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by netizen-936824 1627 days ago
I wouldn't exactly call electroshock therapy an "input of information"

The same way deep brain stimulation is not an input of information. They're just attempts to modulate neural oscillations in order to alter behaviors and thought processes

To be honest, we don't understand memory itself well enough to build a device for information input. Even our output devices are incredibly blunt and primitive.

Not to say its impossible, people are working constantly on learning how the brain stores information but it doesn't have the sort of funding that cancer research has, so it can be a bit slow going. Also not to say that throwing money at it would solve the problem overnight, the brain as a system is absurdly complex