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Black Mirror, S4 EP6 "Black Museum"
Dystopia
Invasive
Non-invasive
TV Series
BCI Name
Sympathetic Diagnoser

First Published
2017
Form Factor
helmet
implant

stimulation
emotions
communication

Linking
A two-part system, the Sympathetic Diagnoser is mainly a brain implant that receives sensory information from a transmitter. The information is confined to sensations — pain, specifically, but also pleasure and fear. The transmitter is a brain scanner that another person wears on their head. When another person is wearing it, the Diagnoser allows the person fitted with the receiver implant to feel the pain (or pleasure) of the person wearing the transmitter. In “Black Museum,” the system was used to help a doctor identify the ailments of his patients by allowing him to feel them himself.

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38%
Reality Factor
16yrs
BCI Forecast
10%
Neuroptimism
4%
Neurafictionality