I don't have links handy -- just taking a brief break from work -- but transcranial magnetic stimulation has recently been in the news for its effects on memory formation. And it's been used for years as a means of suppressing activity in some areas of the brain, for experimental purposes. The applications for Big Brother / North Korea style interrogation are obvious.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Jason Olshefsky <[email protected]>wrote: > A curious idea indeed. "Transcranial magnetic stimulation" (big magnetic > fields focused inside your head) focused on the visual cortex can induce > hallucination of floating discs or lines. Scientists at The University of > Innsbruck in Austria theorize that very close (~200m) lightning strikes of a > repeating nature (1%-5% of all strikes) can cause this kind of > hallucination. As such, they feel it's possible that "ball lightning" may > actually be a hallucination. > > http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25166/ > > For some reason this combination struck me as having some kernels of > speculative fiction. I had heard of magnetic field stimulation before -- > generally in terms of inducing brain wave activity -- but the combination of > ideas just sparked something new. > > --- Jason Olshefsky > http://JayceLand.com > http://JayceLand.com/blog > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
