Better living through very strange ideas...
A Sixth Sense for a Wired World
The initial cut did hurt, but not unbearably. He sliced open my finger with a standard scalpel, inserted a tool to make a gap for the magnet, and tried to insert the magnet in one nonstop motion. The insertion didn't work, and he widened the cut and tried again. This time it worked, and he closed the cut with a single suture. The suture was the most painful step -- an indicator that the cold "anesthetic" had worn off. The process took less than 10 minutes. My finger was slightly swollen and sported a blue, knotted plastic thread.
When we were done we sat in Haworth's living room. He brought out a magnet and handed it to me. I brought it near my finger and felt the magnet move for the first time up against the raw inside of my finger. I startled visibly, and Haworth grinned. "Welcome to your new sense," he said.
Leave it to body modification people (who are also neuroscientists!?) to come up with the really cool ideas.
Actually, this all makes perfect sense. I can see some interesting applications for things like this in the future. Heck, maybe it'll even get us closer to understanding things like why some people claim to be able to feel the energy of other people (even though any scientific proof of that has been dubious--of course, the debunking experiments have been slightly flawed, too) or other such psi phenomena.
The initial cut did hurt, but not unbearably. He sliced open my finger with a standard scalpel, inserted a tool to make a gap for the magnet, and tried to insert the magnet in one nonstop motion. The insertion didn't work, and he widened the cut and tried again. This time it worked, and he closed the cut with a single suture. The suture was the most painful step -- an indicator that the cold "anesthetic" had worn off. The process took less than 10 minutes. My finger was slightly swollen and sported a blue, knotted plastic thread.
When we were done we sat in Haworth's living room. He brought out a magnet and handed it to me. I brought it near my finger and felt the magnet move for the first time up against the raw inside of my finger. I startled visibly, and Haworth grinned. "Welcome to your new sense," he said.
Leave it to body modification people (who are also neuroscientists!?) to come up with the really cool ideas.
Actually, this all makes perfect sense. I can see some interesting applications for things like this in the future. Heck, maybe it'll even get us closer to understanding things like why some people claim to be able to feel the energy of other people (even though any scientific proof of that has been dubious--of course, the debunking experiments have been slightly flawed, too) or other such psi phenomena.