I propose a model-based A*i* agent that is tied to wearable tech and is attuned to the "I see what you see, and hear what you hear" paradigm. Its purpose is to scan the user's environment for geospatial similarities and harmonic regularities congruent to its library of situations.

At a preset input ( a 'take me away' cue ) the agent can take over a reset of the more annoying environmental stimuli by driving some haptics more atune with a similar but novel situation. For example, while driving, a form of 'road hypnosis' arises when one light seems too much like the next. One's agent then generates a pseudo flow of stimuli that would be totally unlike what one is doing; say, the sound and distance perceptions felt while running a 100 meter low hurdle race.

Below the perceptual boundary that would shock the user out of a stupor, but rather mildly increase the user's senses of accomplishment and focus.
-- reensure, Jun 24 2025

IB-Stim https://neuraxis.com/ib-stim/
Stimulus delivery system - into the ear [reensure, Jun 25 2025]

As much as I like the Iron Mike solutions to modern problems, and as much as I want to encourage humane AI, I can’t see how this would work better that a connection to the battery that sensed when your attention slackens, or more simply, when your grip on the wheel or your head nods. A good stiff shock to the left calf would do wonders to focus the driver. I fear that “anything below the perceptual boundary” would be lost.
-- minoradjustments, Jun 25 2025


Yes, minoradjustments. A simple example, to boot.

A friend's summary: "Go home, subconscious, you're drunk."
-- reensure, Jun 25 2025


Sorry, but, I'm not getting what deja vu has to do with this idea.

Road hypnosis is a totally different thing.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 26 2025


2 fries. Does comparing Déjà vu to the "aura" of a migraine headache offer you a comparison you can relate to? They're both kind of cool, but are jarring when persistent. Again, compare the experience of Déjà vu to the absence of *knowing* there's a better word than what you're about to say, but not having that word in your vocal register.

I wonder if theta wave detection is compatible with opening a channel to GIS data?
-- reensure, Jun 30 2025


// Does comparing Déjà vu to the "aura" of a migraine headache offer you a comparison you can relate to?//

hmmm... a little I guess.

My visual perception has been diagnosed in others who suffer from it as Migraine Aura Without Infarction.
I have never known any other perception, do not suffer from it, (in fact I sort of visually kick ass), and thought that every human saw everything in tiny dots, with tracers behind moving objects, spiky rainbow magnetic field halos around bright light sources, and positive/negative after images lasting seconds until I turned forty when I learned of Visual Snow Syndrome, ran off the trolls and took over as admin of the original group.
Basically, as it pertains to my visual perception, I might as well be on LSD or psilocybin 24/7.

I feel sorry for the folks who have this perception permanently thrust on them in mid-life, but having been born this way...

...you guys really don't know what you're missing.

I have also experienced instances of Deja Vu for as long as I can remember as well as premonitions and outright visions of future events I couldn't possibly know, so I find all of those things to be very distinct from one another.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 01 2025


Not that anyone will ask but... if you asked me whether I subscribe to free-will or destiny?

My answer would be yes, both at the same time.

All possibilities, all realities exist simultaneously.
In one reality a worm decides to dig deeper, in another it decides to surface.

In this particular one...
...I've decided some things of my own.

Since I am no longer plagued with deja vu,(I've never seen anything past the age of fifty and thought that that was the age I would die... but then didn't)... I'm guessing that this branch is new, and that, in this one, we get to write our own ending.

What are the odds?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 01 2025



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