john grigg <starman125@hotmail.com> asked:
> Share with us your methods to neurohack yourself! I would like to
> see just how different/same it is as compared to other cognitive
> enhancement techniques I am already familiar with.
If your interested, here's a neurohack I'd like to be able to
do some day.
Our brain has a fixed 3D space which is our conscious
knowledge of the 3D space that surrounds us. Our primary visual
cortex some how produces a 3D model within this fixed space of what we
are seeing. As our eyes and head move around, changing the part of
this fixed space our eyes are seeing, the model within the primary
visual cortex pans around in this fixed 3D space.
This mechanism is what gives us conscious perception of a
fixed world around us as our eyes scan within it. Undoubtedly the
inner ear is heavily used to maintain it's fixed stability as our eyes
move. Some evidence for this is the way this fixed space moves when
the fluid in the semicircular canals is spinning or when we are
dizzy.
Anyway, that is what we have today. Here is the neurohack
augmentation I'd like to some day achieve. I'd like to have a second
primary visual cortex integrated into this space. I'd like to be able
to monitor the data flowing through someone elses optical nerve, and
use this as the data source for this second primary visual cortex.
The entire system would have to have some complicated way, beyond just
the inner ear, to map the data from both sets of eyes into the same
fixed space, all within one consciousness, but surely such wouldn't be
forever impossible.
So, I'd be aware of what I'm seeing, and at the same time,
within the same space, be aware of what my partner was seeing. If our
eyes were close enough together, part of the imaged would fit together
into a single image, just as usually occurs with our two eyes, more or
less.
Can you imagine having this kind of link up with a sex
partner? And not only just a visual link, but also an entire body
tactile merge with a complete representation of your partners body and
what they are feeling in your consciousness?
Only experience half the sexual experience is such a bummer!
Wouldn't it be a trip to be able to experience it all!?
Brent Allsop
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