- A new pre-print on bioRxiv reports that low-intensity transcranial ultrasound can selectively bias eye-saccade decisions in non-human primates, pointing toward a non-invasive route to modulate human decision-making circuits.  
- Participants debated the legal boundaries of U.S. “freedom of religion,” citing the 1982 Supreme Court case U.S. v. Lee (455 U.S. 252) and the carve-outs that allow self-employed Amish—but not Amish employers—to opt out of Social Security taxes, while Catholic employers have received exemptions from contraceptive insurance mandates.  
- One participant proposed a speculative model in which extra-ocular musculature helps “focus” cerebral blood flow, suggesting that ultrasound entrainment of eye movements may indirectly steer cognitive dynamics via proprioceptive feedback loops.  
- The conversation extended this idea to ask whether congenitally blind individuals, lacking vision-driven eye-movement patterns, would show altered susceptibility to such ultrasound-based cognitive modulation.  
- kanzure quoted Senator Ted Kennedy’s 1975 criticism of the Asilomar recombinant-DNA conference—scientists “making public policy… in private”—and linked a 2016 MIT Technology Review article in which the U.S. Director of National Intelligence labels gene editing a potential weapon-of-mass-destruction threat.