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Wouldn't really need to be a suit then, would it. Just a plug into your midbrain or something.

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Much more difficult in practice and current technology than a suit that would induce feelings in nerves throughout the body and allow one to activate muscles in response - the whole chemical interaction. Less things to go wrong with bad connections too. We already see the effects of induced currents with the God-Helmet.

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It puts the plug into its midbrain or else it gets the hose again!Edited by crashfrog, : No reason given.

Would that be feasible with the cranial nerves as well, such as the optic nerve?

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Skip the optic nerve and just write directly to the visual cortex. That's what the existing systems do.

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It puts the plug into its midbrain or else it gets the hose again!

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ROTFLMAO!!

That's certainly the best way if you are doing vision only, but if you want the rest of the sensations of smell, sound, taste etc, then it would be easier to plug into the area of the midbrain where all the cranial nerves are found in one spot, rather than across the entire brain (postfrontal gyrus for touch, temporal lobe for hearing etc)

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Yeah, but it's not just a transmission issue; it's an issue of transmitting the right signals. Translation. As it is, we know a lot more about how sensations are mapped to the proper areas of the brain than we do about how sensations are encoded and transmitted along nerve fibers.Plus it's not clear how to "tap" into nerve bundles without severing them and rendering the subject paralyzed, but it's easy enough to drop an array of microelectrodes across the cerebrum to stimulate the proper regions.

I know. I intend to do the research for my honours year on precisely that problem.

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That is the issue, and it gets right down to the fine motor control muscle nerves as well as the sensory nerves. You feel your body movements. The problem is not just to map sensations -- hearing is easy, vision all you need is goggles -- but to map the sensation of gravity and inertia and the interplay of movement.The easiest way I can see to do that is to induce currents in nerves throughout the body, so that you can control the area being impinged.You would also likely get a good workout rather than sit on a couch in some ship deep in ... oops thats channeling Matrix ...Plus you have available technology rather than unknown stuff. I would see it being marketed as a high-end gaming suit, an interactive porno suit and a device for scientific study, learning how to make those higher connections.I also thought about it as a means to take virtual tours of other places. In another version story to protag is a gamer who is contacted by a friend to visit "Jerusalem" -- this occurs after a dirty atom bomb has made the place too radioactive for people, so they don suits to visit while archaeological research and reconstruction are going on. The kicker is that if you go as a jew, christian, muslim or scientist the "Jerusalem" you visit is different. The suits here map to motions of robots doing the actual work, touring etc.Enjoy.Edited by RAZD, : No reason given.

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Ding ding!Round one, Darwin and Creo come out of their corners. Darwin takes the first swing, and WHAM! lands creo with a blow to the cheek...wait a miintue, what's this??? Creo is actually turning the other cheek, taunting Darwin to hit him again!!!!.....and hold-on what's this??? Creo has just pulled out a tunic, and offers it up to Darwin....unbelievable, you just don't see this kind of action anymore, right Marv?Marv: unless you are mother Theresa...Hold-on again....what's this? Darwin has just evolved into a black moth, and the wind currents are carrying him away...Marv: YES!

and just to think we all evolved from a single cell...maybe planton...then into more cells...a fish perhaps...then a bird...then a flying monkey...then an ape...to a man...evolution is amazing.

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"Since I've never been too interested in inventory tracking, accounting, or interacting with people except inside a complex computer simulation, running this simulated coffee shop has been the greatest experience of my life."

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Heh.

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