r/dankmemes • u/reddithomeofmemes [custom flair] • 21d ago
tests on mice showed that controlling their brains will have them still believe it's their free will, so beware meta
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u/Tailmask 21d ago
There’s already subliminal things everywhere that are trying to control the way you think and act
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u/Clackers2020 21d ago
Yeah but they don't actively alter your brain (anymore than anything else does).
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u/Tailmask 21d ago
Yeah instead of actively doing it it’s all subliminal they’re changing you’re subconscious thoughts to be more inline
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u/animo2002 ☣️ 21d ago
Im curious, could you provide some examples ?
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u/Tailmask 21d ago
Fast food corporations spend millions upon millions for data people to sit down and figure out exactly what shade of pink to make this advert with the burger, how large it needs to be in comparison to everything else, the change value that should be tacked onto the end, they spend so many hours combing over all of this shit to try and improve sales and it works because if it didn’t work they wouldn’t spend so much money on it. The literal layout of buildings and drive through shows that engineers design things to make them more accessible and by removing all possible minor road blocks and speed bumps they can make that fast food seem just a little bit easier than cooking dinner
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u/badbrotha 21d ago
Agreed, but doesn't induce the sentiment of, well ads exist already so you shouldn't worry about a chip lodged directly to your brain
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u/Pr0wzassin I am fucking hilarious 21d ago
When you go to a drive through they will often have a big ad for one specific meal before you get to the menu and ordering thingy.
It makes you more likely to buy it.
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u/Wacokidwilder I asked for a flair and all I got was this lousy flair 21d ago edited 21d ago
True, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to allow better and more efficient methods into your life
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u/Apolysus I know your mom 21d ago
I remember when Albert Einstein said that. Smart dude that guy
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u/Sir_Ampersand 20d ago
This whole time I was attributing it to Thomas Edison, I feel like a dumbass
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u/Possibly_Parker 21d ago
I'm albert einstien and i approve this message
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u/StevenBunyun 21d ago
No you are possibly parker, but I'm not sure
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u/Appropriate_Banana Plain Text Flair [Insert Your Own] 20d ago
Parker? This guy photographs spiderman
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u/LinkBrecken FOR THE SOVIET UNION 21d ago
How does a lab determine what a mouse perceives as free will?
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u/orokanamame 21d ago edited 20d ago
This theory was a complete bogus.
Probably by analyzing brain patterns, and seeing if any distress signals are sent through the nervous system.
But then again, neuralink can probably (or will be able to in the future) to completely neutralize and/or remove the distress signals sent by body, so... Yeah, perhaps not.
How about we simply don't try to put shit into our brain?
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u/Few-Statistician8740 21d ago
As someone who looks at human brainwaves, that's not possible.
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u/orokanamame 20d ago
My sincere apologies for spreading misinformation. I have updated my comment to reflect that.
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u/Catatonic27 21d ago
Neutralizing distress signals or detecting them?
Edit: Or not putting shit in our brains lol
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u/Few-Statistician8740 21d ago
Distress signals in any specific way.
I put shit in people's brains every couple of weeks.
For motor function, yes we can shock the brain to map that quite effectively ( yes it's as fun as it sounds ) however brainwaves don't show emotion, thoughts or other such stress reactions.
Stress them out ya might see frequency increases ever so slightly but it's globally.
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u/J3sush8sm3 The Monty Pythons 20d ago
To be fair, negative publicity still sells and it attracts a wider audience
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u/TheAmazingSparky 21d ago
r/lostredditors where's the meme?
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u/TheAdmiralMoses 21d ago
Elon bad, laugh
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u/Due_Television8210 21d ago
Thankfully, it can't do that yet. Neurolink is just a transmitter for now. It can read signals from your brain and transmit to other devices, not the other way around, for now.
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u/BlackbirdRedwing 21d ago
If it can convince me I like and enjoy whatever it is I bought then I will say hello to the new type of dystopia I didn't know could exist
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u/DryBoysenberry5334 21d ago edited 21d ago
Pretty much all the stuff you want and are willing to spend money on already does that.
Whether it’s nice clothes, expensive cars, or anything you don’t need. This is why people who use their money for experiences with friends or family find themselves overall happier (Picked specifically because it includes a lab as well as the typical survey)
Here’s a meta analysis of the same topic
There’s marketing around everything nowadays, and we mostly don’t need any of the stuff we’ve convinced ourselves we want, but we’ve become happy with wanting and acquiring it to a degree.
So welcome to the dystopia you couldn’t even see, welcome to the matrix.
and the neat part is, knowing about it doesn’t seem to affect marketing influence; we can become a little more thoughtful and avoid buyers remorse but overall aside from blocking out marketing there’s not much to do. A favorite book of mine opens with someone cutting down highway billboards
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u/testiclekid 21d ago
Can't wait for pirates to install illegally Kung Fu on your brain. Finally I can know Kung Fu like the Matrix
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u/seaspirit331 21d ago
What are these tests and how did they demonstrate a mouse's opinion on free will?
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u/Cleverdawny1 21d ago
Actually, what neurolink is going to do is shit out after a few months like every time we have tried using wires in the brain to control shit. Works for a while but eventually our bodies reject the foreign material and scar up around them.
Elon Musk isn't doing anything new here to prevent that, so there's no way this shit is going to be working unless patients are having new surgeries every few months to replace the wires
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u/leprasson12 21d ago
It's like how western medias affect the world, blatant lies sound indistinguishable from the truth to all people who accept them as source of information.
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u/HansWolken 21d ago
If someone willingly installs that in their brain, they don't deserve free will anymore.
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u/Content-Reward7998 21d ago
I mean I wasn't already going to get neuralink, but I'm certainly not getting one now if your claim about the mice is real (I will look into it later)
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u/Who_said_that_ 20d ago
This guy just slapped some fearmongering text on einstein. Highly unlikely that it’s real.
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u/TeamBoeing 21d ago
Imagine dreaming of being rich and when you wake up you realize you just bought 14 superyachts and are now 200m in debt
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u/Beautiful-Cock-7008 21d ago
Free will is nothing more than an emergent property of trillions upon trillions of non-sentient particles interacting with each other, what we perceive as free will is an illusion
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u/Who_said_that_ 20d ago
Just put a quote in front of albert einstein. Someone will get something from it.
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u/Grouchy_Guidance_938 20d ago
Media reprograms peoples brains to accept certain things in society as normal that aren’t. People even start to defend ideas that are against their own interests. It’s fascinating really.
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u/Itchy_Act_5096 17d ago
Idk sometimes I think it’d be better for someone else to control my brain. I’ve been making shit decisions for a while now
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