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> “When the belt experiment was over, Wächter felt lost” It seems slightly cruel to me to give someone a device to augment their senses without some provision
by steffan 12y ago
> “When the belt experiment was over, Wächter felt lost”
It seems slightly cruel to me to give someone a device to augment their senses without some provision for them to continue using it if the experiment is successful.
I suppose it's also possible that Wächter didn't want to continue using / being reliant upon the belt despite the loss of the spatial sense it had provided.
- gabriel34 12y agoI think the experiment was still in progress when they took it away, since they observed his reactions to this. Later they might have given him the device.
- bashinator 12y agoI recall reading quite a while back about these ethical considerations - I'm pretty sure the ethics have been better taken into account with subsequent experiments.
- Kaivo 12y agoThat reminds me of the experiment where someone lived with upside down goggles[1]. Just like with babies trying to understand what they see, his brain had to adapt to everything and he had to relearn to perform the actions. I wonder how it was once he took them off. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kohUpQwZt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kohUpQwZt8