These aren’t random connections at all. I do actually comprehend some of the challenges involved, here. I used to be deep into transhumanism and all that Ray Kurzweil bullshit. DARPA has been looking into ways to make wireless nanotech brain-computer interfaces for a while now. Some proposed ones are optogenetic and/or electromagnetic in nature:
The technology could boost functions of veterans with neural damage or PTSD—or allow a soldier to control swarms of AI-enabled drones with his or her mind.
singularityhub.com
There are many hypothetical mechanisms for achieving a wireless BCI without surgical implantation of electrodes (unlike Neuralink, which is more old-school). Take, for instance, the “Magneto”:
The way it’s supposed to work, iron is bound to TRPV channels and manipulating those iron atoms with magnetic fields alters the calcium ion channel activity. In neurons, presumably, this calcium influx would modulate their spiking thresholds.
Supposedly, follow-up studies failed to replicate it, however:
The new work calls into question the idea that neurons can be genetically engineered to fire in response to magnetic fields, a setback for the budding technique.
www.the-scientist.com
Pretty much everything involving COVID-19’s pathophysiology is rooted in disordered calcium signaling in cells. SARS-CoV-2’s viroporins can act as calcium channels, and coronaviruses in general need calcium for their life cycles. Bradykinin also up-regulates calcium signaling in cells through its action on bradykinin receptors, which are membrane-bound GPCRs.
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See where it says eNOS is anti-oxidative stress? This is true, up to a point. Nitric oxide produced by nitric oxide synthase does scavenge superoxide, but when it does, the reaction produces peroxynitrite. Peroxynitrite not only injures and stresses mitochondria and causes fatigue, it also has another nasty trick. Just like phenylalanine hydroxylase, nitric oxide synthase needs tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) as a catalyst. Peroxynitrite attacks this essential cofactor, destroying it. This causes nitric oxide synthase to become uncoupled, spewing out more superoxide instead. This means that anything that activates NOS goes from being antioxidant to pro-oxidant if that NOS is uncoupled, including bradykinin. Look up superoxide and the “kindling radical”/“bonfire hypothesis” effects, as well as “NO/ONOO- disease”. These things are implicated in chronic fatigue syndrome, which, incidentally, COVID-19 supposedly causes as one of its long-term sequelae.
Unregulated calcium influx into cells can trigger basically all of the symptoms of COVID-19, even without the presence of a virus. Dr. Martin L. Pall’s work has suggested that EMF can open voltage-gated calcium channels and cause inflammation and oxidative stress. When calcium enters a cell in large amounts, it sets off cascades that cause endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondrial stress reactions. Significant quantities of reactive oxygen species are produced, and mitogen activated protein kinases and inhibitor of kappa B kinases trigger transcription factors like NF-kB and AP-1 that release shitloads of inflammatory cytokines such as Interleukin-6 and Tumor Necrosis Factor, along with chemokines that summon neutrophils that blast everything with lethal quantities of hydrogen peroxide and hypochlorous acid. All of this can happen, in theory, with no virus at all, just by forcing tons of calcium into cells. The net effect would be the same as COVID. Neutrophilia, sepsis, pneumonia, ARDS, et cetera. COVID-19 patients have noticeable hypocalcemia. Where did the calcium go, if it’s no longer in their blood?
In short, the EMF death ray/mind control hypotheses are actually not as crazy as they sound, and there are potential physiological mechanisms that account for it. If that were the case, though, you’d think that radar technicians and guys exposed to the most intense EMF in their jobs would have noticeable health consequences from it.
DARPA wants implanted BCIs because they think American soldiers are going to be left behind without them. In the future, BCIs may allow for some degree of “hive-minding” or shared awareness, like the SOP system from Metal Gear Solid 4. A BCI is just one step removed from a brain-to-brain interface, and nobody has any idea what those would be like in practice. If you melded two people’s minds like the Drift from Pacific Rim, would they experience being one person, or two? It raises fundamental philosophical questions about identity and consciousness that science is ill-equipped to explain. Even pumping intel data straight from a drone into a soldier’s head could provide an incredible advantage on the modern battlefield, where accurate knowledge of the opponent’s location and movements is paramount.
This is not science fiction. They are doing this shit in laboratories right now, and think tanks are funding it to the tune of millions of dollars.
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