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Verichip , Brain Scanning and the religion of Transhumanism

A sign of the times - A Neo Luddite's perspective

Posted 8 October, 2009

"I always tell my students that there is no science fiction anymore. All the science fiction I read in high school, we're doing,"
  - Paul Root Wolpe, Center for Ethics at Emory University in Atlanta

We have moved past science fiction. In fact if one is following technology trends, Moore's Law (which states that computer processing power should double every two years) is not accurate. Moore's law has gone on a hefty dose of steroids and donned Superman's flying cape as technology is no longer merely evolving past technological obstacles but smashing them to smithereens, with the previously impossible being achieved on a consistent and daily basis. Computer designers are now moving beyond silicon chips to using DNA chips ... a move from geologic roots to biologic roots, making the computer a closer representation of man.

The ground shaking advances in nano-technology, biometric data capture, Genome sequencing, DNA and Biochips make for a scenario that is indeed frightening. As we move into a world where our civil liberties have been eroded and our human rights diminished to fight the invisible morphing 'enemies,' technology has been given a reprieve to march forward unrestricted and without regard as to its impact on our lives. What has happened to our right to privacy, which is violated when states interfere with, penalize or prohibit actions which only concern the individual? Scholars point out that these rights are underwritten by common and universal law.

Does it matter that human microchipping is a violation of at least nineteen of the articles of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Well it seems Wall Street does not answer to morals and ethics; that's for the birds.

With new laws being rushed into congress and parliaments around the world, movements like We The People Will Not Be Chipped are termed 'neo-luddite' and 'technophobic' by the front men of universities who are nothing more than talking puppet heads promoting the elite's agenda. The Department of Homeland Security has labeled people that don't embrace technology with a hug, embrace and a cup of tea as anti-technology extremist 'terrorists.'

So let us put this into perspective, is the government mandating the people roll up their arms and get microchipped? Maybe not right now but we need to look at the legislation and what is being proposed by world governments so one can prepare and put a stop on what is the last frontier of human tracking.

The premise that all advances in technology should be embraced by the general populace is a ridiculous and illogical premise, but let's remember these university talking heads who have many letters after their names are much smarter that you. Let's gloss over the fact their seed funding can be traced to banking empires, titanic multinational companies, government intelligence agencies, elite families, and of course the lovely military industrial complex. But none dare call it a conspiracy. If you did call it a conspiracy the Department of Homeland Security has already moved its Queen to a checkmate attacking position on the World Trestle Board, labeling anyone who receives their news from alternative sources as rightwing extremists. According to the DHS, all media outlets that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets are a threat to the state. So unless you&39;re Robert Murdoch and watch Fox news as your major news feed, you are a terrorist? If you are capable of critical thinking and dissect the information feed, you are a terrorist?

Most people would be aware that a human implantable microchip exists, namely the IBM seed funded Verichip. But let's gloss over that for a minute and let's talk about brain scanning. Let's use the new speak term for it: fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Functional! Ah don't you feel better now ? It's functional! It's not MRI only. fMRI images are used to determined which parts of the brain "light up" when a function such as speech or recognition is performed? fMRI has marched forward with the majority of the public unaware that it is being used in Neuromarketing, a new field of marketing that studies consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective response to marketing stimuli. Data for this Neuromarketing is harvested from technologies such as fMRI to measure changes in activity in parts of the brain, and electroencephalography (EEG) to measure activity in specific regional spectra of the brain response.

Once again the argument that fMRI and electroencephalography (EEG) is not a threat to society is based on the 'benefit approach.' Companies will have to spend less on marketing and advertisements if they can read my mind. Better products will be released, the world will have less waste and cutting edge advances will be made due to less wasteful spending in getting a product to market. World peace will be embraced, Alzheimer's cured, hunger worldwide will be eradicated, the honey bees population will begin increasing again and most importantly I will finally have a purple and yellow polka dot iPod.

Key to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is RFID and sensor technology that is being heavily researched and promoted once again by the infamous Nazi war criminals, IBM .When IBM Germany formed its philosophical and technologic alliance with Nazi Germany, census and registration took on a new mission. IBM Germany invented the racial census-listing not just religious affiliation, but bloodline going back generations. This was the Nazi data lust. Not just to count the Jews, but to identify them. This data collection then aided the extermination of the Jews and other non compliant races. IBM has never been brought to justice for these atrocities but rather stands tall today as the world's largest information company, promoting their vision of a controlled world, with their "Smarter Planet" mantra. Using their IBM Ubiquitous Computing Lab Sensor and Actuator Solutions/RFID Solution Center in South Korea as the test bed market. Advances in sensor technology, coupled with fMRI measurements of physiological states (heart-rate, respiratory rate, galvanic skin response) are being to learn why consumers make the decisions they do and what part of the brain is telling them to do it.

Sounds like mind reading doesn't it? No! No! No! Its not! According to Tom Mitchell from Carnegie Mellon University, "functional MRI scanning is not mind reading, it's thought identification." If you believe thought identification is not mind reading, I have London Bridge for sale on Ebay with no minimum bid. Of course it's mind reading and of course it will serve no benefit to you. The only benefit will will be for those who want to impose heavy shackles on your freedom and free will. How much more personal can it get than mapping and reading your mind?

Note that Tom Mitchell is fronting for a well-heeled university that received seed funding from the steel empire of Freemason, Andrew Carnegie. It's self evident that Tom Mitchell is a liar and twisting semantics to serve his master's goals but that's how this new world operates. These talking heads will sell out their fellow man for a piece of the devils pie but passionately lick the boots of the masters who bark the orders down the chain of command.

Can it get any more ridiculous and invasive than fMRI? Of course it can and of course it will as the Transhumanists have a lot to say on this matter. Transhumanism among many other things offers mortal man the promise of immortality, of superhuman and even magical abilities! Wow! We can all become an immortal Harry Potter! "Bring it on" says the mob. The term 'Transhumanism' was first coined by Aldous Huxley's brother, Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, the evolutionary biologist and First Director-General of UNESCO. If your levels of trust don't plummet after reading that, you have not researched eugenics, nor the Huxley family. The Father of Transhumanism a eugenicist? Huxley was not only a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society, but served as its Vice-President (1937-1944) and President (1959-1962). Eugenicists, of course, favour removing undesirable variants from the human gene pool. The modern day Transhumanism movement is a sugar coated arsenic pill delivering the same deadly dose of eugenics. People who ridicule our position still have to produce the evidence that the military industrial complex will produce 'brain chips' on mass for the people to 'outthink' their fellow man. The military-industrial complex will never, ever strengthen the general populace and to entertain that concept is nothing more than a Transhumanistic Renaissance-filled wet dream. Verichip, on the other hand, is manufactured by Raytheon, the fifth largest defense contractor and it's evident how Verichip has taken their product to market if you have viewed our short film Operation Lie and Deceive - Verichip Style. Trust is earned, as they say, and we let the body of evidence testify to Verichip's ethics and moral code.

Nick Bostrom a pioneer in the Transhumanism field, defines Transhumanism as "a loosely defined movement that has developed gradually over the past two decades. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and evaluating the opportunities for enhancing the human condition and the human organism opened up by the advancement of technology."

Transhumanists promote concepts such as scanning the human brain to upload it to the mainframe, which translates to duplicating and transferring your life history, your personality, your memory, your quirks and essentially what makes you you into a digital 'reality.' Apart from uploading your consciousness into the mainframe, the Transhumanists believes that people will want to upload themselves into non-biological humans. I for one will not be one of them.

How is it proposed that we scan the brain? Using nanobots, of course! They will be injected into your bloodstream and then travel to the brain, undertaking the scan and relaying the data back for the upload to occur. Which insurance company will underwrite the brain uploads? Which company will undertake the firewall code? Which company will rewrite the minds that are hacked? Will the humans bodies be housed in vats or exterminated after the upload? What company in the IT world will be trusted with the Verification and Validation of this enormous project? Most people are happy if they can run their Windows Vista programs without crashing, yet we are being told to trust the IT coders with something as serious as uploading of the human mind? Please, give me a break and go bid on my London Bridge listing on Ebay right now.

The Transhumanists never answer the tough questions, simply because they can't at this point in the timeline with their technology not being in place. Instead they focus on the sugar and spice, fluff and cloud approach, using predictive programming techniques to have their hive mind cyborg agenda embraced by the younger generation. Rest assured, if you are assimilated into the hive via upload it's to become a drone, not an individual who is unique, autonomous and separate from the collective. It is about control and total control. Most of the Transhumanists who are around today are living in fear they might not see the singularity being achieved so will most likely cryonically suspend themselves so as to be 'reborn' into the techno rapture of the Posthuman, H+ world. Even though the Transhumanists generally ridicule people who have a faith based religion, their belief system reeks of the same faith based constructs they snootily mock .Nick Bostrom has speculated that we are already living in a 'simulation' which sounds like another religious based construct to me, a belief in a 'coding architect' similar to the Matrix Movie. Others have postulated that if our world is simulated, then the "host world" is governed by a different set of physical laws. Hmmm sounds like another leap of faith to me, yet I'm the crazy one according to them.

The Transhumanists state intelligent life could become extinct, with widening social inequalities and enormous harm being caused to society in the pursuit of Strong AI and the Singularity. Ian Warwick, the media poster child of I Cyborg, ranted and called for an urgent government debate on the microchipping issue and proposed UK ministers should consider implants for all children. He was reported to police and social services in the UK for fabricating half-truths and fearmongering parents to have their children michrochipped to prevent them being kidnapped. Perhaps Kevin Warwick needs to be sacked and a new actor put in place?

How will this H+ hive agenda be achieved? Hollywood of course will release a flurry of movies as evidenced by Bruce Willis' latest release, The Surrogates, encouraging people to plug their consciousness into a machine and live their life through a virtual 'surrogate.' The dumbed down mob will be mesmerized by the propaganda and the acceptance of this movement will become the new hip thing, with people twittering about their new augmented reality display glasses, getting excited about emoting over the internet using IPV6 through the use of sensors, discussing how their genome was fully sequenced by Google's 23andme.com, embracing ambient environments that set mood music as they drink a great drop of red wine and clutch feverishly to their bible, H+ magazine .

We on the other hand who are capable of critical thinking won't be programmed by this new code regurgitated by the system, clinging to what makes a human real. Our individuality, our uniqueness, our autonomy, our independent thought and our free will.

None of these unique attributes will exist in the hive mind so its time to make a choice: choose to be assimilated into the cyborg hive agenda or choose to live free as the unique individual you are.

In closing , Aldous Huxley famous quote springs to mind , "...anybody who has watched the behavior of rats with electrodes placed in different centers must come away from this experience with the most extraordinary doubts about what on earth is in store for us if this is got a hold of by a dictator."

The prosecution rests, your honour.

  - Greg 'No Verichip Inside' Nikolettos