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The CBS-reporter Serene Branson, who garbled a live report at the Grammys, provides some inspiration for a new kind of television reporting: approximative probable live reality reporting.
This TV-network will only feature live-reporting by people who have been brought into a medically non-threatening
state similar to that experienced by Ms Branson (probably by putting electrodes into strategic areas in the brain).
We will discover some truth about the events that are covered by this TV-network. But the vagueness of the words leaves some room for free interpretation by the viewer.
It will provide a new perspective on news stories.
For those who haven't seen Ms Branson's bizarre and strangely poetic performance, see link.
(?) Serene Branson
http://www.youtube....HM8&feature=related
Apparently she suffered from a special form of migraine [django, Feb 19 2011]
Kids, don't try this at home.
http://www.medscape...iewarticle/415056_3
[mouseposture, Feb 19 2011]
youtube.com: JJ reading FW
http://www.youtube....watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc
[rcarty, Feb 20 2011]
Google...
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-bork
...provides this very service. [DrBob, Feb 21 2011]
[link]
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Thing is, she makes a lot more sense that way. |
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Oliver Sachs describes some interesting things related not
to aphasia, but to the reverse conditions - inability to
comprehend. He describes two groups of patients listening
to a speech on the telly. One group could not understand
the words, but extracted meaning (which was not
necessarily the same as that conveyed by the words) from
the emotional tones in the speech. The other group had
an inability to recognise emotion or allusions in the
speech,
and could only grasp the absolute literal meaning of the
words. Apparently the first group were far more successful
in understanding the speech. |
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...which says a lot about how they write speeches for the telly. |
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Good it was only migraine. I woulda thought stroke. |
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That state could be induced reversibly with a simple
endovascular procedure. |
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I'm thinking of the highly selective Wada test. A fancy,
steerable catheter is inserted into the femoral artery at
the groin, then maneuvered up the aorta, through the
carotid into the middle cerebral artery, then into a
selected tributary of that artery, and so on. At branch
points, they squirt a puff of radioopaque dye from the
catheter tip, and
immediately X-ray the head: that's how they see where
they're going. |
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When they've steered the catheter into the tributary
artery supplying the portion of cortex that interests them,
they squirt in a little anesthesia, and temporarily
anesthetize it. While this is happening, a neurologist is
examining the patient, to see if any symptoms develop.
The point is to see whether that patch of cortex was doing
anything useful, so that a neurosurgeon can decide
whether to cut it out. This (or something like it) is the
procedure [nineteenthly]'s friend had in Turkey (or was it
Morocco?) |
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I know that aphasia is routinely, reversibly induced this
way; I'm pretty sure a fluent aphasia could be, if the
target cortex were Wernicke's area. I'll see if I can find a
link. |
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Edit: Here you are <link> Amusingly, the abstract contains
a paraphasia: "expected Wernicke area" should be
"expected Wernicke aphasia" I think. |
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Intriguing! I have learned something, thank you. I didn't
realize that arterial navigation was so precise! |
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I think I would pay to have this done - it would be fascinating
to explore aphasia, split-brain, prosopagnosia... There's a
business opportunity here. |
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It was in Morocco and yes, that was exactly what he had done. He also tried to give up sleeping. He's very strange. Would you like me to try to get in touch with him? |
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I don't know about anyone else but that made sense to me like Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. link. |
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All Entertainment reporting should be delivered this way because it's nonsense claptrap at essence. |
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If someone with a migraine had been watching that, they would've understood it perfectly. |
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//He's very strange. Would you like me to try to get in touch
with him?// |
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Hmm. Strange is good. Very strange is.... I think I'll pass,
but thanks. |
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//Would you like me to try to get in touch with him?// Well,
I'm curious to know if he's still alive. But only if you promise
not to embark on any "interesting" projects he suggests.
Someone like that, I'm not sure it's even safe to take his
advice on where to eat lunch. |
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[MB] re: commercial opportunities, I think the way to
monetize it is to have it done to yourself (in Morocco,
natch) and write a book about the experience. |
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The book would be intesthilling if it's now a reservigin
procesuing. |
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Oh, did I forget to mention it's only reversible provided there
are no complications? |
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Yes, i haven't exactly got plans to pursue projects that are quite like that. My own attempts at the extreme lie elsewhere, anatomically speaking. |
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It doesn't work, [nineteenthly]. Save your money! |
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Not the kind of thing you're likely to see in spam, [MB], unless your spam's really exotic. |
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Yeah, NOW I know it's spam. |
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I'm trying to follow along, so far I understand that [19thly] is trying to get some part of his anatomy to lie elsewhere, preferably in canned luncheon meat? |
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//[19thly] is trying to get some part of his anatomy to lie
elsewhere, preferably in canned luncheon meat// Very
exotic spam indeed. |
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I'm planning to tin my anatomy canly as being in the marble, which brings us back to the original idea. |
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You changed your mind and decided to put your brain in a jar havenchoo? |
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I thought he was just moving to a bigger jar. |
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