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Tabby wrote:Wow. That's really amazing technology. But why can't you force feed information from a camera into a person's brain? Just hook them up together, and get used to it. Is it too hard to insert a wire into your head and let your brain work out the processing details?
Youtube quote: "But can it see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch!?"

I'm sure eventually, such technology would be possible (Geordi LaForge), but for the time being, translating the data into something a different sense can interpret seems a lot more practical. There's also the issue of how much the surgery will cost, what happens if something goes wrong after the surgery, and making the data interpretable to each individual's brain. If I recall, no 2 brains work precisely the same; they just tend to have the same processing functions in the same regions (i.e. frontal cortex for pleasure, as shown in another Star Trek TNG episode).