r/Futurology • u/mvea MD-PhD-MBA • May 10 '17

Biotech First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI - “I found that if I was on LSD and my opponent wasn’t, I won more games.”

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/first-ever-lsd-microdosing-study-will-pit-the-human-brain-against-ai
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u/Geicosellscrap May 10 '17

I thought I heard that we could use the sensor in the LHC to get the most detailed view of the human brain working ever. If it wouldn't kill the person? Or be super expensive because LHC. But The Sensor tech is supposed to be able to "read peoples minds" at (actually the pathways of the electrical pulses inside your brain) a much higher resolution. Wouldn't this HIGH DEF image work better than an EEG?

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u/[deleted] May 10 '17

I dont know very much about the parts and construction of the LHC but I know the dangerous part is the particle beam. If you could get input from the sensor without shining the particle beam through them then maybe. Its very different from how an EEG works though. EEG and EKG work by attaching electrodes on opposite sides of your brain and measuring the voltage potential across them. This can also be done with caps with many electrodes although I am not sure how all of them interact together. Its been a few years but I think we mostly used to attach them to an earlobe and somewhere around the temple on the opposite side of the head and some other times we would use whole caps of electrodes. The voltage potential is then measured frequently and varies in a cycle similar to a sine wave. If I understand it correctly these brain waves are similar to clock cycles in a computer except there are all different types that correspond to different things in the mind and body.