In the 80’s I read this book called If We Could Keep A Severed Head Alive written by a patent attorney who also was an engineer. It was deemed improbable in the 80’s as animal experiments showed brains flatlined. Looking around today I see Replicants not severed heads of State.
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/10/21/the-human-brain-is-new-nato-battlefield
The brain will be the battlefield of the 21st century, NATO believes and has made a major strategic shift. Until now, the transatlantic organization defined five operational areas for its military activities, namely land, sea, air, space and cyberspace. But for the thinking heads of the alliance, the present and future conflicts will no longer be only “kinetic”, that is to say confined to movement and physical destruction, but will be located – and will be won – elsewhere.
According to Hervé Le Guyader, the “Five Brains Initiative” will be launched in 2024. Le Guyader is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Institute for Cognitive Science in Bordeaux and has studied “weapons of neuroscience”. The author concluded that “indeed, the human mind should be NATO’s closest area of operation”.
The goal of cognitive warfare is to make everyone a weapon. Based on this observation, François du Cluzel, a French officer who in 2013 participated in the creation of the NATO Innovation Hub (iHub), discussed at length his vision of the conflicts of tomorrow in a publication entitled “The cognitive war”.
https://youtu.be/StsfHQkikHA
https://youtu.be/Fgw6PYcrgg8
Aside from the potentially divisive nature of all media, the subject matter of his work is not to be discounted, imo.
Speed kills.