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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: A Boojum Snark on October 02, 2005, 07:19:49 PM

Title: Brain dis-connection during sleep.
Post by: A Boojum Snark on October 02, 2005, 07:19:49 PM
Read this article in the paper today. I found it quite interesting and thought I would share, so I looked up their online version.

http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/sep05/359643.asp (http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/sep05/359643.asp)
Title: Brain dis-connection during sleep.
Post by: Fewlio on October 02, 2005, 09:57:23 PM
Wow, so consciousness is just specific parts of your brain working together. Glad to know if I ever go crazy, that by the time I do, someone will probably be able to "fix" my brain or at least understand the problem fully.
Title: Brain dis-connection during sleep.
Post by: ANeM on October 02, 2005, 11:55:14 PM
Wow.. Was  I the only one expecting something more along the lines of you threatening to remove my brain in my sleep? o_O
Title: Brain dis-connection during sleep.
Post by: aeroripper on October 03, 2005, 01:03:05 AM
I wonder if the science will ever evolve to a point where it will be exploited to torture people by shooting lasers and stuff into their brains to cause different responses.  Man what a nightmare that would be, can't even escape the pain when unconcious :o.

Come to think of it that reminds me of a part in a "anime matrix DVD" that i forgot what its called but it had a short on humans strapped to the power grid or whatever and a laser shooting into their brains making them laugh, then cry and writhe... it was kind of disturbing...



Title: Brain dis-connection during sleep.
Post by: lolfighter on October 03, 2005, 04:10:58 AM
You're thinking of the Animatrix, the reason why Matrix Reloaded was such an immense disappointment: It got our hopes up.
Title: Brain dis-connection during sleep.
Post by: Fewlio on October 03, 2005, 04:29:35 PM
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You're thinking of the Animatrix, the reason why Matrix Reloaded was such an immense disappointment: It got our hopes up.
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I never saw the animatrix and thought it was a huge disappointment.