Machine zaps your brain & makes you a genius

[scratch]

- temporarily.

Here's a link to the story at the New York Times (may require free registration) -

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22SAVANT.html?pagewanted=all&position=

Pretty amazing stuff, but I'm not sure that I'd want to risk doing it very much. They say that it simulates the neurological impairment that causes autism.

What do you think? Would you do it? :shrug:

[Tourmeister]

Doh... I hate having to register for a one time thing like that ;-) It'd be different if they did not ask so many questions. If I could just give a name and password, maybe then. I'm already drowning in spam mail, spam faxes, spam email, etc,... It is driving me nuts! :headbang:

Marketing is a tool of the DEVIL!!! It seeks you out in any place of peace and solitude and seeks to twist your mind. If the marketers had their way, they'd even try to plug into your dreams at night to sway you to their view of the world... Dread the day when we become the Borg :brainsnap

Oh... I may have gone off on a slight tangent there :oops:

Hmmm.... So a major increase in HP for the cost of a little wear and tear on the piston rings and inner parts? Maybe people with terminal illnesses could volunteer for this treatment and then share their newfound insights with us before they go? I don't think I would want to risk it.

Of course, sticking with the Star Trek theme... Remember the episode where Reg Barkley got zapped by an alien probe that made him a super duper genious extrordinaire? He went to the holodeck and wired himself into the ship's computer and took over everything. Then zinged them all off across the galaxy to meet the giant floating head. After it was all over he reverted back to same ol slightly genious Barkley and was a bit depressed because he could remember understanding so much, but now he could not understand it and it was like a vague shadow of his former knowledge. I don't know if I could live with the reversions each time. I could see it being real easy to get addicted to this kind of brain zapping.

Oh yeah, have you seen Forbidden Planet? Morbeus has discovered the long dead Alien's IQ boosting machine. The ship's XO fried himself by trying to crank up his IQ. That is a cool show! Gotta get it on DVD some day.

[buck000]

Wasn't there a documentary on this way back in the late 60s?

http://shopping.yahoo.com/video/images/muze/dvd/sm/49/204149.jpg

:)

[scratch]

Wasn't there a documentary on this way back in the late 60s?

:)

Ha, ha! That's Kurt Russell! :mrgreen:

I've always had a hard time accepting him in his "tough guy" roles after doing those Disney flicks when he was a kid.

But I digress. :wink:

[scratch]

...Oh yeah, have you seen Forbidden Planet? Morbeus has discovered the long dead Alien's IQ boosting machine. The ship's XO fried himself by trying to crank up his IQ. That is a cool show! Gotta get it on DVD some day.

Forbidden Planet is a classic! One of the very best sci-fi movies ever, IMHO. It had what has to be one of the scariest monsters ever conceived. And it's also just plain fun - in a cheesy, 50's way! 8)
___________________

Extra HP at the cost of a little wear & tear - that sounds like a good analogy. The researchers claim the process does no harm, but then they didn't say that they've done any long-term studies on the health effects, have they? :shock:

Still, it's a fascinating revelation on the inner workings of the brain; their work seems to indicate that we all have genius-level abilities locked away inside our minds. Maybe someday they'll come up with a safe way to allow everyone to tap into that potential.

[VFRinAustin]

Oh yeah, have you seen Forbidden Planet? Morbeus has discovered the long dead Alien's IQ boosting machine. The ship's XO fried himself by trying to crank up his IQ. That is a cool show! Gotta get it on DVD some day.

Great movie. Robbie the Robot, Leslie Neilsen as the straight laced good guy captain. Who would have ever thought he would go on to do Police Squad :lol: