• TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Technology like this could actually be used to help the rehabilitation process by dilating time, and allowing the offender to be rehabilitated without actually wasting much of their actual life.

    It would most likely be used for harsh punishment in this universe, but its nice to imagine living in a better one, sometimes.

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      7 months ago

      I’m like 99% sure it would just make the time feel longer without any benefit of consciousness. Kind of like certain drugs make everything feel like it’s slow motion, but you still don’t get superhuman reflexes from them.

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        7 months ago

        I think you’re exactly right. I’m not in any way qualified to make this statement but, if I’m right, you can’t just make the brain “go faster” and get more useful time without time actually passing. Processes need to happen in the brain for thoughts to occur, and you’d have to somehow speed those up… I mean there are chemical reactions happening in your nerve endings, how are those going to speed up? Especially by a factor of >1000 as implied by the OOP!

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          7 months ago

          Processes need to happen in the brain for thoughts to occur

          I disagree. I’ve had experiences far longer than their real life counterparts in dreams.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t think so. It probably just screws with the perception of time, I doubt it actually speeds anything up. If it did, we’d be able to use it for way more things than punishment, like for example, doing a deep delve into a subject in a matter of hours.