Peaceful Protest in Tokyo, Japam Monday, May 5, 2014 Meeting Time: 13:30 Starting Time: 14:00 (time may be changed) Meeting Place: North plaza of Miyashita park, Shibuya, Tokyo Route; From Shibuya to Harajuku (we have pre-examined the route) More detailed information of the protest can be also found on below URL.(Japanese only) http://acpnihon.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-90.html
“Slavery has developed a new face, and bondage has transcended the physical to psychical and mental and is becoming neurobiological, through hi-tech expansion right in to the human brain with microchips.” 「奴隷は新しい様相を発達させた。束縛は肉体以外に精神と心にまで及び、神経生物学的な領域に進出している、人間の脳に直にマイクロチップを埋め込むハイテクの進化を通じて。」
For the hundreds of millennia that man has roamed the earth, he has killed, enslaved and even eaten his fellow man. Groups of individuals have banded together and developed a higher degree of power from where they have been able to force themselves upon others and deny them human respect. Since the foundation of the organized society, different breeds of dictators have built their truths on law and order, enabling them to suppress their subjects’ demands and opinions. Insurgent individuals have been thrown in chains, put behind bars, locked up in cellars, declared mentally ill and confined to mental hospitals. 人間が地球を移動し始めてから数10 万年の間、人は仲間を殺し、奴隷化してきた。また、食べることさえあった。個人が集団化し、それまでよりも高いレベルの力を持ち始め、他人を従わせたり、人間としての尊重を否定するようになった。組織化された社会が確立さ れて以来、様々なタイプの専制者が法と秩序の下に自らの真理を築き、臣民の要求と意見を抑え込むのに利用した。個人の反乱者は鎖で繋がれ、檻に入れられ、穴蔵に閉じ込められて、精神的な病と宣告され、精神病院に閉じ込められた。
The old form of cannibalism, one man eating another, has lived on, in a more sophisticated guise, in the relationship between the state and individuals and groups within society whose lives the despots have stifled and devoured. Slavery has developed a new face, and to an increasing extent bondage has transcended the physical to psychical and mental and is becoming neuro-biological, through hi-tech expansion right into the human brain with microchips, along with state intentions and extensive projects into brain-computer technology. 古い形の共食い、すなわち人が人を食う行為は、専制君主がその息の根を止め貪り食らう国家と社会と集団の関係の中で、外観を高度なものに変えて生き延びている。奴隷は新たな様相を発達させた。これまで以上に束縛は肉体以外に精神と心にまで及び、人間の脳に 直にマイクロチップを埋め込むハイテク技術の進化を通じて、また国家の意図や脳内コンピュータ技術にまで至る大規模なプロジェクトと同調して、神経生物学的な分野の問題になりつつある。
Despite the unbelievably bloody history that has been written for mankind by emperors and other despots, those with insight into what is actually going on behind the bastions of power argue that we have already passed over the threshold to an even more inhuman era. The very well-known Japanese professor Yoneji Masuda, coined the term “the information society” in his book of the same title (1980) in which he addresses the dangers of modern communication technology and advanced computer applications by which it is possible to link up the human brain to computers over international distances. He warns us that if people fail to learn about these neurological communication systems, and gain influence over their application, a new kind of dictatorship threatens, and he adds, the quashing of human rights in a traditional dictatorship will pale in comparison to the injustice that will be suffered. He argues that the technology provides the state with the power to limit and control the citizens’ private lives and social activity. “It would be possible to violate freely personal integrity and to suppress man’s independent, social and political activity, making Orwell’s terrifying robotised state a reality.” All this concerns the ability to connect human cerebral functions to computers with the aid of microchips and radio-implants. Several official inquiries by Government select committees and other documents have noticed the same developments. The Swedish state report, SOU 1972-47 discussed the possibilities of the new technique, that it can both collect facts about a person and control his actions. It added the caution that with the extension of information techniques one could detect the shadow of a formidable police-state with a totally efficient and inhuman administration.
Right from the time when computers were first being made in the mid 1940s, research was being done with electrode implants in the human brain. The use of the technique was developed at a quite a rate and it soon became clear to those in the know that there was not just a medical research interest behind it all, but also a political agenda. In 1956, the American Psychological Association arranged a symposium on the consequences of the new technique. Two of the participants, Professor Carl R. Rogers and Professor B. F. Skinner, had their speeches published in the scientific journal Science in November of the same year. コンピュータが1940 年代の半ばに発明された、まさにその時から、人間の脳に電極を埋め込む研究が行われていた。この技術の利用は相当の勢いで進展し、医学研究にもたらされる利益以外に政治的な意図も隠されていることが、事情通の人々の間で明らかになるのも 時間はかからなかった。1956 年、米国心理学会はこの新しい技術の重要性に関するシンポジウムを開催した。カールR. ロジャーズ教授とB. F. スキナー教授は、同会議内で行った講演の内容を同年11 月発行の『Science』誌に掲載した。
Professor Skinner said that, “Science is steadily increasing our power to influence, change and mold – in a world, control – human behavior... Of all the dictatorships espoused by utopists, this is the most profound, and incipient dictators might well find in this utopia a guidebook of political practise.” His colleague, Carl R. Rogers, maintained that the development of behavioural sciences was growing, and along with it the capacity to predict and control behaviour. He also posed the question of just who was going to be controlled, by whom ant for what purposes.
“I believe we agree that the behavioral science are making and will continue to make increasingly rapid progress in the understanding of behavior, and that as a consequence the capacity to predict and control behavior is developing with equal rapidity. I believe we are in agreement that the tremendous potential power of a science which permits the prediction and control of behavior may be misused, and that the possibility of such misuse constitutes a serious threat...Who will be controlled? Who will exercise control? What type of control will be exercised? Most important of all, toward what end or what purpose, or in the pursuit of what value, will control be exercised?” 「行動科学は高度の理解を急速に高め、今後もその傾向が続くこと、またその結果、行動を予測しコントロールする能力も同様の速さで進化することが共通の認識であると信じている。行動の予測とコントロールを可能にする科学の計り知れない潜在能力が誤った使わ れかたをされる可能性があること、そのような誤用の可能性は重大な脅威につながることにも異論はないとみている。誰がコントロールされるのか? 誰がコントロールするか? どのような種類のコントロールが行われるのか? 最も重要なのは、何の結末に向けて、あるいは 何の目的で、どのような価値を追求してコントロールが行われるのか、ということだ。」
The term “cyber” was minted at Princeton University in the summer of 1947 by a group of scientists, and was to denote everything within control and communications technology, esp. concerned with interfacing the human brain, biological systems and computers. In 1948, Norbert Wiener published the first book which touched on the unimagined possibilities of computers and how the new technology had the potential to scrutinize the human psyche. The book was entitled Cybernetics, the term deriving from the Greek word for steersman. Cyber came to stand for scientific control and the book was published in the same year as Orwell’s 1984. Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician, and had participated in the development of the first computers. Some years later, he wrote a preface to the second edition of Cybernetics prior to publication, warning of the developments: “The role of information and the technique of measuring and transmitting information constitute a whole new discipline for the engineer, for the physiologist, and for the sociologist. The automaton which the first edition of this book barely forecast have come to their own, and the related social dangers against which I have warned, not only in this book, but also in its small companion, “The Human Use of Human Beings”, have risen well above the horizon.” The technique was to go under the name in Bio-medical Telemetry, Brain-Computer Interaction or mind control.
