LONDON: Scientists have developed a new 'Inception'-style TV helmet which can decieve the human mind into thinking that fake scenes are real. Using the device, a wearer is unable to differentiate between a live and a recorded feed on TV. Even after the mechanism of the experiment was explained, some test subjects were not able to distinguish between the two.
Scientists said that it was effectively the same process as that which takes place in the movie 'Inception', the high concept thriller from 2010. In the film, Leonardo Di Caprio plays an industrial spy who is hired to plant an idea in the mind of a businessman by one of his rivals, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
The central conceit, is that in a powerful dream state we are unable to tell what is real and what isn't. The test involved a system known as Substitutional Reality which has been developed at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute's Laboratory for Adaptive Intelligence in Japan. Researcher Keisuke Suzuki told 'The Guardian' that it could be a 'powerful tool to investigate how our conscious experiences are constituted in daily scenes'. "In a dream, we naturally accept what is happening and hardly doubt its reality," he said. "Our motivation is to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying our strong conviction in reality. How can people trust what they perceive? Answering these questions requires an experimental platform which can present scenes that participants believe are completely real, but where we are still able to manipulate the contents," Suzuki said.
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