I’ve got a piece in The Observer about how we’re moving towards viewing the brain as a series of modifiable brain circuits each responsible for distinct aspects of experience and behaviour.
The ‘brain circuit’ aspect is not new but the fact that neuroscience and medicine, on the billion-dollar global level, are reorienting themselves to focus on identifying and, crucially, altering brain circuits is a significant change we’ve seen only recently.
What many people don’t realise, is the extent to which direct stimulation of brain circuits by implanted electrodes is already happening.
Perhaps more surprising for some is the explosion in deep brain stimulation procedures, where electrodes are implanted in the brains of patients to alter electronically the activity in specific neural circuits. Medtronic, just one of the manufacturers of these devices, claims that its stimulators have been used in more than 100,000 patients. Most of these involve well-tested and validated treatments for Parkinson’s disease, but increasingly they are being trialled for a wider range of problems. Recent studies have examined direct brain stimulation for treating pain, epilepsy, eating disorders, addiction, controlling aggression, enhancing memory and for intervening in a range of other behavioural problems.
More on how we are increasingly focussed on hacking our circuits in the rest of the article.
Link to ‘Changing brains: why neuroscience is ending the Prozac era’.
Mind Hacks 
As we start to shake of the yoke of religious indoctrination we can start to look more evenhanded at our brains. Instead of a godlike image naturally superior we can now see it’s just another meatrobot following it’s preprogrammed instincts.
All our ‘accomplishments’ are only that in our own eyes, objectively they aren’t even on the scale.
As long as the doctor doesn’t forget your password, you’ll probably be OK.
as long as there’s not the dreaded forced password change very 30 days i guess we’re safe
For many reasons implanted electrodes seem a bit outdated if you can assume that DARPA
is more than 10 years ahead. Remote stim
is used on ppl who have been completely sleep
deprived for 3/4 of a year. Stim to the brain,
adrenals, heart etc. keeps the person alive
and at least looking normal. The above is completely involuntary w/o compensation with additional non-lethal experiments that leave no permanent physical damage and therefore leaving
no proof that anything happened at all. Then you have thousands of internet sites designed to nullify anything resembling a law suit regarding programs that make NSA PRISM look laughable.