The brain as peripheral

Neuroscience could mean soldiers controlling weapons with minds 
Neuroscience breakthroughs could be harnessed by military and law enforcers, says Royal Society report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/07/neuroscience-soldiers-control-weapons-mind

• A growing body of research suggests that passing weak electrical signals through the skull, using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), can improve people's performance in some tasks.
• One of the report's most striking scenarios involves the use of devices called brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) to connect people's brains directly to military technology, including drones and other weapons systems.
• The US military research organisation, Darpa, has already used EEG to help spot targets in satellite images that were missed by the person screening them. The EEG traces revealed that the brain sometimes noticed targets but failed to make them conscious thoughts. Staff used the EEG traces to select a group of images for closer inspection and improved their target detection threefold, the report notes.