Microchips and Revelation

Imagine if a microchip was invented that would give people a sixth sense if it was implanted in their brain. The only catch is that it would replace the sense of taste with the new sense and the implant would be irreversible. 

How would one decide whether or not they’d undergo this procedure since there is no rational way of figuring out if they’d like the alteration? Whether or not someone would love or hate it would be based on a completely subjective experiential knowledge. It would only be after the transformation that this knowledge could occur. 

There are life decisions that all of us face that fall into this unsettling predicament. It’s only by stepping into specific decisions that we can gain certain forms of knowledge. And by stepping into them we fundamentally change how we experience life. It is a knowledge based on revelation. 

A thought as I’m reading Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul.