"Allen L. Barker" <alb at datafilter.com> wrote in message news:<3E2E38F1.50BEA6FB at datafilter.com>...
> Terms Other Than Mind Control
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>> This article is a re-edited version of an earlier mailing list
> article. The subject is whether the term "mind control" does more
> harm than good, as far as activism to educate the public and expose
> the many abuses in that area. The nature of the crimes and abuses
> is not at issue. The focus here is word usage. This version was
> last revised on Jan. 22, 2003.
>> Connotational Baggage
>> One problem with the term "mind control" is the "kook" association.
> ...
>> Many of the microwave hearing articles deal with the issues of "what
> are the psychophysical correlates of the beam's physical parameters."
> Knowing this one can then technologically create the *physical* event,
> causing the corresponding *psychophysical* event in the person's
> "mind." That is, you can modulate a microwave beam with the right
> pulsed waveform so that if you "illuminate" a person with the beam he
> or she perceives as sound whatever signal has been modulated onto it
> -- including voice signals.
> ...
Allen, can you support this with evidence?
According to Guy, et al (Annals of the NY Academy of
Sciences, 1975, v. 247, 194 - 218, Discussion), it
is not possible to transmit voices.
I've studied this problem, and I have good theoretical
reasons for believing that voice (or music) direct
transmission should not be feasible. The only way
I would think might work would be by modulation of
pulses spaced in time by maybe 500 us or more -- it might
be possible to understand, but it would not seem to
be a voice. I think Morse code might be possible.
The underlying problem is that the wavelength of
microwaves known to produce "microwave hearing"
is many times too big to synthesize a cochlear
response corresponding to the sound of a voice.
I'd change this view, but only on the basis of
good evidence. Nothing is impossible, but
this kind of "control" does not seem possible.