[apolloartemis]

If this were true wouldn’t fMRI machines cause either loss of consciousness or extreme hallucinations?

[ggm]

I believe in dead salmon, they do.

[exe34]

Thank you for the giggle, I misread this as a statement of faith and a non-sequitur.

[lgas]

They cause hallucinations in dead salmon? I find that hard to believe.

[rdgthree]

Not necessarily - I think it works like Daniel Kahneman's System 1 and System 2. Your conscious system is System 2 - when it's not working correctly, you just fall back to System 1.

Independently, since the whole idea relies on resonance, it may be the case that an fMRI doesn't actually interfere with the "stochastic resonance" mechanic quite like TMS (transcranial magnetic simulation) seems to.

If you model the brain this way, dementia looks like a clear breakdown of System 2, which is an interesting thought experiment even if the mechanics aren't perfect: https://1393.xyz/writing/alzheimers-is-the-symptom-not-the-p...

[neuah]

You know the mechanism of TMS is not mysterious. It requires no magnetoreception or "stochastic resonance". It is simply inducing electrical currents to modulate neural activity. Its effects are consistent with the known laws of physics, known properties of neurons, and decades of neuroscience research.