美軍研發“讀心術” 五年內打造心感軍團

The US Army is dedicating millions of research dollars into discovering building helmets to allow soldiers to telepathically communicate with one another on the battlefield.

The technology, which seems like something out of a science fiction novel, would use electrodes to pick up code words that soldiers were thinking.

Those codewords would then be transmitted back to a computer where the soldier's position and message- telling, for instance, that it is safe to progress towards a target- which would be transmitted to their peers in the field.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was established in 1958 and was dedicated to expanding the Department of Defense' technology usage, some of which included state-of-the-art, and top secret, research into the mind.

Based largely out of University of California-Irvine, in conjunction with labs in Philadelphia and Maryland, scientists are trying to improve so-called 'synthetic telepathy' so that it could be used in a battlefield.

At this point, they have set their sights on 2017 as the year when their plan may turn into silent action.

So far, 45 percent of the commands that are transmitted from one volunteer to another- like 'call in helicopter' or 'enemy ahead'- are correct. That statistic is expected to improve.

According to a soldier quoted in Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper, many of those people who will be the ones utilizing the technology are on board.

Others, including civil rights activists, take the opposite view, bringing up concerns about a possible infringement on civil liberties if the technology were to be misused.美軍正投入數百萬美元研究經費，研製“讀心頭盔”，使士兵在戰場上可以通過心靈感應進行交流。

這種技術看似源自科幻小說，將使用電極來收集士兵思考時的腦電波代碼。

隨後這些代碼被傳輸回計算機，計算機會將士兵的位置和信息傳送給戰場上的其他士兵，比如，朝某個目標行進是安全的等指令。

美國國防科研尖端項目署於1958年成立，致力於推廣國防部的技術應用，其中包括最新水平的、最機密的“讀心術”。

這項研究工作主要由美國加州大學歐文分校負責，費城和馬里蘭州的一些實驗室也參與其中。科學家試圖改進所謂的“綜合讀心術”，這樣就能應用在戰場了。

目前，他們的目標是在2017年實現這一計劃。

目前，從一個受試者傳遞給另一個受試者的指令中，有45%是正確的，比如“召集直升機”或者“前方有敵人”等等。這一正確率還有待提高。

美軍報紙《星條旗報》援引一位士兵的話說，應用這一技術的人很多會是飛行員。

而其他人，包括一些民權活動人士，卻持相反的觀點。他們擔心如果這一技術被濫用，可能侵犯到公民自由。