shminux comments on Brainstorming new senses - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lululu 20 May 2015 07:53PM

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Comment author: shminux 20 May 2015 08:43:29PM 4 points [-]

Emotion detector/encoder/transmitter/decoder/injector would be quite useful to the less neurotypical of us. The emotion injection part seems the hardest.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 21 May 2015 10:53:58AM 3 points [-]

Interesting but dangerous if used on a larger scale. If you can control emotions consciously you effectively get rid of their function.

Comment author: lululu 25 May 2015 06:29:17AM 0 points [-]

I could see this successfully using face-recognition software and tied into the auditory sense. I can't remember where I read it, but I read that people on the autism spectrum respond as strongly to the emotions evoked in music as neurotypical people. An emotion decoding computer (those exist and are pretty good now) can decide whether a person's mood should be represented by a happy C chord or a sad D minor or an angry discordant sound or an stressed buzz, and the musicality would be a good non-invasive emotional injector/empathizator.