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Let the Mindgames Begin
chienr writes "Like Pong, but instead of paddles, you use your brainwaves to control the ball over to the opponent's goal, that's Mindball! This apparatus was previously an experiment under the name Brainball, and is now commercially available - here's another link with video."
At last, a computer game for women.
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I call it "Beat the 503" How many Slashdot pages can you get through without hitting a 503 error?
Feel the power of the force, not quite force push or lightning, but getting there.
It seems to me, that the best way to win would be to just close your eyes and ignore the ball. Better yet, take a nap.
These are not the balls you are looking for...
Atari was going to put out a similar device for their 2600 way back when.
It's funny how in all of these futuristic shows we show people playing games and controlling cars with our minds. Now it's becoming a reality on a much quicker timescale than we imagined.
It's just like how the book 2001 predicted we'd have space travel, and land on the moon, then we did, way before 2001. It's nice when technology moves faster than fiction.
I are winner
Yeah sounds exciting to watch people sit there while a ball moves. I'd rather see it move for whoever can be the most intense that would be great.
So, in order to play you have to almost *not care* if you win or lose...
:)
This may have uses in anger management courses, but I can't see it popping up in bars and arcades any time soon.
They had something like this on TNG's episode "The Game", where Wesley and Ensign Robin Lefler are the only ones on board that have not been taken over by a game you control with your mind. I am sure if Wil Wheaton is reading this he will have an Ashley Judd comment ;-)
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
I thought the real mindgames were all the 503's Slashdot has been throwing as part of a guerilla marketing campaign for the Manchurian Candidate or something.
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Welcome this tournament of Cerebral Overlords.
Isn't EGG electrogastrography...having to do with measuring stomach/digestive tract activity?
Don't they mean the EEG, the electroencephalogram?
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Wake me up when they are playing with a bottle of Janx Spirit.
"Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit").
... I don't have the minimum system requirements...
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
"For those who are just too competitive to relax by playing - Mindball is a game where two players control a ball with their brainwaves and the one who's the most relaxed wins... The biosensor system registers the electrical activity and the player who is the most relaxed can make the ball roll over to his opponent's goal with his brainwaves."
Let's see, a player needs to be completely relaxed in order to win. Does that mean that people who are stoned/drunk/asleep offer the best competition?? That's a scary thought...
This tech is tailor made for the porn industry. Guaranteed profit, no ??? necessary.
Moo.
I think this would have been much more accessible and fun (possibility for many different game types) if it had been some type of small system that connected to a television instead of being a tabletop game.
They don't have a brain, you insensitive clod!
"Be the ball, be the ball....."
$19k for a simplistic, albeit technically interesting, game seems rather steep. Now if it made Tyra Banks come rolling to me...
That table looks like something from a pizza parlor circa 1985.
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Lot of other stuff on this:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58193,00
and this one which is funny..
Cheers
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
Seems like the ideal stoner party game.
Duuuude, I am soooo much more relaxed than you.
Talkin smack bitch? Watch my total relaxation crush your total relaxation.
Whoooooaaaaaa
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by putting naked women in the room with the players. Definitly be able to tell who is gay or not.
... it has really odd side effects. Its almost like psychokenesis.
Thinking about it gets me angry, and everytime I get angry, slashdot gets 503 errors... Sorry about those, folks.
Seriously, though... isn't there such a thing as 'rolling back production code,' and 'unit tests,' and 'testing out code on a test server before pushing to production'?
Those of us that work in coding shops use these profusely... would be more professional to see something like this in action at slashdot.
If you agree, please mod up.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
This is also used to aid people who are completely paralysed to communicate through a PC.
It uses a P6 response which is exercised through pre-emptive expectant brain activity. If you hook up a ECG, and filter the waveforms, at certain points a frequency jumps, at the point where you expect a red traffic light to go green.
Signal processing of ECG signals allows you to isolate certain conditions of thought, and therefore, thought allows you to control whatever is triggered by the filters.
Neat! I can save myself RSI in 5 years, but fry my brain trying to think-type and solve programming problems.
