Experimentee-led Workshop Large Display "What is Mind Control?" -> "Mind control is when your boss thinks his ego is bigger than physical laws, and spews what an idiot he is via every known media channel for years." Experimentee: "I was mind controlled in a lot of ways. I also mind controlled other people, in a lot of ways. Usually both." Experimentee flips the display. A picture is shown of a glowing heart with an arrow pointing toward a brain. The brain is drawn with a smiling mouth on it. Next to this picture is a picture of a scalpel and a mobile phone, with an arrow pointing toward another brain. The second brain is drawn with a sad mouth on it. Below to the smiling brain is a collection of stick figures of different sizes holding hands. Below the sad brain is a gravestone in front of a nuclear explosion. Experimentee: "It can be deceptive that mind control and caring nurturing hugs are both _influence_. Caring influence is different from control-oriented influence. This can be _very_ hard to wrap your mind around. Very, very hard." A stick levitates to point to the smiling brain with the group of differently-sized stick figures holding hands. Experimentee: "I think part of it is what the people influencing you are imagining. When people influencing you are imagining you being well, and your community being well, or even you simply being more knowledgeable, then it is _good_. When they succeed, everybody is better off!" Experimentee: "Sometimes marketers even do this good thing, where they try to teach you information rather than putting chips in your head that make you buy their products forever." Experimentee: "Maybe that's who I'd like to be. Somebody who doesn't put a chip in anybody's head." The stick floats over to the sad brain with the tombstone and nuclear explosion and points at it. Experimentee: "So, what I've figured out, convincing the computer to take over Boss instead of more poor injured children, is that when somebody holds a goal about your _behavior_ rather than your _wellbeing_, this is bad. Very very bad." Experimentee: "Do not trust the mothers that put chijps in the heads of their children. It is not the mother doing this, or doing anything in that family. It is Boss." Experimentee: "I will remove your chips after the last lecture. We need to save the world." Experimentee fliips the page and a different visual is revealed. Experimentee: "You can use just about anything to mind control somebody! Why --" ------ Humans make decisions based on what they perceive as good or bad. This builds synaptic connections in their mind, using neural plasticity. Different kinds of connections, and different kinds of good or bad, have different timing and focus relations. The people who engage in mind control learn these patterns. They get a sense of them. A common kind of mind control is drug addiction. There are "crack houses" on the streets, where people who purchase drugs give them to others, who get addicted and become slaves. This is a profitable behavior that will destroy your life and the life of everyone you know. Another common kind of mind control is abuse. Many people grow up as children of parents who were abused, learn to take responsibility for the failings of their abusers, and believe various stories that are relatively false, such as the police being dangerous. A more recent kind of mind control happens over digital networks that use javascript. Facebook became notorious for engaging in studies on human behavior that involved manipulating their feeds. In situations like this where artificial intelligences are trained around user behavior, a symbiosis forms between the computer code and the humans, where both behave reliably in response to the other. I've posted about this before. It's called the attention economy, and it can be used for human trafficking. Less "intense" forms of mind control include normal marketing, which regularly sways economic sectors, and suggestion-oriented forms of influence used by hypnotists and con artists. Experienced or extensive mind control can guide an individual's entire life, setting their behaviors, beliefs, etc. It is used as part of human trafficking and other forms of slavery, to prevent slaves from leaving. This gives it economic strength. ---- Experimente: "-- you would never believe what my brother would do for that little purple dot, but I used it to get him to leave his research chamber and keep part of his brain before it was removed by a robot."