Phisycal Control Of The Mind

Physical Control of the Mind:
Toward a Psychocivilized Society, 1969

By Jose M. Delgado

Part I Mental Evolution
Chapter One: Natural Fate Versus Human Control: The Process of Ecological Liberation and Domination

Part II The Brain and Mind as Functional Entities
Chapter Seven: Sensory Dependence of the Adult Mind Chapter Eight: Working Hypothesis for the Experimental Study of the MindChapter Nine: Historical Evolution of Physical Control of the Brain

Part III Experimental Control of Brain Functions in Behaving Subjects
Chapter Ten: Physicochemical Bases of Behavioral Activity Chapter Eleven: Methodology for Direct Communication with the Brain

Chapter Twelve: Electrical Stimulation of the Brain (ESB) Chapter Thirteen: Motor Responses Chapter Fourteen: Hell and HeavenWithin the Brain: The Systems for Punishment and Reward Chapter Fifteen: Hallucinations, Recollections, and Illusions in Man Chapter Sixteen: Inhibitory Effects in Animals and Man

Part IV Evaluation of Electrical Control of the Brain
Chapter Seventeen: Brain Stimulation Triggers Physiological Mechanisms Chapter Eighteen: Electrical Activation of the "Will" Chapter Nineteen: Characteristics andLimitations of Brain Control Chapter Twenty: Medical Applications Chapter Twenty-One: Ethical Considerations

Bibliography About the Author

Part I Mental Evolution
Chapter 1 Natural Fate Versus Human Control: The Process of Ecological Liberation and Domination

Manifestations of life depend on a continuous interplay of natural forces. Worms and elephants, mosquitoes and eagles, planktonand whales display a variety of activities on the land, in the air, and in the sea with a purpose-or lack of it-which escapes human understanding, obeying sets of laws which antedate the appearance of human intelligence. In the animal kingdom, existence of the genetic code represents a biological determination of anatomical and functional characteristics in the newborn. The growth and development oforganisms after birth proceed according to a natural fate imposed by the correlations between individual structure and environmental circumstances. The fact that about 300 million years ago all the world's creatures lived in the sea did not depend on their own volition but on biological evolution and ecological factors. The appearance of dinosaurs i8o million years ago in the Triassic period,their supremacy on earth, and their peak in power 30 million years later were determined not by the will of these animal&, which had disproportionately small brains and were probably rather stupid, but by a propitious warm and sticky climate which provided a soft slosh of water everywhere and land covered with a tangle of greenery, juicy palms, and huge fernlike trees extending almost to the NorthPole, The catastrophic end of the age of gigantic reptiles was simply the result of their inability to adapt themselves to a change in weather and lack of food. At the beginning of the Cenozoic era 70 million years ago, the air was drier and cooler than before. High plains emerged from shallow seas and ponds, and hard- wood forests towered in place of ferns and palms. This changing ecology wasunsuitable for dinosaurs and because they lacked the intelligence to understand their situation, to improve their food supply, or to modify their diet, natural fate forced these giants into extinction, and in their place small, warm-blooded, furry mammals slowly grew in size and number. The appearance of man approximately one million years ago meant only the flourishing of one more kind of animal whichshared with the others most biological laws and a complete dependence on natural forces. Men, like elephants and frogs, possessed lungs, bones, and brains; pumping of blood by the heart and other physiological phenomena were - and still are - very similar in all mammals, and proceeded according to pre-established mechanisms beyond awareness or voluntary control. Personal destiny was determined...