Perhaps they will use this to install seti in everyones brain!!
Tod.
PS: Seti is evil.
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Perhaps all the sites that have suffered the wrath of 1 million nerds trying to access at the same time have decided to give /. a taste of its own medicine..................
welcome our new pong mind controlling overlords...
WTF is an Ashley Judd comment?
Howdy.
Using your mind as a controller, we will be able to see the history of video games repeated (perhaps a bit faster this time around). It starts with Pong. Soon, the mind controller will move to Pac-Man, Pitfall, Missile Command, and the other hits of the Atari. Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros., Zelda, and the Nintendo games soon follow, and the mind can now handle two "buttons" or action-thoughts. Sonic and friends give a third "button" to the early Genesis style mind controller, only to be outdone by the massive six "buttons" of Super Nintendo. Playstation then invades and gives eight button functionality with Final Fantasy VII and other great games (sorry I'm not much of a PS person). Three-dimensional games are now becoming the norm, as GoldenEye debuts on the Mindtendo 64. Full-blown realistic graphics power the new versions of the systems, as you control first person shooters like never before. Grand Theft Auto takes on a whole new meaning, as do the Zelda games. What will the next revolution be?
Moderation Insight
Switch the goals so the least relaxed person wins and watch as your opponent gets so agitated his head explodes!
you kids with your cheap jedi references. pah.
Just smoke up before playing, no one would be able to beat you!
There was a "biofeedback" boom back in the 1970s. Most of these ideas were tried back then.
What will be its flight characteristics?
Just saw I Robot. Is this the future? Will a Positroic brain actually be a hybrid Human brain from abortions merged with this technology, overlayed with the 3 laws and on acid?
Imagine a contest to see who can muster the largest amount of brainwaves?
Of course; this might end up looking like a constipation contest if it got out of hand! heh
....move along....nothing to see here....
Seems like a bit of an oxymoron. But then so is coolness...
"Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"
all your minds are belong to us!
(At last, the fusion of 2 great slashdot's jokes!)
You would probably keep losing.
I'm guessing that the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.
This goes for any "game"... including music.
When you care, you hesistate, and when you hesistate, you leave the groove.
It's important to plow forward with a sense of abandonment. Any excess tension, mental or physical, will shut you down - no matter if you are in a concert hall, the golf course, or a tennis court!
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
So when will we see these in arcades? I'd go to one to give it a try. Also, if they just produced the sensor, maybe as a USB interface, they could sell it with some software as a way to practice relaxing.
I do security
See
http://www.linspire.com/RunLinspireFlash.php
(flash - very funny)
...would really kick ass on this game. She was an expert at the whole passive-aggressive thing. She'd just sit there, looking content, giving you no clue that the rage was building within her, then you'd do something completely innocuous and POW! all of the sudden and she'd explode on you. That was your indication that she her mind wasn't really as calm as appeared. Kinda like the calm before the storm. She was actually very skillful at a variety of mindgames. Once my therapist is able to break through the mental blocks she says I've put up, I'll be able to list them all here for your amusement.
Wow, this is fantastic stuff. Why are people complaining this is 'too simple'? What do you want, Honda ads featuring steering wheel-less cars?
This is an absolute (apologies to Scott Bakula) Quantum Leap over anything I've ever seen before. I'm no scientist so I haven't seen the prior research, but this is amazing stuff. I think if the news media gets a hold of this one the interest would skyrocket.
Whether this is proof of concept or not, the reality is that nothing has ever been created that is anywhere like this in the commerical market. Even for the super-rich, this is the toy to have. I could've swore this was $199.00 (by quickly misreading the price) and was pulling at my wallet when I realized my mistake.
Where is the wonder? Where is the spectacle? Are we really so jaded to everything that when something unabashadly ingenius arrives, even in the most simplistic of forms, we can't simply enjoy it?
I believe this is the beginning of an era, one that will only hasten its way here if this gets the attention it deserves. What geek wouldn't love to face-off with an archrival or friend?
