While Professor Donald Hebb was busy exploring the mechanisms of neural networks and the...
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While Professor Donald Hebb was busy exploring the mechanisms of neural networks and the effects of isolation upon the mind, in part for the C.I.A., his post-doctoral students James Olds and Peter Milner were stumbling upon their own findings, which would prove to be pivotal. Although it had been accidental at first, Olds and Milner had discovered the so-called pleasure center of the brain through an extension of the technique Wilder Penfield first developed
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While Professor Donald Hebb was busy exploring the mechanisms
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of neural networks and the effects of isolation upon the mind, in part for the C.I.A.,
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his post-doctoral students James Olds and Peter Milner were stumbling upon their own findings,
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which would prove to be pivotal. Although it had been accidental at first,
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Olds and Milner had discovered the so-called pleasure center of the brain
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through an extension of the technique Wilder Penfield first developed.
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"The Minds of Men" is a 3+ year investigation into the experimentation, art, and practice of social engineering and mind control during the Cold War - a mind-bending journey into the past that gives startling insight into the worl...
