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?
So science to you is anything that science explains with scientific words, but didn’t exist before that. So joe schmo invents a mind reader, but that’s bullshit until “science” (whatever the fuck that is) tells you it’s real.
Did you know how an MRI works? It’s magnets. Do you know how a laser works? It’s light. Do you know they’re now using light as therapy? I don’t know how more woo you can get. You guys have blinders on to an awesome world.
All those things are specifically not magic, scientific discovery doesn’t mean it didn’t exist before. Magnets aren’t magic, MRIs are not magic, photons, which is what lasers are, are not magic.
Not knowing about something doesn’t mean it’s not part of the natural universe. Magic is fake, you’ve been grifted and miseducated.
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?
People can’t do those things. There are no supernatural powers. Magic isn’t real.
People are already doing that by using sensors, that’s how the video game works. You guys are so closed minded, I have empathy for you.
Still not magic, very much science.
So science to you is anything that science explains with scientific words, but didn’t exist before that. So joe schmo invents a mind reader, but that’s bullshit until “science” (whatever the fuck that is) tells you it’s real.
Did you know how an MRI works? It’s magnets. Do you know how a laser works? It’s light. Do you know they’re now using light as therapy? I don’t know how more woo you can get. You guys have blinders on to an awesome world.
All those things are specifically not magic, scientific discovery doesn’t mean it didn’t exist before. Magnets aren’t magic, MRIs are not magic, photons, which is what lasers are, are not magic.
Not knowing about something doesn’t mean it’s not part of the natural universe. Magic is fake, you’ve been grifted and miseducated.
You clearly haven’t read what I’m saying. Dig deeper.
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.