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Old 02-24-2014, 07:55 AM   #111
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Into-the-brain-book-beaming will be a great way to absorb knowledge--if the goal is simply to know/learn stuff. It would be horrible for story-telling. Sure I'd know everything that happened in the book, but I'd have to re-think about all of it in order to present it to myself as some sort of narrative. Then, even that self-thought narrative would be spoiled because I already know how it all turns out.
Not necessarily.
If all it did was disable the external input interrupts while keeping the input filtering active, you could decide the rate of absorption but still be much faster than conventional reading.
(Think of how you might have experienced having a dream that took seemingly hours but in reality only a few minutes passed. The brain can work fast if it's left to itself and doesn't constantly have to query external input resources.)

Anyway, this reminds me of this story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...short_story%29
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