less interesting than you hoped

14
Dec
emergentfutures: ‘Downloading’ new skills into our brains like characters on The Matrix set to become a reality, say scientists They have been studying how a functional magnetic resonance machine (FMRI) can ‘induce’ knowledge in someone through their visual cortex by sending signals that change their brain activity pattern. Full Story: MailOnline This sounds awesome, but won’t we eventually forget how to learn IRL?  

emergentfutures:

‘Downloading’ new skills into our brains like characters on The Matrix set to become a reality, say scientists

They have been studying how a functional magnetic resonance machine (FMRI) can ‘induce’ knowledge in someone through their visual cortex by sending signals that change their brain activity pattern.

Full Story: MailOnline

This sounds awesome, but won’t we eventually forget how to learn IRL?  
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