[kadoban]

That was my followup question, are the memories accurate (even as much as normal memories are), or are they nonsense? Or even better, it'd be fun if they're not completely nonsense, but corrupted in some understandable way (like people/places are substituted for instance). There's no way at all that memories are encoded as essentially mpeg files, so _something_ has to be wrong with them.

But yeah, you're right, odds seem good that they're just nonsense, but even then it just feels weird that the body can even interpret them as memories in the slightest.

[yetihehe]

Maybe it's all about encoding and it IS pretty standard? Brain can decode vision through tongue nerves [1] as long as it looks like vision data and is correlated with head movements. There were experiments with other senses sent through different means or whole new sense (magnetic [2] and echolocation [3]). Looks like brain is so flexible, that anything resembling sensible information will be decoded.

[1] https://news.wisc.edu/a-taste-of-vision-device-translates-fr...

[2] https://blinry.org/compass-belt/

[3] https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/echolocation-in-peo...