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Sorry to be THAT guy, but... Well, Technically™, this idea has been analysed for, I dare say, centuries at this point.
Edit: and in many (not all, but very, very many) scenarios, it ends up being a profoundly shitty idea.
Not against actual medical use, but unless absolutely needed, it should be a "fuck no." Imho.
Edit 2/unprompted musings: I think we, as a species, are simply too immature for such technologies. We're still at the "age" where the first thing we'll do with it would be to figure out how to best weaponise it.
Because there are ways in which this might actually help if we place some heavy-duty limits and restrictions on the tech itself - I'm thinking about how much it might facilitate comprehension in a scenario where one could transmit the unmolested concept directly, instead of butchering it through language first. But that's still such a hhhhyooooj responsibility, that I simply don't think we could handle as we are now collectively.
This makes me wonder if there is a silver lining to the fact that education is going down the shitter. Science is starting to destroy society. I would rather just be dumb and farm shit.
It's not science that's destroying society - its the misuse of science and worse, greed that has a veneer of science or rather, $cience.
It's the usual story of capitalism, oligarchy and big corp ruining everything for everyone but themselves.
It has been such since the beginning of time. Technology makes it scarier.
Thing is, technology just... is, neither bad nor good. The principles behind every single technological breakthrough have always existed, we just figure out how they work.
Like a knife, science is a tool. The ones who misuse the tool (i.e. us) are to blame for the damage done, not the tool itself.