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Stile

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Rare counting ability induced by temporarily switching off brain region This is an interesting article. My initial reaction was the math tests of the future will instead of banning calculators have to ban brain magnets. I could also think up the nightmare scenarios. Soldiers in exoskeletons with brain magnets blocking out fear or pain. Or rooms full of magnet wearing scientists poring over data and code. Or futuristic robots turning against us and using our brain computing power in some sort of Matrix-like prison computer chip with magnets blocking our personalities and...

Oh, let's face it. The real nightmare is from the picture in the article. Some undergrad is letting someone with a backwards baseball cap zap her brain for what is probably just beer money. Arrgh...
 
Like many scientific advancements throughout history since we first tamed fire, the knowledge can be used for good or ill.
 
Masquerouge said:
The opposite would be more interesting... finding a cure for autism.
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You want a cure for logic? :dubious:

(a bit oversimplified, but you get my drift. Why 'cure' it?)
 
I prefer more natural genius personally, Imagine being able to invent a summation forumala off the top of your head at the age of 8:-

It seems that Gauss' third grade teacher needed a break so she assigned the class the problem of totaling the sum of the first 100 integers thinking that this would occupy the students for most of the afternoon.

Gauss of course was able to tabulate the sum in a matter of seconds to the chagrin of his teacher. What Gauss needed to compute is:

Sum of 1,2..100= 100*101/2.

As regards the OP It's very interesting research, might even give us some insight into how mathematical genius works and why some autistics appear to lack understanding of the world around them but have the ability to work faster than a computer.
 
Soon cyberbrains will become a reality.
 
"The opposite would be more interesting... finding a cure for autism."

There's a new autism treatment out! It involves removing most of the heavy metals out of the body!
 
Sidhe: I was bored the other day and figured out that formula. I got thinking about it trying to figure out the total number of trait combinations in Civ 3, which is (7+6+5+4+3+2+1), or (7*8/2). Granted, it is less impressive as I am 23, but there you have it.
 
Stile said:
Rare counting ability induced by temporarily switching off brain region This is an interesting article. My initial reaction was the math tests of the future will instead of banning calculators have to ban brain magnets. I could also think up the nightmare scenarios. Soldiers in exoskeletons with brain magnets blocking out fear or pain. Or rooms full of magnet wearing scientists poring over data and code. Or futuristic robots turning against us and using our brain computing power in some sort of Matrix-like prison computer chip with magnets blocking our personalities and...

Oh, let's face it. The real nightmare is from the picture in the article. Some undergrad is letting someone with a backwards baseball cap zap her brain for what is probably just beer money. Arrgh...
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Sounds like a bogus study. How do I know that people didn't just become more adept at guessing with repeated tries? The idea that the brain can be influenced by a simple magnetic field from outside the skull sounds ludicrous. It would mean that people from higher latitudes had different abilities than those of lower latitudes, which doesn't happen. The only way I could see this proven is if they did an PET scan before the procedure, and immediately afterwards, and showed a change in brain activity in the region supposedly affected.
 
Stile said:
Oh, let's face it. The real nightmare is from the picture in the article. Some undergrad is letting someone with a backwards baseball cap zap her brain for what is probably just beer money. Arrgh...
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Sweet! Where do I apply? :goodjob:
 
Cheezy the Wiz said:
i really hate it when science takes a turn for the creating the unnaturally advantaged human, no matter what that means
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Sometimes, I just hate science. It's too...controlling, and can be destructive and exploitave of humans.
 
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