@[email protected] Ever seen the thought emporium video on neurons? It might be easier than you think, and we’ll be trying it next month. (not with a human, no)

@[email protected] you can; it’s called an EEG?

@[email protected] nobody can stop you from buying fancy medical equipment on ebay

@[email protected] You reminded me of a really good moment in a sci-fi novel I like called Diaspora.

The main characters in that are all running in digital simulations. At one point a character has an idea on the tip of their tongue, an epiphany that almost reaches them and then vanishes.

So, they look over the map of their own digital neurons, play it back to when the idea was just beyond their reach, and can look and see what concepts were being stimulated but didn’t have quite enough activation to trip over to a full conscious thought.

Knowing the ballpark their own subconscious was hinting at gets them the rest of the way there! The idea comes in a flash! Ah-ha! Plot revelation!

@[email protected] This has just made me remember something, a game called EXAPUNKS by Zacktronics, iirc that does happen at some point…

@[email protected] welcome to computational neuroscience (: … meet (noninvasive) (or fuck, give me invasive) neuromodulatipn

@[email protected] me with my leg and hip mostly disassembled on a table with three different oscilloscopes poked into them trying to track down why my leg hurts

@[email protected] Isn’t that basically an EEG? Only you don’t know what the bits mean exactly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography