Part of me is fascinated that someone would actually do something like that, part of me is horrified. For now the horror seems to win out. The price seems pretty excessive and in the end the only thing that changes here is the interface that you use to get the information. Want to know where magnetic North is ? Get a compass and <i>look</i> at it. That will tell you. A flux meter will tell you all you will ever need to know about the magnetic fields around you.<p>Our eyes and ears are high bandwidth and using custom made sensors that output images and sounds that we can interpret we can enter a very large amount of information about our environment without so much as a drop of blood.<p>To literally have a 6th or 7th sense is very interesting but it really is just another low bandwidth channel that can easily be simulated using some tech and our existing sensors.
If you want to transcend the human, just start acting more rationally than the average human. If you want to take it really far, get to the point where you are acting rationally almost all of the time.<p>As Cesar Millan says, where the mind goes, the body will follow.
Very interesting. A while ago I read about a belt that enabled the wearer to know true north and was very interested in trying to develop something similar (maybe the size of a watch).<p>This implanting sounds kind of cool (in a cyber punk sort of way). Guess deep down there's a trans-human in me wanting to get out ;)<p>Not sure about the pain, loss of digits, infections, etc...
They didn't link to Lepht's blog: <a href="http://sapiensanonym.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://sapiensanonym.blogspot.com/</a><p>It's uhh... interesting, I guess. (Lots of stuff about opiate withdrawal and complications from self-surgeries.)
I have taken a similar path of transcending the human element. However, my path is much less glamorous than attaching neodymium/gold underneath my fingers and such.<p>I'm studying the paths of eastern occultism, which direct control of the body using methods passed down from teacher to student. I am also a Reiki master, which has surprised quite a few people on what I have discerned.<p>I can manipulate my heart rate from 50 bpm to 130 bpm, just by concentrating on a specific pattern. I also can adjust my core body temperature up to about 105F and hold it. I can, with touch, feel injuries on peoples bodies, even if they have long since healed.<p>I know about my body.<p>I can tell if I am getting sick and attempt to prevent it. We know of placebo, and how strong its effects are. I just forcefully tell my body that I will not get sick. And I have not since I started practising.<p>Perhaps, it may be called the occult, but I believe we just do not have appropriate methods to measure it. It works for me, and I keep the workings to a very scientific mindset.<p>I'm sure I'll get mod-bombed for this, as people here seem very antagonistic to anything of spiritual or esoteric origin... But I remain hopeful.