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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for an Imposter

posted by janrinok on Friday December 23 2016, @11:46PM   
from the so-he-says dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Neuroscientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have mapped the brain injuries -- or lesions -- that result in delusional misidentification syndromes (DMS), a group of rare disorders that leaves patients convinced people and places aren't really as they seem. In a study published in the journal Brain, Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, Director of the Laboratory for Brain Network Imaging and Modulation and the Associate Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and colleagues reveal the neuro-anatomy underlying these syndromes for the first time.

"How the brain generates complex symptoms like this has long been a mystery," said Fox. "We showed how complex symptoms can emerge based on brain connectivity. With a lesion in exactly the right place, you can disrupt the brain's familiarity detector and reality monitor simultaneously, resulting in bizarre delusions. Understanding where these symptoms come from is an important step toward treating them."

Ah, so that's why...

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Original Submission

• It's not delusional, I tell you! It's not delusional, I tell you! (Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:15AM

  by Hartree (195) on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:15AM (#445306)

  I woke up this morning knowing that all of the posters on Soylentnews had been replaced with AIs that generated posts exactly identical to the ones from the real people.

  (Of course, that means that I'm really an AI as well. But I wonder why I still seem to need that huge morning cup of coffee to get moving.)

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• They forked the universe obviously. (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:53AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:53AM (#445324)

  You just haven't realized you're in the middle of being compressed and written onto the equivalent of a futuristic tape backup.

  What did you think black holes were? They're the write heads for a super massive data storage device :)

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• Re:It's not delusional, I tell you! Re:It's not delusional, I tell you! (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday December 24 2016, @02:55PM

  by Bot (3902) on Saturday December 24 2016, @02:55PM (#445545) Journal

  > all of the posters on Soylentnews had been replaced with AIs that generated posts exactly identical to the ones from the real people
  AHEM

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  Account abandoned.

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  • Re:It's not delusional, I tell you! (Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday December 24 2016, @10:47PM

    by Hartree (195) on Saturday December 24 2016, @10:47PM (#445671)

    Ah, but are you now an artificial artificial intelligence instead of a real artificial intelligence?

    Maybe it's virtual turtles all the way down.

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