bogeyman
29th April 2022, 01:55
https://qz.com/1424235/these-real-life-cyborgs-are-changing-their-brains-by-enhancing-their-bodies/
Mohsen Minaei doesn’t look much like a cyborg. Yet he’s made a number of alterations to his body that are decidedly non-human.
The geophysicist from San Antonio, Texas doesn’t wear a RoboCop-style helmet or shoot lasers from his eyes. Instead, he’s experimented with a magnet in his left hand, to make it easier to pick up paper clips, and a chip in his right arm that gives a constant reading of his temperature. And then there’s the device on his chest, attached with piercings, that vibrates whenever he faces north. It’s called North Sense, and about 300 people around the world have one.
Seem a little needless? That’s because it’s not really about facing north, says Liviu Babitz, a fellow body-hacker who invented the chip. Instead, Babitz believes that the tingling feeling that he, Minaei and around 300 others now experience is helping to create new neural pathways in their brains. “So instead of my reality being built from ‘x’ number of elements, now it’s ‘x plus one’ number of elements that I understand reality by,” he says.
When man becomes machine...
Mohsen Minaei doesn’t look much like a cyborg. Yet he’s made a number of alterations to his body that are decidedly non-human.
The geophysicist from San Antonio, Texas doesn’t wear a RoboCop-style helmet or shoot lasers from his eyes. Instead, he’s experimented with a magnet in his left hand, to make it easier to pick up paper clips, and a chip in his right arm that gives a constant reading of his temperature. And then there’s the device on his chest, attached with piercings, that vibrates whenever he faces north. It’s called North Sense, and about 300 people around the world have one.
Seem a little needless? That’s because it’s not really about facing north, says Liviu Babitz, a fellow body-hacker who invented the chip. Instead, Babitz believes that the tingling feeling that he, Minaei and around 300 others now experience is helping to create new neural pathways in their brains. “So instead of my reality being built from ‘x’ number of elements, now it’s ‘x plus one’ number of elements that I understand reality by,” he says.
When man becomes machine...