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http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html
5. How does a basilisk operate?
The short answer is: we mustn't say. Detailed information is classified beyond Top Secret.
The longer answer is based on a popular-science article by Berryman (New Scientist, 2001), which outlines his thinking. He imagined the human mind as a formal, deterministic computational system -- a system that, as predicted by a variant of Gödel's Theorem in mathematics, can be crashed by thoughts which the mind is physically or logically incapable of thinking. The Logical Imaging Technique presents such a thought in purely visual form as a basilisk image which our optic nerves can't help but accept. The result is disastrous, like a software stealth-virus smuggled into the brain.
A friend of mine sent me a picture over msn which is what this article is describing
here's the image in the spoiler if anyone wants to take a gander at it
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This is...well this is pretty freaking interesting.
I want to see the real picture, but I don't want to "crash" O_O.
Unless of course it's BS, and then...meh.
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This shit seriously scares me.A single picture that can kill almost instantly?
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I looked at it for about 20 seconds, friend that linked it to me looked at it for a couple minutes. We're still alive after an hour so far. xD
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I looked at the thing for a couple of seconds. Hopefully my brain doesn't fry.
This is pretty scary.
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Complete and utter hogwash. Just a crude way to get clicks and propogate chain mails.
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it's a short story written by someone, it's not real.
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Wikipedia tells me its a short story.
Edit: Milkis -.-
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I kinda figured. It's a rather interesting concept though.
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The image is just a section of the mandelbrot set, which was slightly modified and bent in 3D, nothing "mindcrashing"
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Sounds like good old fashion bullshite
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Wow.. my bullshit detector is off the charts. So for some reason the mind will crash if it encounters a certain image? A specific arrangement of photons will crash the brain because it is ''incapable of physically thinking it''? Bull and shit.
Now for reasons.
The arrangement of that photons hit the eye will not cause a signal to go from the eye to the brain which will shut off the brain. How would it? What path would the eletrical signals take for the brain to do the previously though impossible and crash itself (I'm assuming it renders you unconcious)? At worst you may get a headache from your brain not interpreting images correctly (it's how optical illusions work what you see is mostly what your brain expects to see), but you wouldn't crash. The brain cannot shut itself off the only way to do that is by trauma or lack of nutrients. (sleep is technically not unconcious)
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Hey, if this doesn't kill you, the Boogeyman in your closet or the alligator in the toilet will.
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Reminds me of monty pythons killer joke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWGlJrG6sQ )
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On February 06 2011 17:26 Blix wrote:
Reminds me of monty pythons killer joke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWGlJrG6sQ )
I loved that skit.
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obviously its fake, but im still scared now i looked at it =.=
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Tbh that fractal image doesnt really looks like a parrot, its birdish, but not a parrot :D And it doesnt fry my cpu.
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If it can't kill my PC, it can't kill me! hehe. Very interesting concept though for sure.
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