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Watching the flicker thing for a few moments made me think: is it possible that some sort of sensory stimuli could paralyze you?

It would be fascinating if some crazy combination of stimuli could have sort of a “reset human” sort of effect. Given that we’re revolved organisms and not machines it’s hard to imagine any evolutionary purpose, but it’s fun to think about.



Let me leave this here for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash


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