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Download. Have you seen the movie The Matrix? When I first saw it, I was in graduate school, working toward a Ph.D. in math. Like, whoa. (Thanks, Keanu.)
Anyway, part of that process is taking a series of three exams based on the material of six classes. They are called
Now consider the title of this article released one month ago on ScoopWhoop: You Will Soon Be Able To Download Information Directly To Your Brain, Matrix-Style!
Are you serious?
Yes. According to the article, scientists at HRL Laboratories in California used a simulator to feed information into a person’s brain. They attempted to transfer the skills of a professional airplane pilot to novice flyers.
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How? First they analyzed the brain activity
patterns from six commercial and military pilots. Then they put several
test subjects to sleep wearing electrode-embedded head caps. Next they zapped
these peoples’ brains with transcranial
direct current stimulation to transmit the brain patterns of the experts into the
novices. The novices then took lessons in a flight simulator.
The results? Subjects who received brain stimulation via electrode-embedded head
caps improved their piloting abilities and learnt the task 33 percent better
than a placebo group.
Again, whoa!
This breakthrough fits perfectly with Sylvia Ney's WIN, a short story about a world in which all knowledge is downloaded into our brains and people who "learn" are considered oddities. (Much like some view the Amish today.) That's all well and good until the mechanism for downloading gets a virus. Oops.
You can read this haunting tale in the upcoming anthology, Parallels: Felix Was Here, to be released on May 3. This anthology also has a website participating in the A to Z Challenge. To learn more about the ten tales and their authors, go here.
What knowledge would you like to download into your brain?
Gosh, what a question. I'd just love to know everything I know now, but at that age of 20. I don't need to be smarter, I need to be informed. LOL Love this, and WIN is a great story!
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I would love to download some languages into my brain. Being able to communicate with all my multilingual friends would be brilliant.
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Yeah. This has potential disaster written all over it! It sounds great though.
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That's cool! I'm with Natasha and would download some languages. And maybe some better math skills because I am horrible at math!
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Thanks! I will try cutting and pasting these.
DeleteThanks for the mention Tamara! I absolutely loved the Matrix - what a terrifyingly exciting idea it is to download information! Thanks too for sharing the article about the California study. I never would have been the guinea pig for a project like that - it's too easy for people to mess with my head when I'm NOT hooked up to a device ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat is really freaky. Hopefully unlike Sylvia's story, we don't grow to rely on it.
ReplyDeleteYou're right that's a perfect tie-in to Sylvia's story. Freaky.
ReplyDeleteWow, wouldn't that be the ultimate equalizer? If we all could put the same information in our brains, we'd be able to pick what we wanted to do in life, I guess. Anyone could be a doctor?
ReplyDeleteOoh, downloading directly to your brain? Not sure I like that. What if there's a corrupted file? ;-)
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Tamara.
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You've done a lot of research for your blogs!
ReplyDeleteOh,my, that would be great -- having information directly downloaded into my brain and actually being able to make sense of it and use it. More math would work for me, so I can help my son with his homework. :) Great post. Thank you. Loved The Matrix.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd like downloaded to my brain? The knowledge to understand how someone may react to something I say/do so I can prevent negative repercussions.
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Whoa is right! I would want to download languages and piano playing ability, and maybe some of Neo's kung fu moves as well :)
ReplyDeleteMatrix is one of my fave films. I never tire of watching it, like any good scifi movie. And downloading to our brains would be a great way to 'learn'. Sign me up.
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ReplyDeleteEver since seeing the Matrix and the download scene, I've wondered if its possible to "overload" the brain. Sure, you could download all the information you want, but could the brain max out on storage capacity or slow down, like a computer?
Good luck with the rest of the challenge.
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