telegraph.co.uk— Roger Highfield recalls how he could not utter a nursery rhyme as part of his brain was turned off by a magnet.
May 17, 2008View in Crawl 4
Nowadays, the majority of undergrad majors don't mean sh*t. I picked a major I liked and did the pre-reqs for the graduate school I will be attending next year.
Wow, this just opened up something for me, I'm a diabetic, quite prone to low blood sugar, often I have the ability to construct sentances, but speaking comes out a mish mash of nonsense.... unless I sing song it. I can "talk" in a rising / falling tonal pattern versus my typical speech manner. I never thought about this in depth until I read this. Low sugar (hypoglycemia) does some odd things to the brain, sometimes moving my legs during a hypoglycemic reaction just flops my arms around and such, hallucinations, all seemingly random in which effect will appear how in the midst of such a reaction. But this, this is really an interesting revelation. I can sing song my words, but simply cannot speak them, because that particular region was the first to go into lock down when it ran out of sugar. Good article.
"Flowers for Algernon" (wonderful, sad story) is about a dumb man given intelligence. "Reasons to be cheerful" is about a sad man who is given the technology for self-modification. He can decide what he wants to make him happy (girls, food, light ...).This is a Philip K. Dick-level vision of what such "magnets temporarily f**king up your brain" could lead to one day.Once you know where the "happy" trigger or the "God is talking to me" trigger is - will you spend the rest of your life pressing it? Or will you take into consideration that the moment you press it, you betray yourself?Fascinating thought. I will ponder it after opening that bottle of strong red wine ... 8)
gernblanstedMay 18, 2008
I can't wait to put a force into my brain which effects it in unknown ways so I can humorously malfunction before others.
akazMay 18, 2008
F**KIN' THING SUCKS!!
cryonixMay 18, 2008
Like Flowers for Algernon?
415vinceMay 18, 2008
Someone is going to build one of these, large scale and silence the world. Then we'd really be singing and dancing monkeys.
djstan627May 19, 2008
Kinda reminds me of that device from Iron Man. Movie sucked, device was nifty.
idc5May 19, 2008
Nowadays, the majority of undergrad majors don't mean sh*t. I picked a major I liked and did the pre-reqs for the graduate school I will be attending next year.
robephMay 19, 2008
Wow, this just opened up something for me, I'm a diabetic, quite prone to low blood sugar, often I have the ability to construct sentances, but speaking comes out a mish mash of nonsense.... unless I sing song it. I can "talk" in a rising / falling tonal pattern versus my typical speech manner. I never thought about this in depth until I read this. Low sugar (hypoglycemia) does some odd things to the brain, sometimes moving my legs during a hypoglycemic reaction just flops my arms around and such, hallucinations, all seemingly random in which effect will appear how in the midst of such a reaction. But this, this is really an interesting revelation. I can sing song my words, but simply cannot speak them, because that particular region was the first to go into lock down when it ran out of sugar. Good article.
middleofnowhereMay 19, 2008
"Flowers for Algernon" (wonderful, sad story) is about a dumb man given intelligence. "Reasons to be cheerful" is about a sad man who is given the technology for self-modification. He can decide what he wants to make him happy (girls, food, light ...).This is a Philip K. Dick-level vision of what such "magnets temporarily f**king up your brain" could lead to one day.Once you know where the "happy" trigger or the "God is talking to me" trigger is - will you spend the rest of your life pressing it? Or will you take into consideration that the moment you press it, you betray yourself?Fascinating thought. I will ponder it after opening that bottle of strong red wine ... 8)