Happiness is a Warm Electrode - Popular Science
In the middle of room #11 in the Cleveland Clinic’s surgical center, Diane Hire lies on an operating table, the back half of her shaven head hidden behind a plastic curtain. Four pins, one driven into either side of her forehead, the other two in back, hold a titanium halo fast to her skull. An anesthesiologist, several nurses and her psychiatrist cluster around the bed.
Happiness is a Warm Electrode - Popular Science
WTF, MATE?
Kind of crazy… Wired or PopSci did a review a few years back of the first test subjects on people using electronic vision enhancement, electrodes on eyes and brains and all. I know we walk a fine line when we play with nature like this but if it makes someone who’s been depressed their entire life happy, after they have tried everything, what else do they have to lose? Would you even consider someone who’s terminally depressed as being ‘alive’? Morals, ethics, etc etc.
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