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Mind Control


             " Mind control/ Brainwashing is the successful control of the thoughts and actions of another without his or her consent. Generally, the term implies that the victim has given up some basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attributes, and has been made to accept contrasting ideas. "Brainwashing" is often used loosely to refer to being persuaded by propaganda." (http://www.skepdic.com/mindcontr.html).
             "There are many misconceptions about mind control, some people consider mind control to include the efforts of parents to raise their children according to social, cultural, moral, and personal standards. Some think it is mind control to use behavior modification techniques to change one's own behavior, whether by self-discipline and autosuggestion or through workshops and clinics. Others think that advertising and sexual seduction are examples of mind control. No one would doubt that is would be clear case of mind control to be able to hypnotize of electronically program a person so that he or she would .
             carry out your commands with out them being aware that your controlling his or her behavior. An essential component of mind control is that is involves controlling another person, not just putting them out of control or doing things to them over which they have control." (http://www.skepdic.com/mindcontr.html).
             "Some of the more popular misconceptions of mind control originated in fiction, such as electronic devices, and brain implants, and hypnosis. We can do things that are predictable, such as loss of a specific memory or arousal of a specific desire. But we cannot do this in away which is non-intrusive or which would have the significance of being able to control a large array of thoughts, movements, or actions. It is certainly conceivable that someday we may be able to build a device which, if implanted in the brain, would allow us to control thoughts and actions by controlling specific chemical or electrical stimuli.


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