Comments on: Virtual You

By: Amish Gone Wild

Amish Gone Wild — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:33:38 +0000

if we aint in awr bodees then em i in Uncle Cleetus? coz he STINXS!

By: ciência traduzida: “virtual you” « ciência na mídia

ciência traduzida: “virtual you” « ciência na mídia — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:07:56 +0000

[...] alguns textos de divulgação científica interessantes. Começo com uma livre tradução do post Virtual You, escrito em 07/08/09 por Steven Novella, neurologista da Universidade de Yale, em seu blog [...]

By: JeffG

JeffG — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:17:13 +0000

By: HHC

HHC — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:33:25 +0000

JeffG, Do you like to wait for a Diet Coke or the Real Thing?

By: JeffG

JeffG — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:06:56 +0000

I keep waiting for Bob to say the porn industry should pump billions of dollars into this technology. But apparently he’s going to disappoint us.

By: eiskrystal

eiskrystal — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:47:06 +0000

-We can’t say yet, but to create a convincing real-time video game illusion we will probably need to coordinate multiple senses-

I would suspect that spending time in the VR world would greatly increase the effect.

It actually surprises me that a feeling during an OBE would automatically default to being outside your body given that all your bits are inside. Has anyone researched why we default to floating above our bodies?

By: HHC

HHC — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:15:48 +0000

Draal, Thanks for your reply and links.

By: RickK

RickK — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:25:57 +0000

I remember hearing about a hospital that, in an attempt to better understand the OBE associated with near-death experiences, placed hidden messages on top of cabinets and other places in the operating rooms and trauma rooms. These were placed so that someone actually floating above the room could see them, but the patients and doctors could not. The results were that nobody who’d had an OBE in those rooms were able to recall the messages.

Does anyone know details about this, or a link?

By: Draal

Draal — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:06:42 +0000

Visuals of tiny vibrations: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thermally_Agitated_Molecule.gif www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/resonance.html

By: Draal

Draal — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:05:07 +0000

Is the use of vibration as stimulation based on the concept that everything in the universe vibrates as a matter of course?

Are you referring to temperature (the average measurement of the kinetic energy of atoms)? Or string theory? In either case, um, no. And if someone is claiming it, well, they're wrong sincea n atomic scale vibration is many orders of magnitude off from what we can feel.