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Thursday, April 20, 2006

A really stupid thought experiment.

This is entirely retarded...

"Consider the following experiment

Imagine your brain is hooked for a neural scan. An object is shown to you and the neural behavior is recorded. Then you are asked to remember the same object and the doctors recorded the neural behavior again.

Now the most interesting case over here is, neural behaviors were same when you saw the object (using your eyes) and when you remembered the object (neural behavior will be same even if you remember it in your dreams).

So, what is the role of eyes then? Why is the neural behavior same when the input came from two different sources?

The brain processes and tells us the interpretation of the (same type of) electro-magnetic signals it receives. In the above experiment the brain treats the signals from the eyes or from internal memory region in the same way. We are in the matrix – jacked in!"

Who the hell comes up this stuff?! I really hope this person isn't trying to be serious.
Here's something for the comments section - find all the logical and scientific errors in this "thought" experiment.

posted by Steve at 4/20/2006 08:25:00 AM  

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