be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1,000 year sentence, a team of scientists claim

By Rhiannon Williams/The Telegraph
Article HERE:

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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence, a group of scientists have claimed. Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform punishment. Dr Roache claims the prison sentence of serious criminals could be made worse by extending their lives.

Speaking to Aeon magazine, Dr Roache said drugs could be developed to distort prisoners' minds into thinking time was passing more slowly. "There are a number of psychoactive drugs that distort people’s sense of time, so you could imagine developing a pill or a liquid that made someone feel like they were serving a 1,000-year sentence," she said. A second scenario would be to upload human minds to computers to speed up the rate at which the mind works, she wrote on her blog.

"If the speed-up were a factor of a million, a millennium of thinking would be accomplished in eight and a half hours... Uploading the mind of a convicted criminal and running it a million times faster than normal would enable the uploaded criminal to serve a 1,000 year sentence in eight-and-a-half hours. This would, obviously, be much cheaper for the taxpayer than extending criminals’ lifespans to enable them to serve 1,000 years in real time."Thirty years in prison is currently the most severe punishment available in the UK legal system.

"To me, these questions about technology are interesting because they force us to rethink the truisms we currently hold about punishment. When we ask ourselves whether it’s inhumane to inflict a certain technology on someone, we have to make sure it’s not just the unfamiliarity that spooks us," Dr Roache said.

"Is it really OK to lock someone up for the best part of the only life they will ever have, or might it be more humane to tinker with their brains and set them free? When we ask that question, the goal isn’t simply to imagine a bunch of futuristic punishments – the goal is to look at today’s punishments through the lens of the future." REST OF ARTICLE HERE:
 
Id like to what type of criminal would be getting this? I would say this would be used as a scare tactic to newbies or those who made stupid mistakes, not a serial killer or such, no way, give him/her a 1,000 year sentence in 8 1/2 hours, it should be something worse
 
We are also working on methods to redact memorys (though its been claimed we already have these at our disposal)

US Air Force, New World Vistas: Air and Space Power for the 21st Century – Ancillary Volume, Scientific Advisory Board (USAF), Washington, DC, Document #19960618040, 1996, pp. 89-90. EPI402

This document actually talks about an ability to insert and redact memorys in subjects


Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be,
  • pulsed, shaped, and focused
  • that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements
  • control emotions (and thus actions)
  • produce sleep
  • transmit suggestions
  • interfere with both short-term and long-term memory
  • produce an experience set
  • delete an experience set

It would be even cheaper to simply do a little pscho surgery, identify and redact the engrams responsible for the unlawful behaviour.
 
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not even wrong said:
Exactly, what has already been tested under the cover of "national security"?
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We know the government can/does legally conduct abductions and just disappear anyone -U.S. Citizens included. Is the abduction sky the limit? I think not... ET & UFO's are part of The Plan and The Control too.

Paranoid? Paranoia is part of The Plan too!
 
DissectionStalker said:
Missing time drugs... for Humans posing-ET's? Already been tested?

Off-topic, but it makes me wonder.
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Interesting point and I would have probably missed it had you not brought it up but missing time reports are as old as time itself going back to fairy lore...sorry gentry, I guess I'm not supposed to use that word...it could be said that whatever forces were behind missing time events back then...including someone's vivid imagination...are just as likely behind missing time reports today.
 
mike said:
Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be,
  • pulsed, shaped, and focused
  • that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements
  • control emotions (and thus actions)
  • produce sleep
  • transmit suggestions
  • interfere with both short-term and long-term memory
  • produce an experience set
  • delete an experience set
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Who decides what is positive and what is negative in the neurologically manipulated future of humanity you seem to support? I personally think that most of the above claims are a crock, as you know. ;)
 
Constance said:
Who decides what is positive and what is negative in the neurologically manipulated future of humanity you seem to support? I personally think that most of the above claims are a crock, as you know. ;)
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To the first question, i'd say the same people who decide and sentence people to prison today.

