CBS is airing a new TV show in the Fall entitled "Intelligence" about a government agent implanted with a microchip and able to access all communication and data. The trailer looks interesting and might prove inspirational for a Eclipse Phase campaign.
Trailer: http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/05/intelligence-full-4-minute-trailer-not....
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Interesting New TV Show - "Intelligence" on CBS
Sat, 2013-06-01 22:57
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branford
Interesting New TV Show - "Intelligence" on CBS
Sun, 2013-06-02 02:20
#2
Baalbamoth
sounds neat
I'll check it out, thanks!
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Sun, 2013-06-02 03:03
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Arenamontanus
branford wrote:CBS is airing
Isn't this the plot of "A Girl and Her Fed"? http://agirlandherfed.com/
(which also involves ghost Benjamin Franklin and koalas)
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Sun, 2013-06-02 18:17
#4
Decivre
You know, I always wondered
You know, I always wondered why an implanted computer is required to work through traditional visual and auditorial metaphors. You'd think that with direct access to the brain, it could potentially create completely new and unique senses with which to understand and grasp the information being pumped into your mind.
Then again, I suppose the guy just "knowing" everything doesn't make for as cool a TV show, so whatever.
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Sun, 2013-06-02 18:50
#5
Arenamontanus
Downloading knowledge
Downloading knowledge requires you to know how knowledge is represented in a particular brain, and this is highly complex. Downloading visual imagery just requires knowing the layout of the visual cortex. So while the knowledge interface would be far better, it would at the very least require *a lot* more tuning and training.
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Sun, 2013-06-02 19:23
#6
Decivre
Arenamontanus wrote
I wasn't so much seeing it as a direct interface to one's knowledge portions of the brain, but rather as a new form of perception. Just as magnetoreception would likely need a whole new sensory component within the brain specifically for understanding the magnetic fields you now perceive, I always thought that a data interface would likely require a whole new "data-reception" sensory component. And I always felt that it seemed archaic that this sensory component would essentially just sum to "sights and sounds and other sensations". It should be an all-new sensation, that is just as familiar to the average transhuman as it is alien to us.
So much as a math boost chip doesn't still require us to math things out in our brains as humans currently do (that math is now instinctive), the brain computer interface doesn't require us to see computer metaphors in the same manner we currently do. When a person with a brain computer interface tries to describe what they "see" to normal people like us, it should be as difficult as trying to describe color to the blind, or your voice to the deaf. They can inform us of what they have perceived to our benefit, but likely won't be able to give us an idea of how they perceive it.
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