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On Jul 26, 7:54 am, gloopencrotum <gloopencro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> how does one build a mind control satelite please?
>
> thanks.

Unlikely this will ever happen. At least not in the next 50 years.

The brain is too poor of a conductor to process any electromagnetic or
radio-frequency signals -- most "electric" signals in the brain are
really electrochemical, not purely-electric and certainly not
electromagnetic. Mostly the brain uses proteins to transmit, receive,
record, playback, store, and process signals. There is a long list of
what determines those signals. This includes - but is clearly not
limited to -- the types of proteins, the amounts of proteins, the rate
at which the proteins move, whether they move at all, rate at which
proteins are produced, which amino acids make up a protein, how many
structures the protein has, whether the protein is denatured [and if
so, to what extent] and many other variables regarding proteins. Most
CNS signals are based on proteins, though many sci-fi thrillers tend
to spread the myth that the brain is either purely-electric or
electromagnetic.

The brain -- being a biological entity -- is a lot more chemical than
electric. The electric part is what can be seen most easily. However,
the chemical reactions are a lot more significant to the brain, than
the electricity.

Many neurotransmitters are proteins.

During tactile stimulation, the neurotransmitters generated by touch
receptors do not enter the bloodstream [as one poster asked about*].
The touch receptor generates neurotransmitters, these
neurotransmitters stimulate sensory neurons they are attached to.
These stimulated sensory neurons release neurotransmitters that
stimulate more sensory neurons along the pathway to the CNS. It's both
chemical and electrical. But mostly chemical. This is how the signals
get from the source [in this case, a touch receptor] to the
destination [the CNS].

* "Mov Edags" wrote in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/2c075e5cbd5ba7e3
:

"If the pain receptors in your skin have to get busy and synthesize a
chemical to be transported to the brain by the bloodstream, you are
going to suffer some bad burns, as the blood doesn't reach the brain
all that quickly. "

I then explained to him/her how neurochemical transmission does not
involve the bloodstream. Its nerve-to-nerve, not nerve-to-blood-to-
nerve.


HTH,

Radium