Now that school’s about to start (or has just started), I
know many a student who will bemoan the fact that there’s going be waaaaaay too
much material to learn; meaning lots and lots and lots of repetitive exercises
until the lessons are well anchored in their neurons.
But according to some joint US and Japanese studies, it
appears that some time in the future, students will be able to just download
that knowledge into their brain:
“It can ‘incept’ a person to acquire new learning, skills or
memory, or possibly to restore skills or knowledge that has been damaged
through accident, disease or aging, without a person’s awareness of what is
learned or memorized.”
However, don’t think you can just sleep on your schoolbooks
and have the information seep into your mind just yet. So far, the study’s only involved visual
perceptual learning via the early visual cortex, but scientists believe that
this type of learning might be applied to other areas of the brain as well.
As always, there’s a word of caution that accompanies such
research: be careful of how people end
up using these methods—perhaps they’ll try to implant new memories inside you
or brainwash you more easily so some Evil Mastermind will be able to ply you to
do its bidding more readily!
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