• Zacryon@feddit.org
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    19 hours ago

    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.

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      12 hours ago

      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?

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          4 hours ago

          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.

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              4 hours ago

              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.

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                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.

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                    2 hours ago

                    You clearly don’t understand the scientific method, how discovery works, or objective reality in general. Use your brain for something other than woo woo bullshit, the natural world is interesting and complex as fuck without making up nonsense to explain it like a five year old would insist upon doing.