No, we’re not referring to your beloved Atari Pong paddles – we’re talking about your brain. The EPOC uses a headset that actually picks up on your brain waves. These brain waves can tell the system what you want to do in your virtual reality. In other words, you think “lift,” and a virtual rock actually levitates on the screen.
The elctrical activity in your brain is measurable by electrodes placed on your skull. What we then get is called an electro-encephalogram, short: EEG. Although they rather measure a summation of activity rather than individual neurons. Still, this allows to draw some conclusions and has been widely used in neuromedicine.
For instance, it can help to diagnose epilepsy, or investigate sleep quality. In contexts of the Emotiv, to put it simply, it rather measures levels of concentration than actual thoughts.
But, with sufficient training you can enable such a system to perform a bit more complex tasks, like opening or closing a mechanical hand, driving a wheelchair in a simple mamner, etc… Although, from my experience, the applications are very limited and unstable.
What if, hear me out, there are a few people that can sense that activity when others can’t? Kind of like how some people see sounds and hear color. Since all of you all can’t really sense that shit, you are relentless against people who can. It’s interesting to me. I wonder how that first scientist figured this shit out. Do you know?
Well, at the moment I don’t understand how it works, and any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic, but if I follow the link titled “How the Emotiv EPOC Works” then it will remove the mystery, thus making it distinguishable from magic.
So what you’re saying is half the world is magic because we don’t know anything about half the world. We have theories, but they can’t or haven’t been proven yet. Naming it and harnessing it doesn’t mean we really get how it works. Reading people’s thoughts is supposed to be impossible according to most of this thread. Turns out, they’ve been doing it for close to 2 decades.
I’m curious to what you all think of this:
How the Emotiv EPOC Works
Magic or nah?
Not magic, of course. It’s science.
The elctrical activity in your brain is measurable by electrodes placed on your skull. What we then get is called an electro-encephalogram, short: EEG. Although they rather measure a summation of activity rather than individual neurons. Still, this allows to draw some conclusions and has been widely used in neuromedicine.
For instance, it can help to diagnose epilepsy, or investigate sleep quality. In contexts of the Emotiv, to put it simply, it rather measures levels of concentration than actual thoughts.
But, with sufficient training you can enable such a system to perform a bit more complex tasks, like opening or closing a mechanical hand, driving a wheelchair in a simple mamner, etc… Although, from my experience, the applications are very limited and unstable.
What if, hear me out, there are a few people that can sense that activity when others can’t? Kind of like how some people see sounds and hear color. Since all of you all can’t really sense that shit, you are relentless against people who can. It’s interesting to me. I wonder how that first scientist figured this shit out. Do you know?
Well, at the moment I don’t understand how it works, and any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic, but if I follow the link titled “How the Emotiv EPOC Works” then it will remove the mystery, thus making it distinguishable from magic.
So what you’re saying is half the world is magic because we don’t know anything about half the world. We have theories, but they can’t or haven’t been proven yet. Naming it and harnessing it doesn’t mean we really get how it works. Reading people’s thoughts is supposed to be impossible according to most of this thread. Turns out, they’ve been doing it for close to 2 decades.
Argue with Arthur C. Clarke.
why?
He’s the guy who said the quote, and I’m not gonna do it.