I'm freaking out
Are we sure this isn't just smoke and mirrors played on the brain? We know most of the time dilation effect in dreams comes from the fact that dreams skip everything to the important parts. We also know the brain can "rewind" itself to fill small gaps via extrapolation ( en.wikipedia.org
Chances are, unless these people can actually answer for the things they managed to do in those months, chances are the spooky acids are just rewiring their brains into believing they lived those months after the fact, rather than "overclocking" their brains and simulating the simplified experiences at accelerated speed. Either that, or their brains have been rewired so they identify some random neural pathways, or actually loop back into their memories, as lived experiences, rather than remixes of their own memories or random noise, which would be pretty cool.
I'm seconding this question, I'd like to know too.
That's a good point. I don't know how much research has been done on whether drug induced time perception distortion is any different from everyday Chronostasis and stuff I'd guess it's not a lot whole lot since psychedelics are generally still frowned upon no matter how useful they may be in helping to build a more accurate map of the brain. Even if everyone in the world unanimously decided tomorrow that psychedelic research is a-ok, you can't do anything about nearly a century of stigma's squandered potential.
It seems to me that the biggest hurdle for any prospective mind interface technology would simply be that we don't know enough of the brain's intricacies to really do anything useful with it yet. Put aside how obviously bad of an idea it would be to have a CPU connected to any part of your brain, and how impractical and potentially dangerous it would be to get invasive wire implant surgery on your brain.
Put all that stuff aside and ask "Do we even know how the visual cortex needs to be stimulated to produce any coherent image? If you could manage to produce some kind of "GUI" overlay, how would you even begin to go about the task of implementing half-transparency (you'd probably want that for obvious reasons)?"
Even if the answer to any of these questions is close to yes, you basically have to ask them all over again for each function of the brain you want to interface with. Wanna be able to listen to music in your head? Well that's a whole shit ton more research that needs to be done in one specific subset of neurology. Furthermore, once you have a perfect map of one part of the brain, you've still gotta do the field tests to make sure the neural interface is actually doing what it's supposed to. I mean essentially you'd have to poke and prod at somebody's brain in an experimental fashion, right? I'm not sure if that falls within the ethical constrains imposed on science.
Going even further, the idea of stimulating your brain to create a completely indistinguishable illusion of reality would probably be so difficult it can be classified as science fiction. And that's without even getting into the tangent of dilating time to "live forever". People seem to enjoy parroting the idea that "your entire concept of reality is just what your brain tells you, so you could theoretically trick your brain into interpreting any artificial stimulus as completely real". That's true, but it would require an almost unfathomable understanding of the brain. I don't think it's unreasonable to say it could be centuries before we have truly virtual reality, that is, a neural interface overriding every one of your senses with a fake version.
sorry that got long winded
Nerves are incredibly small, hard to interface with, and die when handled too roughly or on contact with most of the stuff you'd use to detect whether they're trying to carry signal to a hand/foot that isn't there anymore. That's the simple answer. The in-depth answer is awaiting everyone at the end of a doctorate, wherein they throw a big party and tell you that you were born too early to live the life you saw in Johnny Mnemonic or the Matrix or any of Keanu Reeves' movies, aside from Bill And Ted's Bogus Adventure.
If this happens, we'll be one step closer to mech arenas and hooking a harddrive to your brain to help upgrade your memory, as well as learning by sticking a USB stick into your neck-port.
This would be hugely positive news if we lived in non-clown world.
Not that it's going to be actually viable any time soon.
How's the weather in Tel Aviv, Moishe?
We already have viruses for brains you dumb niggers. They're called memes.
AFAIK, modern BCI is one-way only yet. Reading from brain, translating to computer. Which is enough for figuring out wrongthink, reading visuals directly from retina and formalize individual's intentions and thoughts, also check his mental health.
I'll be deleting this person's post history if this polfaggotry doesn't stop.
Keep polfaggotry and autism in Zig Forums
The CIA already does this.
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godspeed