Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation
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Re: Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation
#2A 30% increase is hardly "Matrix-like". It's neat, but don't you fuckers try this at home (you can) and shouldn't because you'll invent a new condition like permanent laughing or blindness when looking at cats. Anything could happen this is clearly well into "Who knows" territory.
Re: Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation
#3This isn't "instant learning" at all, but rather something more akin to a different movie, Pacific Rim, in which the two co-pilots of a giant robot enter a sort of mind meld.
This is really no less exciting, though, and no less sci-fi.
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#4I find this research quite hard to swallow.
It's an extraordinary claim that feeding some electromagnetic representation of the thought patterns of one person into a completely different (and perhaps differently wired) brain that isn't necessarily designed to interpret such electromagnetic signals, magically causes the second person to learn a task faster.
Given the poor repeatability of medical research and the subjectivity of "improvement" I find it just as likely that i) this is a statistical anomaly or ii) feeding random noise into a person's brain as a control causes them to perform more poorly than normal, or iii) stimulating a brain in any way causes an increase in "performance", or iv) something we didn't think of.
Extraordinary claims like this require extraordinary evidence. Of course if they were developing this for the military then maybe the standard is just not the same.
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#5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11139703
And people thought that title was over the top.
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#6Re: Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation
#7I find this research quite hard to swallow. It's an extraordinary claim that feeding some electromagnetic representation of the thought patterns of one person into a completely different (and perhaps differently wired) brain that isn't necessarily designed to interpret such electromagnetic signals, magically causes the second person to learn a task faster. Given the poor repeatability of medical research and the subj…
Did you read the paper or the title?
tDCS was what was used, which is simply a low current meant to modulate firing rates at the cortical layer. There is NO interpretation of thought patterns and conversion into some modulatory electric field.
I do agree there are a lot of issues with clinical based trials especially ones with less concrete physiological measures, but the evidence for tDCS is certainly slowly stacking on.
Re: Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation
#8I find this research quite hard to swallow. It's an extraordinary claim that feeding some electromagnetic representation of the thought patterns of one person into a completely different (and perhaps differently wired) brain that isn't necessarily designed to interpret such electromagnetic signals, magically causes the second person to learn a task faster. Given the poor repeatability of medical research and the subj…
Did you read the paper or the title? tDCS was what was used, which is simply a low current meant to modulate firing rates at the cortical layer. There is NO interpretation of thought patterns and conversion into some modulatory electric field. I do agree there are a lot of issues with clinical based trials especially ones with less concrete physiological measures, but the evidence for tDCS is certainly slowly stackin…
I did read the posted press article and know what transcranial direct current stimulation is.
I think you may not have an objection to what I wrote if I remove the words "thought patterns" and replace them with "brain activity" as used in the press release.
Nonetheless, even this I find implausible. Why should I use the "brain activity" of a commercial pilot and not a meditating monk? Surely any actual information about flying a plane is totally absent from any such transfer. I see no plausible mechanism here.
Re: Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you read the paper or the title? tDCS was what was used, which is simply a low current meant to modulate firing rates at the cortical layer. There is NO interpretation of thought patterns and conversion into some modulatory electric field. I do agree there are a lot of issues with clinical based trials especially ones with less concrete physiological measures, but the evidence for tDCS is certainly slowly stackin…
I did read the posted press article and know what transcranial direct current stimulation is. I think you may not have an objection to what I wrote if I remove the words "thought patterns" and replace them with "brain activity" as used in the press release. Nonetheless, even this I find implausible. Why should I use the "brain activity" of a commercial pilot and not a meditating monk? Surely any actual information ab…
I'm not sure why the press release says that, but that is not t"DC"S is, and you're right there would be no reason to do that for any transcranial electrical stimulation protocol.
But in the paper, it is pretty clear they do hd-tDCS. Spatially there may be an attempt to target more specifically areas that are activated during normal flight activity, but there is no attempt to "transfer activity" which has a huge temporal and amplitude implication.