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The other would be Larry Nivens Puppeteer tasp. It was a remote device that could be used to directly stimulate the brain pleasure center. The dark side of it
by whartung 2y ago
The other would be Larry Nivens Puppeteer tasp. It was a remote device that could be used to directly stimulate the brain pleasure center.
The dark side of it was that it could be so intense, “perfect pleasure”, as to ruin someone’s life as they tried to achieve it again.
Similarly the “drug” of choice were “wire heads” who had a wire connected to their pleasure center. Abuse of which led folks to just plug in and starve to death. But it was not as intense as the tasp.
- bemmu 2y agoThere was also a scene in the movie Strange Days, which has the plot that in the future memories can be recorded and then replayed (even by other people) like movies. In the scene someone gets their brain fried by having a short loop of pleasure played for hours on end.
- sillywalk 2y agoThere was also an episode of DS9, where one of the characters had had an implant in the brain hooked up to the pleasure centre that was intended to be activated to resist torture, but they ended up just leaving it on.
- Doxin 2y agoOne of the better episodes if you ask me. Some great character development going on.