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Display in the Brain

reality electromagnetic data storage transfer conversion into display see/hear electronic impulses brain decipher feel store



What happens when we watch a video from a website or on the television? What is the end to end process? Lets take a visual experience as an example.

There is something happening. The light that is bounced off the objects is stored as electromagnetic data. This data is then converted into digital form and transfered through the internet or television signals. The display device at our end converts this data into a visual experience, the light from this display device is then converted into electronic impulses by our eyes (retina or some part like that). These impulses then travel to some part of brain which deciphers it for us to feel and store.

To reduce the loss while converting from electromagnetic to digital, we have developed a technology for recording video in digital format. Why cant we record video in the same format as the one in which eyes do it? The cycle will then be something like:



reality transmit the brain decipher store



Reducing hand offs in this manner may help us enjoy experience beyond our current understanding. This can also be used in audio.

May be there is someone who has already worked it out and is reading this (hopefully) and smiling. Or may be I am the first one.





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Kiran said…
hmm.. interesting and thought-provoking .. Indeed, why not apply the "principle of nature" here? after all thats what is the driving force behind myriad inventions - from camera to airplanes!

digging a but deeper into your idea, i guess it wud involve a gel of several fields of science and technology - optics, neurology, study of the brain (brainology if you please - i'm horrible when it comes to these terms related to medicine); as well as modern day digital electronics. .and that list is just the tip of the iceberg.

just imagine what the gains wud be! forget instantaneous transmission, we wud get seamless transmission. In addition to the time advantage, there's also the quality advantage that you mentioned.

Lets just hope someone out there is working on making this a reality [:D]
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