Tribute to Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Brain Implants

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> Date: September 26, 2017 at 9:41:48 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>, John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> Subject: Tribute to Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Brain Implants
>
> Dave, I thought your list might like this article on Jose Delgado, a pioneering explorer of the neural code. John 
> Horgan
>
> Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Mind-Control
>
>  
>
> Neuroscientist based at Yale in 1960s controlled bulls, monkeys and humans with brain implants and envisioned a 
> “psychocivilized society.”
>
> Once among the world’s most acclaimed scientists, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, who died in 2001, has become an 
> urban legend, whose career is shrouded in misinformation. Delgado pioneered that most unnerving of technologies, the 
> brain chip, which manipulates the mind by electrically stimulating neural tissue with implanted electrodes. Long a 
> McGuffin of science fictions, from The Terminal Man to The Matrix, brain chips are now being tested as treatments for 
> epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, paralysis, depression, and other disorders.
>
> In part because it was relatively unencumbered by ethical regulations, Delgado’s research rivaled and even surpassed 
> much of what is being done today. In 1965, The New York Times reported on its front page that he had stopped a 
> charging bull in its tracks by sending a radio signal to a device implanted in its brain. He also implanted 
> radio-equipped electrode arrays, which he called “stimoceivers,” in dogs, cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, gibbons, and 
> humans. With the push of a button, he could evoke smiles, snarls, bliss, terror, hunger, garrulousness, lust, and 
> other responses...​
>
> Continue at 
> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/
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