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The war inside your mind: unprotected brain battlefields and neuro-vulnerability
Abstract
The 21st century featured explosive discoveries, inventions, and finely crafted technologies where the vaguely dangerous and ambiguous mix of genomics, neuroscience, nanotech, robotics, cyber, and other advanced scientific ventures leads to unknown and possibly unpleasant outcomes pose an acute dilemma. The engineered convergence of advanced technology such as cutting-edge medical technology frontiers of cognitive dynamics, decoding key neural functions, explaining brain biochemistry, and exploring excursions into neuromodulation and plasticity research make the brain a prime object of sustained scientific desire. Today it has become a covert contentious battlefield. Experts in neuromedicine, technology, societal security, and strategy must grasp that a variety of technologies that arguably enhance brain function, influence or augment intelligence, link brains with computers, and enablenon invasice access to the brain-are highly attractive. Now the grim reality is that like so many other aspects of science and technology all ostensibly benign, decent, therapeutic, and beneficial they also contain a dark, malevolent, destructive warlike side as well. Our brains are vulnerable daily within a complex electromagnetic—cyber—RF saturated environment and that vulnerability is critical to grasping our collective dilemma. Cognitive integritys is a paramount risk for our times.
... In the same way that the explosive energy of a big explosion can cause chaos and destruction in the universe, a traumatic brain injury can severely damage the brain and disrupt its normal functions (Brown et al., 2018). The brain is a multifaceted organ that regulates all aspects of our thoughts, emotions, and movements (McCreight, 2024). Consequently, any disturbance to its delicate equilibrium can result in severe repercussions (Jha & Ghewade, 2022). ...
... This sudden impact has the potential to generate a shockwave effect in the brain, akin to the shockwave that emanates from a cosmic detonation (Andreopoulos et al., 2016;Mason, 2018). In the same way that the force of a big bang can cause a significant disturbance in the universe, a traumatic brain injury can cause widespread damage to the brain, impacting multiple regions and functions (Brown et al., 2018;Cherian et al., 2024;McCreight, 2024). ...
... Additionally, the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury can be likened to the aftermath of a big bang in the sense that both can leave behind a trail of chaos and devastation Khan et al., 2003). Changes in personality, mood fluctuations, and difficulties with social interactions may be observed in the context of brain injury (Cai et al., 2022;Jha & Ghewade, 2022;McCreight, 2024). As they adjust to the injury's impact and navigate the new normal, these changes can be difficult for both the individual with the injury and their loved ones (Chow, 2000;Norup & Mortensen, 2014;Rieger, 2015). ...
In terms of its devastating consequences on cognitive function and general neurological health, brain trauma is comparable to the aftermath of a big bang. Brain trauma sets off a cascade of events within the brain that can result in extensive damage and disruption of normal functioning, much like the force of a big bang starts a chain reaction of destruction throughout the cosmos. Secondary mechanisms like oxidative stress, excitotoxicity, and apoptosis are brought on by the first impact's instantaneous release of neurotransmitters and inflammatory reactions. A cascade of these events can lead to emotional dysregulation, motor dysfunction, and long-term cognitive problems. Using this analogy to understand brain trauma emphasizes how severe and irreversible its effects are, underscoring the urgent need for efficient preventative measures and therapeutic approaches to lessen its terrible effects.
La guerra cognitiva se define como un conjunto de actividades destinadas a influir, modificar o controlar percepciones, emociones, actitudes, comportamientos y procesos de toma de decisiones con el objetivo de alterar las capacidades cognitivas de individuos y grupos para alcanzar una posición de ventaja estratégica sobre los adversarios sin necesidad de recurrir al uso directo de la fuerza. La guerra cognitiva, un concepto emergente donde se desdibujan los límites entre la guerra y la paz, se fundamenta en el uso de las ciencias neurocognitivas y otros avances científicos y tecnológicos, como la nanotecnología, la biotecnología o la robótica, para manipular y perturbar la cognición humana, un componente fundamental en el actual entorno de seguridad internacional. Este artículo presenta la guerra cognitiva como una opción estratégica al servicio de los intereses de poder y seguridad de diferentes competidores globales en un escenario internacional definido por la transformación y la creciente rivalidad geopolítica.
This article outlines the risks of broad neurocognitive warfare among advanced nations as new kind of 21st century conflict which is invisible, silent and devastating.
Advances in biophysics, biology, functional genomics, neuroscience, psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and other fields suggest the existence of a subtle system of "biofield" interactions that organize biological processes from the subatomic, atomic, molecular, cellular, and organismic to the interpersonal and cosmic levels. Biofield interactions may bring about regulation of biochemical, cellular, and neurological processes through means related to electromagnetism, quantum fields, and perhaps other means of modulating biological activity and information flow. The biofield paradigm, in contrast to a reductionist, chemistry-centered viewpoint, emphasizes the informational content of biological processes; biofield interactions are thought to operate in part via low-energy or "subtle" processes such as weak, nonthermal electromagnetic fields (EMFs) or processes potentially related to consciousness and nonlocality. Biofield interactions may also operate through or be reflected in more well-understood informational processes found in electroencephalographic (EEG) and electrocardiographic (ECG) data. Recent advances have led to the development of a wide variety of therapeutic and diagnostic biofield devices, defined as physical instruments best understood from the viewpoint of a biofield paradigm. Here, we provide a broad overview of biofield devices, with emphasis on those devices for which solid, peer-reviewed evidence exists. A subset of these devices, such as those based upon EEG- and ECG-based heart rate variability, function via mechanisms that are well understood and are widely employed in clinical settings. Other device modalities, such a gas discharge visualization and biophoton emission, appear to operate through incompletely understood mechanisms and have unclear clinical significance. Device modes of operation include EMF-light, EMF-heat, EMF-nonthermal, electrical current, vibration and sound, physical and mechanical, intentionality and nonlocality, gas and plasma, and other (mode of operation not well-understood). Methodological issues in device development and interfaces for future interdisciplinary research are discussed. Devices play prominent cultural and scientific roles in our society, and it is likely that device technologies will be one of the most influential access points for the furthering of biofield research and the dissemination of biofield concepts. This developing field of study presents new areas of research that have many important implications for both basic science and clinical medicine.
Replicating efficient chemical energy utilization of biological nanomotors is one ultimate goal of nanotechnology and energy technology. Here we report a rationally designed autonomous bipedal nanowalker made of DNA that achieves a fuel efficiency of less than two fuel molecules consumed per productive forward step, hence breaking a general threshold for chemically-powered machines invented to date. As a genuine enzymatic nanomotor without changing itself nor the track, the walker demonstrates a sustained motion on an extended double-stranded track at a speed comparable to previous burn-bridge motors. Like its biological counterparts, this artificial nanowalker realizes multiple chemomechanical gatings, especially a bias-generating product control unique to chemically powered nanomotors. This study yields rich insights into how pure physical effects facilitate harvest of chemical energy at the single-molecule level, and provides a rarely available motor system for future development towards replicating the efficient, repeatable, automatic and mechanistically sophisticated transportation seen in biomotor-based intracellular transport but beyond the capacity of the current burn-bridge motors.
Telomeres are the very ends of the chromosomes. They can be seen as natural double-strand breaks (DSB), specialized structures which prevent DSB repair and activation of DNA damage checkpoints. In somatic cells, attrition of telomeres occurs after each cell division until replicative senescence. In the absence of telomerase, telomeres shorten due to incomplete replication of the lagging strand at the very end of chromosome termini. Moreover, oxidative stress and accumulating reactive oxygen species (ROS) lead to an increased telomere shortening due to a less efficient repair of SSB in telomeres. The specialized structures at telomeres include proteins involved in both telomere maintenance and DNA repair. However when a telomere is damaged and has to be repaired, those proteins might fail to perform an accurate repair of the damage. This is the starting point of this article in which we first summarize the well-established relationships between DNA repair processes and maintenance of functional telomeres. We then examine how damaged telomeres would be processed, and show that irradiation alters telomere maintenance leading to possibly dramatic consequences. Our point is to suggest that those consequences are not restricted to the short term effects such as increased radiation-induced cell death. On the contrary, we postulate that the major impact of the loss of telomere integrity might occur in the long term, during multistep carcinogenesis. Its major role would be to act as an amplificator event unmasking in one single step recessive radiation-induced mutations among thousands of genes and providing cellular proliferative advantage. Moreover, the chromosomal instability generated by damaged telomeres will favour each step of the transformation from normal to fully transformed cells.
Biological interactions with scalar energy cellular mechanisms of action
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