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Maark, on 26 February 2016 - 08:12 AM, said:
EmperorMagus, on 26 February 2016 - 07:26 AM, said:
TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.
TVSS
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.
TVSS
Well and good, Jensen, but there's trouble over at one of our factories and I need you to go check it out.
I admit I have no idea what you're referencing, but sure?
Gredfallan Ale, on 27 February 2016 - 10:41 AM, said:
EmperorMagus, on 26 February 2016 - 07:26 AM, said:
TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.
TVSS
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.
TVSS
Yeah, it's amazing, it truly is.
It makes you wonder where the possibilities end and what we are willing to do.
For now, we're mainly tweaking the input side of things; we are basically hacking the sensory system to do something it doesn't normally do, in this case routing visual information through the tactile system by using a device that "converts" visual information to tactile information. However, on the perceptual side of things, we're stuck with what we've got for now. I wonder if we'll ever be able to extend our cognitive system by adding a totally new perceptual modality, one that is as intertwined and distributed as the others, but is not just a slight modification of a current perceptual system. I can't image what it would be like to experience such a modality, but how do you explain "vision" to someone who has never experienced it or how do you tell someone who's deaf what it's like to listen to Bach's inventions? What's it like to have a dominant perceptual modality for echolocation or magnetism?
Now, "perception" isn't just an isolated process in the brain, a separated box that you might connect or disconnect, but it's actually the result of a large distributed and intertwined network which you can arbitrarily extend to include almost the whole brain, so it won't be as easy as connecting a new modal box to a couple of "connectors" in the brain, but rather a modification that modifies a huge part of the current cognitive system. That means I can't really imagine how it would work, but, hey, I'm no genius and it's fun to philosophize about what it's like to be something you're not (like a bat
), even from a monistic perspective.I'm actually studying a subject called "Cognitive Systems" right now, and the amount of similar shit that is being done in this field is ridiculous. It's like real world Blindsight on steroids.
Google docs/slides is what's making me happy right now. Google services are becoming so much better than MS it's retarded they are free.
