... Well, you can always just handwave the problem away. It depends on what braintaping is supposed to add to the setting. Frankly, I don't much like what...
Cl: Braintaping/printing is not just quite useful, but essential as a prop for NB. I'm nervous if too much handwaving is required to justify it, however. ... ...
... What exactly is it supposed to do in-setting? Frankly, being able to program brains requires the following technologies: 1) Can non-destructively read...
3) Can alter the data to put in new data. Requires the above, and also requires a thorough understanding of just how skills actually work in the brain. 4) Can...
... All you need is the ability to construct brains one neuron at a time ;) It's not completely beyond the scale of cinematic nanotech, though it's probably...
G'day, Could you please describe an instance of braintaping or brainprinting that you have already go "out there" or see as crucial to what the back ground? It...
... This is how I always assumed it worked, honestly. A suggestive state, coupled with night-time tape loops, perhaps. Or at most something like from A...
... To some degree, this is doable by massively skimping on everything else people normally learn, which means you get engineers who lack much in the way of...
... wrong, I'm ... age ... Well, given that the alternative people are discussing involves rebuilding brains one neuron at a time, I think we can settle on...
It's a chicken-and-the-egg problem: do people become socially dysfunctional because of their training as engineers, or do people become engineers because...
... There really isn't a middle ground. The basic problem here is that the brain does not have an I/O system separate from the normal senses, so either you're...
The pessimist thinks the glass is half empty. The optimist thinks the glass is half full. The engineer knows the glass is too big. That one never gets old. ...
... the ... so ... you're ... in the ... accelerate ... Asperger's ... generally ... brains, ... which ... This sounds remarkably like a middle ground to me....
Note that the Librarians are also relatively recent, or at least there has been no mention of them (as a distinct group) prior to the Loss. ... [Non-text...
There's some prior mention, as they negotiated space in central Krasnograd for their largest on-the-ground/not-on-Earth archive. ... -- James Sterrett ...
OK, that had escaped me. We need to figure out their backstory though, else it won't be integrated into everything else as needed. ... [Non-text portions of...
I keep bugging Ken about it. His last reply was, in effect, "Stop asking--it'll be up when it's up!" (But put very nicely.) Seriously, I'd been eating up his...
Here's what's been defined about it: 1) It does not create automatons; it does not rewrite someone's personality from the get go. It does not allow you to...
G'day, ... The brain also restructures during adolescence and how you store and retrieve memories changes, its why adults find it exceptionally difficult to...
G'day, One possible mechanism you could toy with playing with is that by doing it young enough they avoid the loss of "savant" abilities. Pretty much all...
... Unassimilated knowledge basically means knowledge in short term memory. Which is grossly limited in capacity (inadequate for a chapter of textbook). It's...
In a message dated 10/8/2007 8:03:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, beth.fulton@... writes: If you could keep the savant abilities beyond early childhood and...
In a message dated 10/8/2007 8:20:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ajackson@... writes: If you can get someone to simply focus on one topic and not let their...
... Yes, but there is substantial room for technological improvement. 'Pay attention and you get slapped' is likely to just teach 'fear the teacher', which is...
In a message dated 10/8/2007 8:42:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ajackson@... writes: Yes, but there is substantial room for technological improvement. 'Pay...
... Including corrections for parent education and income, catholic schools underperform public schools (private schools, on average, match public schools. The...
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