Very interesting!! Last year, scientist Anna Salamon spoke at the Singularity Summit 2009 -- Shaping the Intelligence Explosion and basically frankly admitted to human mind control experimentation. This is a direct quote from her lecture. ("meat" = humans)



"Um, also, meat is a slow and messy business. We've got brain surgery and psychiatric drugs, but they're imprecise and when we can create or copy humans, the process takes 20 years and a lot of labor and it often produces unexpected results. But if we had digital access to a given mind we could potentially try and test changes to that mind in minutes. We could try many variations as evolution does but in minutes instead of decades and with more strategy. And we could figure out which variants were best at math, which variants were best at earning money in the economy by various money earning jobs, which variants were better at further software redesign. And then we could do the just add hardware thing copy those across the hardware base. Hand directed digital evolution."