Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century (Paperback)

from staciec

This book has some really interesting topics related to advances in neuroscience and their implications in the military, with a heavy emphasis on the ethical concerns involved. It avoided conspiracy theory language, which I appreciated. The narrative was difficult to follow in some places, but I ...

from Bricker

An intriguing and occasionally frightening look at the future of neuroscience. While it's impressive what could be done to help those with prosthetic limbs move and live more normally through a brain-technology connection, the idea that the military could use the same technology to fight a more p...

from TKnapp

Thought-provoking book on the support of research in neuroscience by the security agencies of the government. The book covers a wide spectrum of research into the brain and how it functions as well as the mind. The results of research to develop methods by which soldiers abilities may be enhanced...

from buchowl

I don't know whether to be frightened or heartened by this book. For good or bad, right or wrong, it is often from military development that world changing innovations unfold. By nature, these discoveries and usages tend to be cloaked in secrecy which makes applying ethical thought to them proble...

from DarthDeverell

In Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century, bioethics professor Jonathan D. Moreno explores the hypothesis, "If national security agencies had so much interest in how the relatively primitive brain science of the 1950s and 1960s could help find ways to gain a national securi...