“If I only had a brain” or “Clango’s Cousin”
stevencloud
The Future.
Cananopie: this wired article you linked a while back is crazy.
Steven Cloud: yeah totally
Cananopie: And I say probably a bad idea
Steven Cloud: creeps me out
Cananopie: right - like the article basically says “Yea, trying to control people through drugs and electricity - old fuckin news baby - we’ve got the way - we’re controlling them with light, and it’s like 10 years down the road baby”
Steven Cloud: they try to act like it’s for people with injuries, but they’ll militarize it straight away. try to say it prevents PTSD. then we’ll finally have remorseless killing machines
Cananopie: or reprogram misbehavior in criminals
Steven Cloud: right. “criminals”
Cananopie: and then to potential criminals
Steven Cloud: yup. then simple deviants
Cananopie: and then mandatory at birth
Steven Cloud: prenatal dude. prenatal.
Cananopie: right - fucked.
Steven Cloud: sigh.
Cananopie: the technology will most likely be lost when the world collapses before then though
Steven Cloud: silver lining!
Cananopie: thats it.
The mouse stopped. Sniffed. Stood up on its hind legs and looked directly at the students as if to ask, “Why the hell did I just do that?” And the students whooped and cheered like this was the most important thing they’d ever seen. Because it was the most important thing they’d ever seen. They’d shown that a beam of light could control brain activity with great precision.
Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension
Take the peculiar case of an individual known as BW. As BW drove his car one day, the trees and buildings by the road began to speed by, as if he were driving at 300 kilometres per hour. BW eased up on the accelerator, but the cityscape continued to whizz by. Unable to cope with the speed of the world around him, BW stopped his car by the roadside.
While BW perceived the world as having accelerated, in reality what had happened was that BW had slowed down. He walked and talked in slow motion: when his doctor asked him to count 60 seconds in his head, he took 280 seconds to do it. It turned out that he had a tumour in his brain’s frontal cortex.
Via New Scientist
“Your brain operates on the edge of chaos.”
— David Robson (via New Scientist)
