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Deja Vu Recreated in a Lab Setting
esocid writes writes to tell us BBC News is reporting that scientists may have found a way to study deja vu, that uneasy feeling you have seen something before. Using hypnosis, scientists claim to be able to incorrectly trigger the portion of the brain responsible for recognition of something familiar. From the article: "Two key processes are thought to occur when someone recognizes a familiar object or scene. First, the brain searches through memory traces to see if the contents of that scene have been observed before. If they have, a separate part of the brain then identifies the scene or object as being familiar. In deja vu, this second process may occur by mistake, so that a feeling of familiarity is triggered by a novel object or scene."
I've seen this story before.
Oh wait... Never mind. My bad.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Scientists have officially ran out of things to study
All that work - and all they had to do was read Slashdot headlines for a few weeks.
*rimshot*
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Forget Deja Vu, we must study Vuja De. The strange feeling that somehow, none of this has ever happened before. That one REALLY creeps me out.
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I'll just wait until my victims are in front of the billboard advertising McDonalds burgers and then blow them into kibbles. A few well placed meaty chunkss and perhaps a little arterial spray near the picture of some dude chomping on a burger should add to the overall effect of the ad, no?
I was gonna say, that's some crazy-ass deja vu...
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That's the feeling that you will be reading the exact same article tomorrow.
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They needed to reproduce their results!
It's called "Alzheimer's."
Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived... through something before, that what is happening now has... already... happened?
*runs*
Just the other day...
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah UDBH Syndrome 0xb6 Memory Module Board 3 J3801
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 436398 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55 ECC Data Bit 30 was in error and corrected
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 858871 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55 Corrected Memory Error on Board 3 J3801 is Persistent
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 888460 kern.info] [AFT0] Corrected Memory Error detected by CPU10, errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55
As the hardware gets older these errors become more frequent. Leftover form the dot-com boom days, they can be safely ignored, and one just keeps on drinking.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
From TFA: "Researcher Akira O'Connor presented the findings to an International Conference on Memory in Sydney, Australia."
Let me get this straight: someone named "Akira" is futzing with mind powers?
And very poorly understood ones (dejaa vu & hypnosis) at that?
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Stop eating the lead based paint chips...
"But this one goes to 11!"
So our brains having a timing issue? Good job with concurrancy God!
100s of brilliant scientists... And 3 stupid ones.
Oh.. Around here, Deja Vu is a local gentlemans club. About time they recreated it in a lab setting...
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