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Simstim is - at least in part - being worked on by a company called Openwater[0]. Mary Lou Jepsen did a talk at the Long Now Foundation a while back that speaks to the ambition of thought/memory recording via an MRI-like device and the "insertion"/playback of the same in other people [1].

[0]www.openwater.cc [1]www.longnow.org/seminars/02018/oct/29/toward-practical-telepathy/

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Yeah, I was at that talk. A little out there, but pretty awesome.

Have you seen Brainstorm from 1983?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/

No, just the clip that Lou showed at the talk.

I asked because the world of Brainstorm consisted of payphones too, and they did that 'telepathy' with headsets which could replay recorded experiences over that modem line.

Hard to classify that movie, at its time it was pure science-fiction, now it is a technothriller from the past. But very watchable, i think.

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