Taming the Chatroom Bob: The role of brain-computer interfaces that manipulate prefrontal cortex optimization for increasing participation of victims of traumatic sex and other abuse online

摘要

Chatroom Bobs, which derived from the concept of 'Uncle Bob' being a name for a less than responsible family man, are characterised by being online community users driven by seeking out satisfaction for their 'urgeances' (or biological drives). Some of these are akin to the 'office loser' who tries to impress others but is despised, others have more ulterior motives for sexual satisfaction. This paper presents an intervention - called MEDIAT - which uses TAGTeach to retrain people who are sexually damaged by society and demonstrate impairment in how they interact with others. The paper presents an equation for measuring such 'social orientation impairment' as a reflection of its relationship to serotonergic and dopaminergic activity in the prefrontal cortex as a result of differences in 'Neuro-response plasticity'. The paper concludes that by using MEDIAT to reverse dopaminergic-serotonergic asynchronicity caused by traumatic experience can lead to increased constructive participation in online and other environments.