To the second

Scientists 'Rewrite' Bad Memories in Mice - US News

For decades scientists believed that long-term memories were immutable—unstable for a few hours and then etched into the brain for good. Research now suggests that recalling a memory causes it to revert temporarily to an insecure state, in which the recollection can be added to, modified, even erased. “Memory is more dynamic, more fluid and malleable than we thought,” says neuroscientist Daniela Schiller of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
That idea, brought to the fore about a decade ago, has opened up a new controversial research area exploring the possibility of deleting, or at least muting, parts of human memory with drugs or targeted therapies. Some experts have found that a drug used to treat high blood pressure works to unseat recollections; others are testing novel biochemical means or behavioral interventions to interfere with unwanted remembrances. [For more on psychological forgetting strategies, see “Trying to Forget,” by Ingrid Wickelgren.

Scientists Manipulate and Erase Memories - Scientific American

NaturalNews) In a laboratory environment, scientists have learned how to create, delete and restore memories. The subjects are currently rats. Researchers are considering the following results to be a major breakthrough.

In a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California's San Diego School of Medicine, a team of researchers successfully erased memories in rats. They were then able to reactivate those same memories, altering the animal's response to past events in the process.

The study was published in the online issue of the scientific journal Nature and is the first to confirm that memories can be selectively erased and then predictably reactivated.


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/045474_mind_control_erase_memories_dark_science.html#ixzz3QGDcnKH4


Getting back to the first question, perhaps the criminal will be given the choice

10 years prison for the crime, or corrective pschowipe
 
Scientists can delete and restore memory | Ultrafuture World

Scientists selectively erase memories from meth-addicted mice - CNET#!



This is where the mice come in. If those associations could be erased from the addict's memory, overcoming the addiction would become significantly easier. The trick, of course, lies in removing just those memories, leaving the rest intact. And that is exactly what the Scripps team, led by TSRI assistant professor Courtney Miller, has managed to do.

"Our memories make us who we are, but some of these memories can make life very difficult," Miller said. "Not unlike in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, we're looking for strategies to selectively eliminate evidence of past experiences related to drug abuse or a traumatic event. Our study shows we can do just that in mice — wipe out deeply ingrained drug-related memories without harming other memories."
 
Mike, I'm not against technology that can alleviate pain, increase capability in damaged parts of the body in humans and animals, and achieve similar humane goals. I am against the fairy story that is being propagated by popular science writers, university PR departments, and people like Kurzweil that neuroscientists can and should develop ways to control and reshape human minds and even displace them with artificial general intelligences.
 
University of California, San Diego Health Sciences
Summary:
Researchers have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals’ reaction to past events. The study is the first to show the ability to selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimulating nerves in the brain at frequencies that are known to weaken and strengthen the connections between nerve cells, called synapses.

How to erase a memory –- and restore it: Researchers reactivate memories in rats -- ScienceDaily
 
Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be,
  • pulsed, shaped, and focused
  • that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements
  • control emotions (and thus actions)
  • produce sleep
  • transmit suggestions
  • interfere with both short-term and long-term memory
  • produce an experience set
  • delete an experience set

Links added
 
It's very 'Inception' , the idea of a drug to make time seem to pass slowly. Brings up a heap of moral questions too, think about this: drugs are never an exact science really, in terms of total effect, efficacy and half-life etc. So how easy might it be to accidentally cause someone to 'serve' 110 years as opposed to a '90 year' sentence, just due to the way a drug might work slightly differently in one person compared with another?

I would think also that with an ability to make people feel they have existed for a very-unnatural lifetime, the opportunity for abuse is horrific. I can envisage CIA rendition and '100 hour water-boarding' sessions, also just the threat of 'detaining' someone for a relatively long time.

It might then become easy for the justice system to process convictions and sentences in a fraction of normal times, and therefore so easily fix the problem of overcrowding that plagues most prison services worldwide. I can see such drugs almost being called more moral than traditional sentences because someone could 'serve' 20 years at age 20 and still be released at a young age. So does that actually take away some of the punishment? Surely a huge part of long sentences is that often prisoners waste their best years languishing behind bars. Would it be the same punishment if prisoners felt the sentence the correct chronological time as standard, but did not have to give up their youthful years? Many interesting questions...
 
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