Questions tagged [brain]
For creatures with a central nervous system, this represents the major organ of that system. For humans and other terrestrial vertebrates, the brain is housed in the head and encased in bone.
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Dragon shapeshifting and memory mechanism
Dragons are biologically immortal creatures that have evolved the most versatile sexual reproduction in existence, they can morph through a cocoon into any other species from the animal kingdom that ...
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Visual Cortex, superficial Brain Implant - Biological feasibility
In another question Everybody has a brain implant. What measures can a criminal take to escape justice? I assumed that a brain implant would be possible in the future for surveillance.
In this ...
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Everybody has a brain implant. What measures can a criminal take to escape justice? [on hold]
In the future everyone has a government implant placed in their visual cortex at a young age (let's say 8 years). There is no choice about this - except of course for the Big Leader's immediate family....
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Adrenaline-fueled cognition
So, I'm currently toying around with the idea of a hypercarnivorous sapient race on a planet in my universe, and I'd like to make them scary, but without abiding only by the "rule of cool". (Also note ...
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Could a human brain downloaded into a robot have feelings? [closed]
Some of you may have seen the miniseries "YEAR MILLION" by National Geographic.
It is a glimpse of how life will be in the future (despite the title, they don´t say specifically how many years from ...
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Ensuring Continuity of Consciousness When Transferring The Mind Into A Computer? [closed]
I had an idea for a world where brain uploading is a thing, but I have a problem. Besides slowly replacing the brain itself with nanobots and the like, what's the best way to make absolutely sure ...
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Is it possible for a character to live 17 million years?
I have a human character who had his mind transferred to a computer via a method where his brain was gradually replaced with digital parts to preserve his consciousness. (Depending on your view of the ...
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Can our brain access other dimensions/universes? [closed]
Following the Multiverse theory and a possibility that multiverses do not differ much when compared with one another, can we explain a person accessing thoughts or vision from a different multiverse? ...
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How to explain why a mind reading superhero doesn’t hear everyone’s thoughts all the time?
So, in my story, their is a Superhero called “Mind Quad” aka John Paul “JP” Stevenson, a college dropout. Back when he was 23, a radioactive brain tumour nearly killed him, but thanks to an ...
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How Mind Uploading could be done without being invasive?
The timeline in the 22nd century section of FutureTimeline.net says that the brain will be replaced by robotic components until the brain is entirely artifitial and then be transplanted into a robotic ...
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Difficulty using an FMRI scanner with alternative neurochemistry? [closed]
FMRI machines are commonly used to allow direct observation of brain activity, and can be used for non-human animals. However in the case of an alien from a different planet, it's unclear how ...
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Massive Brain-Computer Interface devices
The world in my story is going past the smartphone era.
To replace smartphones people wear a small device like a headphone. The device is not intrusive to their brain, it has nodes that read brain ...
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Body switch justification [closed]
The scenario is simple: A man switches body with another. Social implications are not the issue here, but the "collateral effects" of body switching.
The Ghost Brigades is a book that touches in this ...
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Can the future theoretically be predicted through analyzing the exact patterns of the universe? [closed]
My neuroscience is a little fuzzy, so bear with me. If your wondering how this ties in with world building, it's for a science fiction novel I'm writing, in which there is no magic. I am hoping to ...
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Can you use VR on comatose patients to let them dream?
I have this sci-fi story concept where patients in a comatose state can have their brains stimulated with VR. For instance, the VR can be a dream "game" that helps the patient process trauma. I can ...
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Can the level of pain be measured? [closed]
Because of a recent question I ended up reading through the Painkill-discussion on meta and in the linked question the_OTHER_DJMethaneMan wrote in a comment
Is there a way to "rate" the "level" of ...
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Could there be a way to explain a sound wave (produced by a device) that can control people's actions?
This isn't the same question as the one about a Sound Gun, although it could be viewed as a weapon, for sure (because controlling someone could be a form of weaponization depending on the action). ...
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Effects of immortality on human brain and consciousness
I'm writing a story that features modified humans that have a very long lifespan/ practically immortality. Immortal characters in fiction aren't exactly rare, but I want to write something more ...
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How would nanobots, once digested, make the neural connections in the user's brain that are needed to learn facts?
Due to advances and growth in science, math, history, literature, and other subjects typically taught in schools (K-12), the standard curriculum takes too long to complete, not mentioning post-...
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Virtual Reality and Physical Trauma
How realistic is the trope that wounds received in a virtual reality (VR) transfer to our own?
Examples: In the Matrix (movie) and Neuromancer (novel), cuts, scrapes, and bruises seemingly jump from ...
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Would it be viable to have a pre-wired brain rather than one that is soft-wired or hard-wired?
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The Problem
Can you create synthetic biology that can be installed temporarily in human DNA to give people skills at birth, or are there problems, risks and ...
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Probing neurons to map someones brain
Could you map out all the connections in someones brain just by probing every neuron and tracking them as they send signals to each other (as opposed to every synapse, a much less ambiguous but far ...
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How to overcome transferring information over mental link that changes specific details?
There is a world not too different from our own, at a technology level not too different from our own, with a population similar to our own. Recently, scientists have discovered (by chance in an ...
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Is Brain a Quantum Computer [closed]
I read somewhere that brain is a quantum computer and is actually capable of accessing multiverse. Is this possible?
