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dogecoinbase on June 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hacking

Larry Niven hypothesized this in 1969 after the brain stimulation experiments of the 1950s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_%28science_fiction%29#...

digi_owl on June 12, 2015 [–]

Didn't they recently find out that those experiments had accidentally targeted the wrong part of the rodent brain?

That rather than hitting the pleasure center it hit an area related to scavenging?

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