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Originally Posted by Clarste
@grey_moon: You do realize that the people inside the Nerve Gear are still using their brains, right? The signals that are being hijacked are the ones leaving the brain (and entering the brain). The brain itself is untouched. While male or female brains may have some structural difference that could conceivably offer a benefit to playing video games, those differences would have the exact same effect on current video games in real life. Because they'd be effects on reaction times and processing speed and whatnot. Effects that would also help you in real life.
No matter how fancy the Nerve Gear sounds, ultimately it's a just a fancy controller. It's not doing anything crazy to your brain, it's just projecting senses into it and receiving movement signals coming out of it. There's no reason for it to directly interact with deep brain processes.
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They can already use brain signals to control stuffs without touching the brain itself by wearing a mesh sensor net over the top of the head. Interjecting signals to fool the brain can't be that far off. Have your heard of the theory that deep fear in haunted houses could be due to a strong electromagnetic field messing with the brain?
Where is everyone getting their info on what the Nerve Gear is pls? I used Wikipedia (which I know not to be accurate), and also Wikia. To me the desc implies that the gears interact with the brain, also please ask yourselves how does intercepting motor signals allow people to taste simulated stuffs?
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Wait you just said yourself "it's just projecting senses into it and receiving movement signals coming out of it.", right... This might make my PoV easy to explain.... My point is are they sensing signals from the grey matter which is the processors, or white matter which is the signals firing across the interconnects?
In terms of data comms it is much easier for a 3rd party to hijack the interconnects (wire tapping, man in the middle attacks etc), whilst hijacking the node
should be much more complicated. This is where my theory is based on.
Several times in the game it has been shown that speed and reactions is the most important. You don't need physical strength just timing and
speed, therefore if they are sensing signals travelling across the white matter and female brains allegedly have more white matter, that to me implies they would have an advantage no matter how slight!