What is Neural Reality?
NEURAL REALITY
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1. Brain generated consciousness construct subjectively perceived as a genuine state of actual being or existence that reflects, in part, the autonomous processing of exogenus neural stimuli through preexisting biogenetic/biochemical neurocognitive pathways.
2. Psychological and physiological perception of reality resulting from a direct neural connection between the brain and an artificial neural device.
3. Machine generated neural stimuli capable of inducing mental and physical perception of reality that is indistinguishable from genuine life experience.
While Virtual Reality closely simulates a real world environment by actively engaging one or more of the five senses, Neural Reality is that perception of the real world pieced together by the brain and incorporated into the conscious mind as a state of actual being or existence. The artificial nature inherent in Virtual Reality clearly distinguishes it from what is perceived as the "real world." The same cannot be said for Neural Reality - even if induced by artificial means.
Brain-Computer Interface
As biotechnology continues to advances at breakneck speed, the true integration of human and machine will soon become a reality. Today this technology is primarily used for the benefit of victims injured through trauma resulting from accident, occupational hazard or combat injury. In addition, individuals physically handicapped from birth or later afflicted by the onset of disease can also benefit from these mind-machine interfaces.
The future will see the application of this technology for purposes of artificially augmenting/enhancing both the intellectual and physical abilities of otherwise healthy individuals. Use of technology in this unprecedented way will bring about the transhuman era of human evolution.
n.
1. Brain generated consciousness construct subjectively perceived as a genuine state of actual being or existence that reflects, in part, the autonomous processing of exogenus neural stimuli through preexisting biogenetic/biochemical neurocognitive pathways.
2. Psychological and physiological perception of reality resulting from a direct neural connection between the brain and an artificial neural device.
3. Machine generated neural stimuli capable of inducing mental and physical perception of reality that is indistinguishable from genuine life experience.
While Virtual Reality closely simulates a real world environment by actively engaging one or more of the five senses, Neural Reality is that perception of the real world pieced together by the brain and incorporated into the conscious mind as a state of actual being or existence. The artificial nature inherent in Virtual Reality clearly distinguishes it from what is perceived as the "real world." The same cannot be said for Neural Reality - even if induced by artificial means.
Brain-Computer Interface
As biotechnology continues to advances at breakneck speed, the true integration of human and machine will soon become a reality. Today this technology is primarily used for the benefit of victims injured through trauma resulting from accident, occupational hazard or combat injury. In addition, individuals physically handicapped from birth or later afflicted by the onset of disease can also benefit from these mind-machine interfaces.
The future will see the application of this technology for purposes of artificially augmenting/enhancing both the intellectual and physical abilities of otherwise healthy individuals. Use of technology in this unprecedented way will bring about the transhuman era of human evolution.
Resources
- Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary
- Neural Reality Definition
- Neo's Cat
- Urban Dictionary definition of this term integrates a neural reality litmus test that literally makes you do a double-take!
- Skeptical Inquirer
- SI Article on the nature of stereoscopic vision and subsequent reader feedback raises questions on the nature of reality.
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- Sri Sri Dec 14, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
- Surprised by the voting on the poll "understanding of reality". 9 out of 10 participants consider reality to be "unique, individual creation". I think reality is what is commonly perceived by all people. When you create neural reality, the attempt would be to recreate the common perception and remove "deficiencies" or "enhance" the commonly perceived reality.
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- Trendgineer Trendgineer Dec 14, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
- Sri,
Thanks for your comment. The underlying basis of neural reality is that external information is imported, interpreted and assembled into a brain simulated construct representing what we each perceive as the "real world". But the truth may be, it's really all in our heads.
The Skeptical Inquirer article I refer to on this site included a follow-up letter to the editor
in which a graphic artist described an experience in which sleep deprivation literally changed the way he viewed the world. At that moment, the writer suspected that talented artists who generated spectacular images in three dimensions may do so because their "normal" processing of visual stimuli was altogether inaccessible to him and something he only discovered as the result of going 48 hours without sleep.
The real world effect of this difference was made clear when the graphic designer described going to his computer and producing images effortlessly with his distorted sense of vision that projected a "three dimensional construct" into the 2D workspace of his monitor. It didn't last. After getting some sleep, his vision returned to normal.
So, when we say Albert Einstein was a genius, does that mean he was an extremely bright and talented individual or did he perhaps possess the wetware to literally see the universe in a way that the rest of us might not even be able to imagine? If so, the world neural reality simulator running in his brain would have created a much different representation of the universe around him.
If this is true, the implications are nothing short of mind blowing.
-Trendgineer
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- science_fiction_novels_cyberpunk science_fiction_novels_cyberpunk Aug 9, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
- An interesting subject whose importance will be growing more and more in the next decades. I rated and favorited this lens!
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