The new role for< the human will be as part of a group, no longercherishing his or her private values and liberties, but reduced to a componentdenied autonomy and enslaved under a new yoke in a social structure where bothnurture and neurological effects compose the basis for the faith in the newzeitgeist. TURNING THE TIDEWe are at a cross-roads where the choices relating to human freedom areeither confinement behind an electronic barbed-wire fence or growth like anexquisite blossom flourishing out of its own biological depths. It is time todiscuss the consequences of brain-computer systems and that people, of course,must be entitled to the basic human This symbol stand for total clearance or resetting-when this button ispressed, the computer erases all stored data. The ongoing trend has to cease so that people no longer need to be slavesor victims of neuro-surveillance and behavior modification procedures, butrather have the power to defeat regimentation and external techno-control toassume the opportunities of freedom and happiness and become the masters oftechnology. Senator Glenn's words, that he would be able to assure people in the US thattheir government is no longer conducting experiments unknown to theindividual, should be a demand any politician internationally would address tohimself and do what he can to bring the secret neuro-experiments to publicknowledge and an end. If nothing is ever done to change the current development the computerisationof mankind will create an ice-cold reality in which the future is frozen andall humanity eliminated. Once aware of the circumstances, it is easier tounderstand the behavioural changes the many people exhibit as a result of themodified conditions under which our neurological processes operate when linkedup to cerebral-computer systems. This is the | first time in history that the human has been a victim of interference withhis cerebral functions by external sources. The main question is who will have the right to one's brain, psychicalfunctioning, personality and entire life. Is it to be the state, or oneself?Are a person's thoughts, deeds and behaviour to be thrown under state control,stored on computer and scrutinized by the new computer-hierarchy? Or willpeople be free to live their own lives without being slaves of neuro-surveillance systems which can manipulate and change opinions, personalitiesand entire life processes. Certainly, there must be a public debate on thisissue in the media. It is the inner and most important freedom which isthreatened including our brains, the future, our children and furthergenerations. Are we all, going to live in a system where our brains are understate occupation, simply because our generation dared not to face the problem?Would not bring up the terrifying truth to public knowledge and the debate itdeserved in the mass media. It is vital that everyone with a sense of human and social responsibilityparticipates to bring these developments, as important as they are secret, topublic awareness through the media. The political system claims to be opposedto violence and other perversions arising from the law of the jungle, but itis these very qualities which they drag down to a person's most sacred source,offending morality and all human principles, all signed conventions on humanrights, all rights and honour. Something we together must expose to preventenvironmental destruction within our brains. Stockholm in 1996 Lennart Lindqvist Gruppen |
right notto be forced to live under such inhuman research programmes which serve tofurnish scientists, medical researchers and the state with what is essentiallya person's own private source of personal information. The advancing tide ofdevelopment has to be curbed and redirected so people can reach a higherstatus then the immeasurable spread of computer-technology all the way intothe human brain.