# SUBNETS **Full Name:** Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies **Domain:** Neurotechnology / Closed-Loop Therapy / DARPA **Doc Type:** Program Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **SUBNETS** was a DARPA research program intended to advance precise neurotechnology for otherwise difficult neuropsychiatric illness. Its architecture combined recording across distributed neural systems, computational modeling and therapeutic stimulation in an implanted closed loop. ## Architectural Primitive The program makes a general cybernetic loop technically concrete: **record → model → identify relevant state → stimulate → measure response** DARPA described the objective as therapeutic and incorporated ethical, legal and social-implications expertise. SUBNETS is not evidence of governmental re-education. Its importance to the corpus is the existence of a closed-loop technical primitive whose constitutional meaning depends upon purpose, consent, clinical authority and control of the reference state. ## Westworld Interface [[wiki/Westworld S3E6 — The Model Beneath the Model|Decoherence]] fictionalizes the convergence of modeled mental state, generated experience and institutional intervention. [[wiki/Neuroadaptive Governance|Neuroadaptive Governance]] names the political boundary crossed when a governing objective rather than a patient's clinical goals determines the desired internal state. ## Source - [SUBNETS — DARPA](https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/systems-based-neurotechnology-for-emerging-therapies) ## See Also [[wiki/Closed-Loop Neuromodulation|Closed-Loop Neuromodulation]] · [[wiki/Predictive Psychiatry|Predictive Psychiatry]] · [[wiki/Neuroadaptive Governance|Neuroadaptive Governance]] · [[wiki/Ownership of Mind|Ownership of Mind]] · [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]]