Battle of wits? Meeting of the minds? This is fantastic.
since the beginning of time.
Anyone have any insights as to the kind of education needed?
Right now I'm looking at CSE (comp. sci with some EE) and a chem minor and then grad/med school for some sort of neuroscience.
That last part is based on nothing at all though, I still have some time until I graduate.
(actually my real goal is to achieve world domination through my AI enhanced droid army)
Sheesh. There they go again. Presuming (erroneously) that people have two or more brain cells to rub together to send smoke signals to a video game.
The reason people play video games is because they are too stupid to d anything worthwhile.
Now stop interrupting my video game with this crap.
wake up and hold your nose
I do agree with the Cowards who've posted saying they think the most intense brainwaves should move the ball forward, but I wonder if we don't run into a measuring problem. Is it indeed more difficult to calm one's brainwaves than to excite them? Reminds me of the game show The Chair from a few years back. It always seemed like it should have been easier to stay relaxed. Granted, the Chair measured heart rate, but the process to control relax either measurement ought to be the same, right?
Howdy.
...I wear my tin-foil hat?
Nah! Tinkering with production code is done by many major coding shops...
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I'm sure I can name more production bungles...Slashdot 503 for an hour isn't a company crasher though.
-Electrawn
So the person whose brain is most relaxed wins?
Sounds like a great game for George Bush. He'll destroy the competition with his relaxed brain!
Globe199
They should build this technology into Firefox.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Yes but it doesnt have anything on neverball.
What, jedi mind tricks? Well fine then, neverball's still FOSS! =P
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
There is an art installation in Toronto called Deconism that asks people to sit around tables, each wearing similar "brainwave detection" devices. Your brain activity contributes to some computer generated music, thus you're doing musical improv with your MIND!!
In actuality though, the difference between YOU CONTROL IT WITH YOUR MIND and "you take a few deep breaths, and your levels change" is quite a big dissapointment.
This sounds no different.
What I *really* want to see is something that you calibrate: i.e. Think "left," and the pattern is recognized, likewise for think "right." Then you can control an actual game of Pong or Arkanoid with your mind. That would impress me.
What's much more interesting, IMHO, is the circular printer on the home page (it's about halfway down).
What I'd like to see is someone use Windows while having the head band on vs. someone using Linux and having the headband on, and have them do the same task. See who has to think harder to get it done. This would be great for designing intuitive "no brain necessary" software.
"The biosensor system, registers the electrical activity in the brain - so called EGG."
Cripes, I've been doing it wrong all these years. I thought it was electroencephalogram (EEG). Now I find out that the brain runs on chicken embryos.
Makes sense though. Most people I know are either hard boiled, fried, or totally scrambled. I wonder if I can get a refund on my student loans and apply for chef's school instead.
The anti-drug TV ad was right: "THIS IS YOUR BRAIN....."
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
You don't win in real life by "being calm", you win by taking action! VOTE BUSH 2004
Are you the same guy who saw that Korean robot kit and then jumped to the conclusion that we're "much closer than we thought" to a scenario like "I, Robot"???
It always starts with pong and ends with getting bombarded by enough spam to drive a person nuts, cept this time it's getting beamed directly into your head.
This message was brought to you by the death of 30 brain cells.
ummmm. wait, that didn't come out right
with those monkeys who play video games with their minds.
This is the NFL, which stands for "Not For Long" if you keep making those bulls*** calls.
loop Okay so you become relaxed enough to start winning. You are about to win and you get all excited. Then the other guy starts to win and he gets excited.... until (coma.induced());
1) rack your oppononent in the groin with a baseball.
2) trash talk your opponent: tell 'em you did his wife last night.
others?
I remembered seeing a brainwave controlled sailboat on some science show many years ago. I googoled for 'brainwave controlled sailboat' and found these guys, makers of the CyberLink, the device used to control the sailboat. Seems this controller has more than just one axis of control, and many different games, including a maze game, tetris, and pong. This kind of thing has been around for a long time, and other companies are doing it better, but the flashy company with the simple yet super expensive setup is the one going to get mentioned, of course.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I'm suprised I haven't seen this posted yet. This looks like the beginnings of the D&D "Sphere of Annihilation" where the dimenional void would slowly move towards the magic-user who could not control it.
