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Old 2012-09-08, 18:25   Link #110
Clarste
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Age: 37
@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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