 IRL Addictive Brain Implants!, Because your momma ALWAYS told not to accept BTLs from strangers... |
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 Nov 12 2009, 01:09 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 186 Joined: 4-May 08 From: Brazil Member No.: 15,955  |
I read that. It scared me . A LOT.
http://io9.com/5402584/the-curious-case-of...r-brain-implant It's not really "Simsense" Based, but remberes the Wiredhead concept of Larry Niven's work... |
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Nov 12 2009, 04:12 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 67 Joined: 29-October 06 From: (Atlanta, GA. CAS) Member No.: 9,732 |
This kinda would be just like a BTL, without the simsense emotive track.
Makes you wonder how much worse the addiction could get with an emotive track and a "climax" at the end. |
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Nov 12 2009, 06:25 AM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 9,639 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
Imagine if somebody else had his thumb on the dial.
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Nov 12 2009, 10:20 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 5-November 09 Member No.: 17,846 |
The things people with a bit of tech in the brain. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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Nov 12 2009, 03:06 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,989 Joined: 28-July 09 From: Somewhere along the brazilian coast Member No.: 17,437 |
Lol. And I thought that Manara's "Click" was just fiction...
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Nov 12 2009, 03:20 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
hell, the same thing have been observed in lab mice, tho later studies shows that they got stimulated activity wrong, as the mammalian brain seems to wire curiosity with pleasure or something...
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Nov 13 2009, 09:29 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Nov 12 2009, 04:20 PM)  hell, the same thing have been observed in lab mice, tho later studies shows that they got stimulated activity wrong, as the mammalian brain seems to wire curiosity with pleasure or something... IIRC, it rewards curiosity (new experiences) with pleasure. Actually, the brain works mostly this way: it rewards you with drugs when you do something it wants you to do. |
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Nov 13 2009, 11:13 AM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 9,639 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
QUOTE (Blade @ Nov 13 2009, 04:29 AM) IIRC, it rewards curiosity (new experiences) with pleasure. Actually, the brain works mostly this way: it rewards you with drugs when you do something it wants you to do. If action A brings selective advantage, then those individuals who perform action A will over time live longer (or at least be more likely to live long enough to have offspring) than those who don't perform it, and thereby tend to procreate more and pass their predilection to perform action A on to more offspring. If one of those individuals happens to have a mutation that causes pleasure when action A is performed, then that individual will perform it more often... rewind and restart. As the original post shows, even good things can be overdone. If the individual performs action A to the exclusion of other actions necessary to survival, it loses its selective advantage. Nature kills losers. |
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Nov 13 2009, 03:36 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 3-November 09 Member No.: 17,836 |
Sign me up!
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