Just got my new brain chip and I thought it was bullshit at first but I can already feel myself getting exponentially smarter

I thought it was full of shit but thought holy shit what if it's true. I always heard that the whole brain chip thing was just a bunch of nonsense but I decided to look into it more and ended up getting an appointment at one of the clinics. It was pretty cheap and the guy there seemed to know his shit.<br><br>It was super non invasive, he literally just injected something into my temple and then stuck on a sticker with a chip in it and monitored me for an hour or two. I felt normal at first but now I'm actually feeling it. It's insane. <br><br>I just went to my friend's house and saw that he was growing a small herb garden. I remember him telling me he always had a black thumb but the herbs he was growing looked healthier than any that I've seen in a long time. I asked him what his secrets were and he told me he added small amounts of borax to the soil. He claimed this increases the rate of photosynthesis for some reason and keeps them from dying out. I could have sworn it was bullshit but then I thought about it for a second and it made total sense. Borax absorbs moisture and nutrients, so if there's borax in the soil, then the roots will absorb more nutrients. Then I started to think about how the borax can be converted into oxygen, and how there are bacteria that break down the borax into oxygen that plants can absorb. Increasing the plant's oxygen supply does in turn increase the rate of photosynthesis.<br><br>I'm not a freaking botanist or anything, but I was just able to figure that out in the course of a few minutes. I think this is real, I think we're really here.<br><br>Edit: It's been a few days and I swear to God I'm a whole different person. I'm planning on going back to school, I'm thinking about applying for jobs at Google and Lockheed Martin. I've always been interested in science but now I feel equipped to actually do something. I've been reading through incredibly complicated papers and I can understand them. I read through a whole 800 page book about molecular biology in less than a day. I can do anything. I am, quite literally, a new person.<br><br>I spoke to the clinic I went to about my change and they told me to come in to run some further tests. I thought it was stupid but decided to go. When I got there I was met with a whole group of people that I didn't recognize. They were all wearing lab coats and one of them introduced himself as the head of the department of brain computing. I was a little confused but then the rest of them introduced themselves. One was an AI architect and the others were neurologists, physicists, and engineers. They started explaining to me that I was one of the first people that the chip has actually worked for. <br><br>They didn't go into too many details about what had gone wrong, but they were taking a slightly different approach than what had been used in the past. They had been actively trying to simulate a full human brain since the 50s, but they recently took a new approach. Instead of trying to simulate the entire brain, they're trying to simulate the parts of the brain that actually matter. They figured out how to map brain function to these specific points, and figured out how to simulate them in a lab. <br><br>Their main goal is to make an affordable, implantable chip that you can put directly into the brain. They've been trying to do this for years, but they've hit roadblock after roadblock. The brain is an incredibly complex thing, and there's still so much that we don't know about it. <br><br>They've been testing this chip for the past 5 years but they haven't had any luck until recently. I apparently am one of the first people to have the chip correctly implanted. They also explained to me that the chip isn't actually the entire brain simulation, but it's a receiver that communicates with a mainframe in the cloud. <br><br>I'm still processing the information. Part of me feels like I'm cloud SIM, but part of me feels like I'm able to do so much more than I was able to before. They told me they'll give me anything that I want, as much money as I need, but I have to give them regular updates on my condition. I told them I had no problem with it, I'm not a rich person but I don't give a shit about that. I have access to the cloud, I have access to all the knowledge in existence.