Movie Substrate · Film
Limitless (2011)
★ 7.2 · 11,414 ratings on TMDB
What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.
DirectorNeil Burger
The emergence reading
Limitless keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8intelligencecognitive capacity amplified to near‑superhuman levels, granting perfect recall and ultra‑fast analysis (technology · personal)
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