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Neurological supercharger out of thin air
Some speculation on a neurological supercharger for a sapient alien species:
The supercharger is a natural biochemical compound of some sort produced and stored in a specialized brain-adjacent organ....
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How would mind transfer work and how many minds/memories could a brain hold? [closed]
Many science fiction stories feature the concepts of mind uploading and consciousness transfer. Let's assume that the personalities of the two people in one mind function sort of like dissociative ...
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Single medical condition that causes hallucinations and bursts of short term memory loss
X sees hallucinations of a person A who he does not recognize, the hallucinations are constant (A follows X around all day)
Simultaneously, X has bursts of memory loss, where he cannot remember up to ...
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Can you 'move' a person from his brain elsewhere? [closed]
Bob and Joe are friends. Joe decides to move his life to a virtual reality, and invents a device that copies his brain to a [very advanced] computer (killing his biological body and brain in the ...
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Can a rational creature have a series of small brains instead of a large one?
My question is not human-specific. I found this question that mentions that a brain have more neuronal complexity; I deduce it is more efficient (in terms of neural communication and energy use) to ...
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What's the Optimum Shape for a Radially Symmetric Brain?
I think the idea of radially symmetric alien organisms is really exciting in the questions it raises about function and design.
For those who don't know, humans are bilaterally symmetrical. If you ...
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Rehab/ Recovery for Brain Transplant
What would rehabilitation/ recovery look like for someone with a brain transplant (assuming all the right nerves were properly connected and the like)? Would a person have to relearn everything if the ...
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transferring consciousness from one person to another person? [closed]
Is the transferring of "consciousness" from one person to another person is possible if a brain transplantation is possible ?
Is it possible to pick memories from the brain by using EEG?
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How close are we to eternal consciousness?
A common trope in cyber punkish sci-fi is the ability to upload a human mind to some storage device or AI. This of course grants practical immortality but it is also the main hurdle for tropes like ...
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Memories stored in hair: social and cultural consequences [closed]
Imagine a world where we stored our memories in the hair on our heads rather than in our brains. What social and cultural consequences could arise from this?
Some details about the memory storage: (...
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How would a decrease in intelligence as a punishment be carried out?
An ideal punishment for evil scientists or geniuses would be a judicially mandated, deliberate decrease in intelligence. Let's say that a judge ordered a person's IQ to be decreased from 200 to 110. ...
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Split-brain double identity
My character have a split brain (severed connection between left and rigt hemispheres).
What is unique about his case is that not both hemispheres have the same identity any more.
From what I ...
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The Physiology of people living on a world with 9 year days
I have a world with days lasting 9 years. The inhabitants of this world have taken to migrating across the globe to avoid the deadly night, keeping themselves in a sweet spot. One of the biological ...
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Is there a possibility for an AI to download someone's brain via USB stick?
As you can see, the USB stick is extending from the possessed robot's finger. The USB stick extends its way straight to the person. If it touches the person, then it'll download the person's ...
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Technology that steals memories
There is a device in my story that »steals« memories from a person (I had some sort of transmitter in mind, but this can easily be modified, as long as it uses powerful long-range signals to achieve ...
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Multiverse Premier League [closed]
My parallel universe has the speed of light set at half that of Earth's (1.5*10^8 m/s).
How would a Badminton player (P.V Bindu) from Dearth (my universe) fare against a player (P.V Sindhu) from ...
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Discovering an AI in a human body
Our AI in question inhabits a synthetic brain housed in an organic and genetically modified human body (With a few other cybernetics). This body/brain combination was the result of a black project ...
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What brain resources are needed per limb?
I have previously asked this question about the plausibility of large six-legged creatures, but I decided to split it into several more specific questions because of the advice here.
I want to first ...
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Brain within a brain, plausible? [closed]
Okay, let me clarify. This question has to do with my aliens and how they hear.
My aliens have 3 antennae, a left antenna, a right antenna, and a central antenna. Each antenna has 3 sets of sensors.
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Could a human receive an eye transplant from other animals?
So one of the aspects of my science fiction world is genetic manipulation and modification of humans by one of the factions. I am wanting to have a subset of humans who receive a single eye transplant,...
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How fast could you run a human brain?
Accelerating a person's perceived sense of time is a fairly common subject in science fiction, and to keep a long story short, I was wondering just how far you could stretch time out when you're ...
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Psychological impact of being immortal
Imagine a meta-human, one engineered to be immortal. A combination of cybernetic enhancements, genetic engineering, and other scientific modifications have made it so this human will not die from ...
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Can a species without uniform brain function time survive?
The magical species Zartika living on planet NB-8723D has organisms whose brains function at different speeds. All have almost the same physical body, but there lies some difference in their brains.
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What would make telepathy and clairvoyance scientifically plausible?
I'm looking for a hypothetical scientific discovery that would make both things possible.
I'm just looking for the most plausible scenario.
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Maximum capacity of Parrot-sized Brain
After hearing about Alex the African Gray Parrot, and knowing how intelligent ravens are, just how smart could a brain of that size become?
I would like to limit the responses to current known or ...
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Anti-concussion brain gear?
Say you were to implement in the cranium, a series of baffles (similar to the system used in an airplane, to prevent the fuel from sloshing around). And arrange them in such a way as to partition the ...