No coming back from that one baby!
Hell, wouldn't you have a comment on someone who professed (or was it her mother?) in front of a national audience that she didn't wear panties?? I'd be saying "Yeah, you could tell that under that uniform she had smooth curves.." ;-)
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Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
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Check out these guys. Full multi-axis control, even a brain controlled mouse with clicking. Hell, they even piloted a sailboat with it. I saw it years ago on some science show, and they are still around. Much more advanced than the expensive showpiece in the article.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
This could be the start of the greatest drinking game ever!
Where can one get one of these EEG sensors? It'd be interesting to play around with it..
I think the most effective combination would use your eyes as tracking devices and your mind as a "trigger." Your eyes would be natural to use as analog devices, for a game like, let's say, pong, where you want rapid feedback and analog control. It would also be a natural way to control the focus on a computer screen - simply have it track what you are looking directly at. Then, using discrete thought commands, you could "think" more concrete actions, like "click," "open," or "shoot."
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Totally cool game. Probably one of the coolest things at the wired nextfest.
I kicked ass BTW. Who would have thought I was so relaxed?
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
So who is going to be the first to make a homebrew mindball system using an OpenEEG interface?
You could probably build the entire thing for less than $1000 in parts.
This technology could actually revolutionize the mental evolution of mankind. From a mental perspective, there is hardly a greater challenge than to think of absolutely nothing for even just a few minutes at a time. I'm quite serious, have you ever actually tried it? Close your eyes for 30 seconds and try to think of absolutely nothing (no pictures, no sounds, no memories, and btw thinking "empty mind, relax, think nothing..nothing.." is still thinking. So 99.99% of you will fail this miserably- I guarantee it. So what does this prove? It proves that we are actually not in control of our minds as we so erogantly think we are. It proves that our mental abilities are far from fine tuned. But what purpose does it serve to think of nothing? If we were to spend a lifetime trying to think of nothing what would we have achieved? Isn't high intellect the result of thinking a lot? Well sort of, but mostly, no. What makes the genius is the ability to focus, to concentrate on a single subject with abyss like depths, reaching further than most other humans, and from those depths high intellectual realizations are thus attained. The keypoint here being that concentration is the master key. One who has enough mind control to concentrate on absolutely nothing, has just as much mind control to think (or meditate) upon any one particular subject and perceive its truth far beyond the capabilities of others. But meditation is very boring stuff for most people, and our western societies get easily bored with just sitting around trying to empty the mind of all the garbage that floats about. We like fast & visible scientific results... well, Zen Masters, perhaps now science has facilitated your teachings and more importantly, motivated western minds to truly work their minds.
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well, imagine it has bluetooth, and someone manages to do strange things to your mind... maybe format it?
Rimember: Jappi Pipol In Da Jaus
If you're really pissed after losing a close game would it be possible to mind zap that ball into your opponents forehead?
In the first (non-pilot) episode of Star Trek two crewmen acquire god-like psychic powers from a magnetic storm. Then powerful things happen by just thinking about it.
Wouldn't geeks tend to do better if it was the most active brainwaves?
Might even give the paramedics something to do when your head explodes.
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Close your eyes for 30 seconds and try to think of absolutely nothing (no pictures, no sounds, no memories, and btw thinking "empty mind, relax, think nothing..nothing.." is still thinking. So 99.99% of you will fail this miserably- I guarantee it.
Just... too... easy -- Must... resist...
Some of these brain wave senses are actually picking up your eye muscle activity. In two ways: (1) direct muscle potential; (2) your eye movements can affect your brainwaves.
In practice this isnt bad. In degenerate nerve diseases or cervical trauma, your eye muscles are usually the last voluntary muscles to stop operating.
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... taunt the Mind Ball!
... the ultimate sport for martial artists and meditating monks. These guys dedicate their whole lives to staying relaxed, I wouldn't want to face one of them in mindball.
