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Originally Posted by Varyon
A while back, I read a short story in which the researcher trying to create something like sensie tech (basically, a device that records everything you experience while you wear it, and allows someone to relive this with another device) suffered a stroke and died while testing it. Having someone relive that basically turned them into a sort of sociopath (IIRC, there was some debate in the setting on if this was evidence of a soul, and that the experience tricked the soul into thinking the body was dead and leaving it).
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I think I might have read that, but I'm blanking on the author, title, or other information that would let me look it up.
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Originally Posted by Varyon
If you could induce something like this at range and, ideally, in an area, you could detonate such a "soul eater" in a large city, then watch as it basically tears itself apart (some people might resist it - probably with a penalized Will roll, although HT or even IQ might not be inappropriate - but they'd never know who they could trust). Unless you had a good way to detect the detonation, you probably wouldn't notice what happened in time to do anything about it, as you'd likely just initially see a sudden spike in violent crime. Use one of these in most major cities - and large military bases - and I'd imagine you'd see total societal collapse in fairly short order.
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Very scary.
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Originally Posted by JulianLW
Wasn't the McGuffin starship in The Hitchhiker's Guide powered by an improbability engine or something?
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Infinite Improbability Drive, yes. In one of the novels, it told space to get knotted.