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[Imari]

As strange as this may seem, knowledge is not just because you have a peice of paper to say you read a study book and took a pop quiz.

Is that what you think a PhD is?

It's not.

A PhD is basically a formalised version of exactly what you're doing. It's three years of researching some aspect of your field that is poorly understood or not understood at all under the mentorship of people who have demonstrated significant ability in the field. It's pure research, with minor hand holding to make sure that you're not completely wasting the university's money and time.

There are no study books. There are no quizzes. The piece of paper you get at the end is largely irrelevant, because you'll also have several hundred pages of your thesis, which is in itself valuable information in your field and serves also to demonstrate that you are a skilled and capable researcher.

Hence why I said before that the research as you described it would be worth a PhD. Clearly you didn't understand that at all, given that you have no idea what a PhD is.

All those questions I bombarded you with earlier? Those are the sort of things that professors will nail you with before you even start. You better have a damn good idea what the problems you're facing are and how you're going to tackle them before you get going.

All the information that you're cramming yourself with on neurobiology and engineering and whatever else, you don't even seem to understand how other people came by that knowledge. I don't see how you think you can replicate what they do AND do it even better than people who have been studying in the field for decades.

Is it that you think that there's nobody else out there even trying to do this stuff?

I have a decent understanding of neurobiology, an even better understanding of BCI/EEG systems, and a limited understanding of circuitry engineering. As development continues, I learn along with it. That's how discovering things works.

Except that you'd actually have to be at the cutting edge of your particular field. So far, you're at the cutting edge of avoiding answering any question that might actually demonstrate any knowledge on your part.

You're yet to say anything that I even had to bother looking up in Wikipedia, and I'm not a neurobiologist or an electrical engineer.

How about an easy one. Can you make a person "see" a chosen colour while they're blindfolded?

A big part of the SAO system is the visual and other feedback given to the player. So let's go for the bare basics easiest version of that, which if the tech is as close as you say should be trivial information for anyone in the field. One "pixel", one colour. Make a person "see" purple, without using their eyes.

Can you do it, and how? Be specific. This needs to be duplicable by a third party, like any good scientific research.

If you can't do that, I fail to see how you think you're on the verge of a full sensory immersion system.

 

[Azuremen]

As strange as this may seem, knowledge is not just because you have a peice of paper to say you read a study book and took a pop quiz.

Well, you've put your ignorance on pedestal for us.

As @Imari pointed out, a PhD is always pushing a field forward rather than learning some well known material (that is what a Bachelors and Masters are for) with original research and experiments. This process often takes years, sometimes the better part of a decade, to yield results. A PhD is a piece of paper, but it is a piece of paper that declares someone is an expert in their field of specialization, which is vastly different than an undergraduate degree that is usually the result of jumping through the correct hoops.

You may think you're an expert in living and thinking, but you're quite young and clearly lacking some perspective. Why? Because you think you can use a bunch of buzzwords and unsubstantiated claims of being knowledgeable on extremely complex topics (which I personally don't feel you understand the depth of their complexity) to convince a group to back your "research." The fact you immediately jump to an anime for reference is a big alarm bell, given that most people don't watch anime and those that do usually understand the complete fantasy of it. Another bell being you brought this topic to a racing game forum's subsection, not even a proper racing sim's forum, for discussion.

Lay off the anime, lay on the science.

 

[Pseudopod]

This is the most entertaining thread I have read in a while. Thanks for making it, OP.