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>After being exposed to low-level electrical pulses for 10 to 15 minutes, subjects were easily able to acquire new modes of thinking and were able to apply them for up to an hour.


>The subjects were also three times as likely to solve complex problems while wearing the cap.

>"Without the stimulation, only 20 per cent of people could do it," Mr Chi told news.com.au.

>"With the stimulation, 60 per cent of people could solve the problem."

>Despite such results, Prof Snyder said the "thinking cap" wasn't designed to make people smarter.

>"Its advantage isn't in acquiring more knowledge quickly," he said.

>"Its advantage is in seeing the world anew. Taking ideas from different places and developing them into a new synthesis.

>"It's more of a 'creativity cap'."

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/researchers-develop-thinking-cap-aids-in-creative-develop
ment/story-fn5fsgyc-1226002236002

Thoughts?

>> No.2511413
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2511413

>"Urban legends have abounded for decades about people struck by lightning who suddenly acquire the ability to play Brahm's piano concerto, or head- trauma patients suddenly developing artistic abilities they didn't have before."

So, they got the INGENIOUS idea to fucking shock people and see how it turns out?

>> No.2511421

>Thoughts?

Saw what you did there.

Give me a moment to read this. Sounds like something Apple will put in a white box and sell for a thousand dollars.

>> No.2511423

Probably snake.oil. I;m sleep deprived so I can't have a very rational opinion.

>> No.2511429

>>2511413
Isn't science great?

>> No.2511439

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0016655

There's the source. Pretty neat.

>> No.2511440

>>2511406
>Its advantage is in seeing the world anew
>seeing the world anew
Sorry but I'll stay with my "creativity cigarette", I don't want to shock myself

>> No.2511457

According to one of my theories, depression is proportional to intelligence

I think I'm depressed enough, go fuck your self with your shitty cap, I prefer alcohol and weed, they make me stupid but happy

>> No.2511468

>>2511457
You must be a very happy person, then, considering that your "theory" is more of a conjecture and you're 16 years old.

>> No.2511472

>>2511457
You should try heroin. I hear it makes you quite happy.

>> No.2511539

>>2511468
>Actually I'm totally happy, considering that my "conjecture" is more of a theory and I'm 27 and drunk

>> No.2511691

>>2511439
I'm always hesitant to accept this sort of thing, but the paper doesn't reveal any glaring procedural flaws. Of course, we'll have to wait for the peer review.

Also, anyone else look at the comment on the article? Holy shit, some people are fucking insane.

>> No.2511706

>>2511691
>Where do I buy it? I want to gift it to all our politicians and government directors

I don't know, the comments seem pretty reasonable to me.

>> No.2511723

>>2511706
>So if an aussie had invented phsycotropic drugs, they would be praised in a newpaper article, instead of labeled as evil? Cause mind expansion has been around since the dawn of time. Its dangerous to the establishment, remember! Now get back into line and be a good sheep.
>now how about one which works in reverse so decision makers can be less "creative" and focus on details?
>Here comes another step turning human into robots.
> If people cant continuously challenge their point of view then we as a collective are really screwed. I myself will not use this device i
>This seems like it has the same affect on someone that drugs would; opens their mind to possibility that is usually dismissed by a sober brain. Will the primary users of this be artists, creatives and musicians?

OH MY GOD I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I JUST SAID

>> No.2511724

>The results in this paper would have been quite predictable by dynamical systems theory: the transcranial stimulation may have modulated the attractor landscape of the brain (i.e., neural networks) by external electromagnetic forces, so that the brain is not "stuck" any more in some inflexible attractors or "prejudices" or "first guesses" or "biases" (or "mental templates", according to these authors).

Uh... reasonable is not the word to describe this.

>> No.2511734

>>2511724
Sorry, the comment at the PLoS one article.