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Message #09532
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Dennison Bertram" dibst11+@pitt.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:15:57 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] New symbol for BEAM lexicon. Let's try 'Mind Control'
Hey guys. Recently I was lamenting the loss of my old experimenter's
notebook which cataloges all my more crazy ideas. Anyway, I was thinking
back to one of my more interesting experiments, "mind control". Think about
crude pollygraph machiens, the type that measures the skins resistance which
changes depending upon your mood and other factors. I'm sure some of you
have noticed what happens if you touch the resitors on your bicores. Ahh!
Some of you see where I'm going? Crude polygraph techniques rely upon the
fact that if your nervous etc... the resistance of you skin surface changes.
Bicores, and nv nets are very, very sensistive to resitance bias. So,
theoretically, (although it's not really theoretical, it's is possible.
Experiments like this have been done.) If you built say, a bicore head and
then you connected instead of CDS cells or other photodependent resistors
elements your body instead (specifically, the wrist area) then you would
become the variable resitor in your circuit. Then with immense amounts of
practice, it's highly conciveable that some of you out there would be
capable of conditioning yourselves to controll the resitsnace of your skin
in small amounts. (experimenst like this have been done. It is possible.)
And then you really have an impressive toy no? It would be intersting to
consider the implications of 'mind control', which here is mearly used to
denote that in controlling the robot you don't actually 'do' anything
physical. You don't 'move' or make other obvious motions. You simply need to
learn how to play with your body. Try getting excited, getting scared.
Etc... For thouse out there who are intreped and want to try this, keep in
mind the orientation of how you connect yourself to the robot. There is
little worry about you shocking yourselves, (although, general disclaimer,
I'll say out loud DO NOT DO THIS. NO ONE TRY THIS AT ALL. Honestly, no one
should get shocked or anything, especially if you run this off a battery,
but 100ma is enough to stop your heart, and batteries have more than enough
to do the job. It's highly unlikely, but in the event that one of you tries
the unlikely, This is your disclaimer. This is all at your own risk. I'm not
expert, and I can't guarentee anyone anything. Only try this if you really,
really, really, know what your doing. I don't mean to scare people, but I've
got to cover my own arse.)
Anyway, my symbol (which I guess I'm introducing right now) into the lexicon
was a circle with squigly lightning bolt going through it. Much like one for
a varible resistor. Anyway, have fun, use common sense, and if any of you
built some incredible machine with mind controll, you know, I wouldn't mind
a little credit in my direction. :-). Hey, Wilf, you might enjoy this.
later
dennison
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