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Scientists Achieve Mental Body-Swapping
SpaceAdmiral notes the news that scientists have succeeded in convincing experiment subjects that a mannequin's body is their own, and even feeling at home in the body of someone of the opposite sex. The effect could prove useful in virtual reality applications and in robot technology. Here's the paper on PLoS ONE.
/cry
Please don't introduce thoughts like this into my brain when talking about hot female characters... I'll never be able to look at her the same way again!
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perhaps now that you have that insight you can "mentally swap" the disappointment I'm feeling.
Hey, good news! You've succeeded!
This guy's the limit!
I mean, how many of us guys haven't already realized that we're just lesbians trapped in male bodies.
So I'm gay, get over it.
He who said 1,000,000 monkeys on 1,000,000 typewriters would eventually type the great novel, never saw an AOL chat room
Hey, good news! You've succeeded!
I think we're on to something!
Tomorrow's headline:
Article misrepresenting "mental body swapping" leads to mental body swapping!
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
After reading the article they were just simultaneously poking people with sticks...
One experiment involved using the researchers themselves. Another experiment used mannequins found in the dumpster behind a department store. They also mention using chairs and blocks of wood as test equipment. Is it just me, or does it sound like scientific research in Sweden is ridiculously underfunded?
No hope for test subjects who over-identify with Weighted Companion Cube.
I suppose out of body experiences are sort of like brain malfunctions. Perhaps fun if you experience one in the right state of mind (like really good weed). This might make an awesome VR game. Just 'a thought.'
=Smidge=
To be honest, I'd rather actually consume some really good weed than simulate it.
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You *could* just admit you didn't understand it rather than whining about it.
On April fools day they should run only stories that would exist in a comic book world. The ones we slashdotters keep waiting for...
"Scientist successfully places human brain in Ape"
"Safe and inexpensive teleportation now available"
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Just keep eating the junk food.
After a few seconds, your brain "clicks" and you feel like you have an incredibly long nose.
Just imagine the profitability of the pr0n applications of this technology!
I can see the fnords!
You just gave "Reach Around" a whole new meaning in my mental dictionary.
Thanks!
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Prostitution just became an issue of how well the girl can mimic the actions of the pornography you're watching. Ugly prostitutes rejoiced.
I do understand it.
The problem is that it makes no sense,
Lol.
Do you have that on a T-shirt?
You could make a fortune selling them if you got Paris Hilton to model one.
The one I have done involves sitting behind someone, eyes closed, and having your nose stroked (by a third party) while you stroke someone else's nose in front of you. After a few seconds, your brain "clicks" and you feel like you have an incredibly long nose. This is because of the feedback loop where your brain feels something on your nose and your finger simultaneously, and your mental body image just changes instantly.
Are you sure it was a nose you were stroking?
Note to self: Stop putting jokes in my insightful comments so I can get something other than +1 Funny!
I don't know about any test, but I've ended inexplicably on the NJ turnpike more than once.
But that was when I lived in NJ, so it's not as farfetched as it might at first sound.
The one I have done involves sitting behind someone, eyes closed, and having your nose stroked (by a third party) while you stroke someone else's nose in front of you. After a few seconds, your brain "clicks" and you feel like you have an incredibly long nose.
Now I know what to do to feel like I have an incredibly long penis. But I'm not quite sure if it's worth it.
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