And after all, I'm not surprised. When I read their long research PDFs, often finishing with a question mark about emerging behaviors, I knew they don't know what they are playing with, with no more control than any neuroscience researcher.
This is too far from hacking spirit to me, sorry to bother.
It's real in terms of consciousness - brains switch between modes depending on activity. You can try it and feel the switch yourself. Whether that switch is localized, or whether people have more affinity for one than the other is probably what's fake.
Look up C.P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" - it was incredibly influential at the time but also described a prejudice we still labour under. It's pervasive in the English speaking world. I suspect less so in the non-anglosphere West and possibly even less so in Asia.
It felt so mysterious and strange. Headless statues, vast empty terraces - the old high level station ticket hall passed under a main road and come out the other side with a view of a huge railway tunnel blocked with an old wrought iron fence.
It's been cleaned up and opened to the public since then - which is almost a shame.
But yeah - I need to bounce between multiple OS so I avoid tools that don't run on all major desktop platforms.
Did these guys not get the memo?
Presuming you had one.
We have many words that almost mean the same thing or can mean ment different things - and conversations about intelligence and consciousness are riddled with them.
The whole problem is Robux isn't it? It's not like the engine is anything special.