Supercharge Your Brain With a Voltage Bump, Learn Faster

[A Bad Day]

Brain overclocking...

Boy, I can imagine some idiot pushing the voltage too far...

 

[santeana]

[citation][nom]gti88[/nom]I know kung-fu.[/citation]
Show me.

 

[androticus]

Me and my Cog Psych grad student buddies used to joke about this: one one hand, there is a body of researchers using TCS for various psych experiments, and they claim it is perfectly "harmless" and "transient". On the other, there are clinical researchers claiming that TCS helps cure depression and other mental disorders, thus implying some kind of permanent effect. Didn't people used to hold radium against their heads for its "beneficial effects" at the turn of the last century? I personally don't want to be a grim statistical joke for the turn of *next* century!

 

[richboyliang]

Many stock coolers don't accommodate much overclocking....

 

[Dingola]

Just noticed a possible negative side effect ... even though I know full well that it is "GoFlow", when I type my previous message at hyper-speed, my brain told my fingers to type g-o-f-l-o, sans 'w'.

 

[Dingola]

Hmm.. that's odd, my previous message didn't show up.
I'd posted that I'd experimented with the GoFlo and some 'CPU' cooling methods (oversized heatsink with down-blowing fan) and that the results were impressive. My typing speed increased dramatically.

 

[Dingola]

Damn, missed the 'w' again. This is really getting troublesome!

 

[ProDigit10]

Just like electrical charge can be used to train muscles, it can also have a nasty side effect, namely, the brain can get into haptic feedback mode,where part of the electric pulses sent to the muscles by a device, are stored within the brain, only to be released at a later time.
The user will feel his muscles spasm, under several lower tension impulses. This could be problematic when doing this to the center of a brain where not only that part of the brain is that connects to the muscles, but a whole bunch of other braincells.
Applying electrical current to the brain that gets stored, and released could be very similar to having an epileptic seizures,and could potentially even lead to death,if those electric currents are released or short-circuiting the part of the brain that is responsible for us being alive (and that part that controls automatic functions like heartbeat and lungs.

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]Overclocking also tends to reduce the lifespan of the CPU. Will this decrease your lifespan as well?[/citation]

Don't think so.
It's been proven that the body can function reasonably well without a brain or heart.
Proven by both an ex President and ex Vice President