<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899429/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899429/</a><p><i>> The personal papers of the neurophysiologist John C. Lilly at Stanford University hold a classified paper he wrote in the late 1950s on the behavioural modification and control of ‘human agents’ ... Lilly accepted a position as head of the Section of Cortical Integration at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. His appointment was based on an ambitious ‘Proposal for a Research Program on the Relations Between the Activities of the Brain, Body and Mind’. Combining communications theory, neurophysiology, and psychoanalysis, his aim was to use new brain-mapping techniques to physically locate and manipulate behavioural correlates in the brains of monkeys, cats, humans, and later dolphins.</i>
The SSE sounds kind of like Land's notion of techno-capitalism being an AI assembling itself from the future (which was always somewhat pharmaceutically inspired).