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I don't think so. There are certain traits that are better off learned by parents and a child's environment, rather than being "programmed in". Certainly, things like arithmetic and language comprehension would be beneficial, but the learning process would be distorted, and biased towards a certain way of thinking....

Adding information does not equal programming the person.

@silvermk2

the information you receive affects how you form your opinions though. Provide and suppress information systematically and you can pretty much control how a person thinks

*goes back to watching tv*

Testify wrote:
You can't hypnotise information into someone's brain.

Yes you can. Hypnotic suggestion works. It's not magic.

Actual skills and knowledge require time and effort to achieve.

And you're arguing that it would be impossible to to create a process that could trick the brain into believing that this happened? What is that based upon?

Mind-altering drugs (of which I have some experience) affect perception, not intellect.

They appear to have affected yours, as you don't seem to have a clue what I'm talking about, and it's not particularly complicated. It's a ridiculously simple set of premises: There are already working methods of changing the way that stimuli are interpreted by the brain. There are already working methods of creating 'false' stimuli. There are already ways of creating 'false' memories. Those memories are 'information'. They are stored.

It follows that these processes could possibly be expanded to include brain 'programming', because these premises show that it is possible to artificially alter the ways that infomation is input into the brain. I'm not saying it's imminent, or even likely within the next couple of decades, just that it seems like it should be a possibility.

The rest of your post was you misunderstanding what I was saying.

Bakerofish wrote:@silvermk2

the information you receive affects how you form your opinions though. Provide and suppress information systematically and you can pretty much control how a person thinks

*goes back to watching tv*

In exactly the same way as teaching selectively imparts information and ways of thinking. Simply downloading informatin, either through some kind of mind link or through teaching is still not the same as programming behaviour etc.