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Fear Tuners proestheses for instincts

Background

Our sense apparatus is hardwired to deal with approaching cars, burning fires and other sudden attacks. But we do not have the right instincts to assess those abstract and deferred dangers that have a huge effect on our daily lives.

How can we sense a stock market crash, the hurricane at the other end of the world or a rise of the oil price?

Fear Tuners are worn on the body. They use the skin as interface to stimulate the autonomous nervous system. Fear tuners can be subscribed to a specific fear scenario.

These experiments are aimed to explore whether our natural inability to assess deferred dangers could be replaced by devices. The objects are a set of prostheses for instincts that we have not yet been developed.

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