Jake
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Yeah, it's hard, but I've managed to do it, if not for thirty seconds. I find that it helps to stop during an ellipse - think 3... 2.... 1...... and just let that pause hang there.
a game where i will have an advantage because of narcolep... zzz...
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(Not ID Software, and the lameness filter wouldn't let me SHOUT!)
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Just thought I'd point out that thinking of nothing is not the same thing as not thinking about what you're doing.
Wait a minute, this seems like bunk. This thing reads the brainwaves and moves the ball. But how could it ever be calibrated to be fair in the first place? For all we know, what this really detects is the type of face cream used by the player [is it impedes the reading].
How do you know that what happens to the ball actually correlates to anything but noise? Blinking your eyes will set an EEG off the map; if you blink do you lose?
I think it would be very hard to show that this is measuring any real state at all, and that its not just differencing two sets of noise.
i played the game one time at the CeBit expo this year ... but as the place was really crowded and loud, i had no ideea if i lost or win - i did not know if you win or loose when the ball comes to your place .. now i know - miserable failure
why did u peaople post this, i was such a happy winner for several months
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Is it happy? Can we taunt it?
Dyolf Knip
Ack! We've lost 30 years on our graphics! So how long do we have to wait before we're controlling Doom 3-like graphics with our minds? :(
"Remember that scene in Scanners where that dude's brain explodes?"
until the pr0n industry starts using this?
Let's see... paddles... balls.. up and down movement... brainwaves... paypal interface... yup, all in place!
That depends on your sexual preference...
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
I have a brainball table sitting like 20 feet from me. I think my company use to do something for the people who designed it or something. Who knows. Anyways, it's pretty fun. Yeah, the best way to win is just to totally relax. Normally you call wiether it will be an 'eyes closed' game or not though. -Armrha
"The only winning move is not to play"
but hypnosis in itself does not make any measurable change in wave patterns.
Suggest you go back and check your research.
i think it will really take off as a spectator sport.
I've played it. Fun stuff.
.5-3.5 Hz Sleep
They had a table at the Wired NextFest in SF a few months back.
It was one of the most entertaining things for me there. (The Z-Printer was
another cool thing. (Printed 3D models.))
As they describe, a person per side, each with a headband to read brain activity
like an EEG. Press a button for game reset and the ball moves to the center
(magnetic mechanism under the table). I believe the graphs' Y-axes corresponded
to brain activity *frequency*.
(Brain wave frequencies for your reference:
Beta 14-30 Hz Alert Wakefulness
Alpha 8-13 Hz Relaxed
Theta 4-7 Hz Drowsiness, Unconsciousness
Delta
(Brain Wave Frequencies) )
The ball had each hemisphere a different color so the rolling was more obvious.
Three graphs: One for each player's brain activity and a combined graph to
illustrate the difference. The greater the difference, the faster the ball
motion.
It's weird. You have two contestants struggling against one another through
being calm. They sit and stare at the table, or even close their eyes. And
then the ball on the tabletop moves without visible interaction. It does indeed
look like some bizarre telekinetic battle. I really liked that.
People freak out a little bit more as they start to lose. Interestingly,
children who played had very, very poor control over their frequencies. Their
graphs were consistently frenetic.
I lost my first game, figured out roughly how to control my activity in the
second game (won), and the final game I spent toying with my opponent. I would
relax my mind and unfocus my thoughts and the ball would start rolling toward
the goal on his side of the table. Relax, relax... and when the ball was on
the verge of scoring I started thinking wildly and trying to feel panicked,
and maybe move my eyes around a lot. The ball would slow, stop, and reverse,
heading toward my side of the table. It must have looked like an epic battle,
but I was just fucking with the guy. My gf saw my graph go from smooth and low
to jerky then back and she figured I was messing around. After a while it
seemed like maybe it was going on too long for the audience's amusement, so I
finished him.
Maybe I'm biased because I won, but I thought it was very fun. I can see this
being a great parlor game *and* biofeedback tool for practicing meditation.
