Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Doing things that don't make sense

...he held what looked like a huge yellow clockwork key over my skull. Then he pressed a button, and the key's "transcranial magnetic stimulation" induced a small current in my brain. One of my fingers moved.

He shifted the position of the key slightly and pressed the button again. A different finger moved. If he had ramped up the current in his magnets and found the right place on my skull, he could have moved my arms or legs. It was like being someone else's puppet, and I didn't like it one bit.

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