Hey, maybe battling against your own previous performances is a good idea.
"The player being most relaxed makes the ball roll over to the opponents goal, with his brain waves as only aid, and thereby wins the game." This sounds like a ton of fun. So much for my afternoon plan to go outside and watch the grass grow
Now you have a game that could be programmed in 5 minutes using C++, with the only catch being that it uses electodes on your head as inputs. Maybe if someone uses a microwave within 2 miles, it will launch that little metal ball at 700 MPH at whoever is losing, that would provide some incentive.
No offence, I think the idea of having a brain controlled game is a good idea, but they could have put some more effort into it. Honestly, I am at a computer camp, and if I made this thing as a project here, they would not even be particularly impressed.
when I can get one at ToysR'us
Symbolicly, isn't this how the last president was elected?
I prefer to use The Schwartz!
"Simple words such as 'better' or 'faster' are best used by simpletons. Life [...] is more complicated." - TMC
I saw this on ST:TNG, the dopamine effect on the mind. Very scary. I want no part of it. ;)
If we don't make light of everything, we are just stumbling in the dark - Blank
when the expo was in hannover (i think 2000) i went to the swedish house, where you could play this game.
i is extremely replaxing and nevertheless interesting to play.
i played it with my ex-girlfriend (now wife) , but being a nervous computer freak i could only lose.
does anybody want to know anything further about it?
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A range of such biofeedback sports would be more fun.
What's next blood pressure cuffs and pulse rates?
Why is this modded flamebait, it is probably the most insightful thing that I have ever, ever read on slashdot, seriously on a website for geeks it taking care of ones mind should be thought of as an important thing.
Sounds like fast-tracking into management to me. Stay most relaxed when you're winning, and do it with booze. Being brain-dead a major asset.
Psychic athletes have been caught doping, literally with marijuana to attempt to cheat at the game "Mindball" by chemically altering themselves to feel more relaxed. Coincidentally, the accused athletes have all been unreachable for comment due to "overseas vacations".
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
Those who find this mind-blowing might want to check out Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - fantastic SF book (winner of both the awards whose names I can't remember now). At its core is a game not so unlike this (although admittedly a tad more sophisticated)...
In the Swedish TV show Kontroll (Mindball being a Swedish game) they tried to play reverse Mindball (missing the point completely, I guess). Two guys were supposed to get as agitated as possible to score an own goal.
Surprisingly they just sat there silently, looking as if they were playing the usual Mindball game. It wasn't very exciting but I think one of them finally succeeded to win the match by getting the ball to roll towards him.
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So go get yourself some Mandalorian armor or go train Teras Kasi... It's sickening the amount of Star Wars junk you pick up playing SWG for a year.
Paragraphs, dude!
I stopped reading at around "erogantly".
Unless you're John Ashcroft.
IBM will create a computer and name it "Deep Null", then it will match it against the current Mindball world champion, the dalai lama.
I really thought they would have developed realistic-looking sex-simulation console and PC games before going the mindgames route. You know there's something wrong with your laws when they interfere with the natural progress of things and force you to bypass sex in video games. We're such prudes...
Damn! An elephant...!
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
So the way to win is to make sure you *don't* imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Double checked, good sir or madame or troll. I'm working on my certification of hypnosis for therapeutic methods, so this is a recent topic.
The trance state is detectable via MRI, but not EEG; not unless that trance is used to create specific feedback or incite a form of activity or inactivity which does of itself differ measurably; but which could also be achieved without the hypnosis itself. To reiterate, hypnosis makes other tools more effective, but in itself doesn't look very different from normal activity (though, I will concede that if a person's patterns are extremely well known beforehand some deviation may appear; though the deviation might also be associated with additionally manifest behavior, so the study to review this would require very stringent controls).
There are other likely physiological indicators though; skin conductivity, capillary dilation, reduced respiration and heartrate, increased oxygen saturation, etc. These of course are when associated with a relaxation type induction; rapid, instantaneous, or excitation inductions will yield significantly different results.
Any spoon would be too big.