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  • This approach to a merging of the selves is quite creative. Thou you have to be careful on the kind of conditions it necessitates. First, if you were to connect two persons to the internet mentally, unless you increase dramatically the flow of information, it would not be different than the connection we already have. Perhaps an adequate mutual interface alongside with a lot of training could lead to a kind of merge, but human brain's neuroplasticity may not be enough. Perhaps if from babies :)

  • @AlgeKalipso that's pretty obsolete. i can already link my mind to another mind via the unified field. i would try to think bigger and more complex if i were you.

    and when minds are linked, its not a vomit of information, it's like a google search engine or a library. you are not immediately aware of all the information just as you do not consciously perceive all the information in your brain at one moment. you must search for the information in the brain.

  • You are probably right. I have thought about the subject quite a bit. An obvious approach would be to connect the corresponding corpus callosums in such a way that the four hemispheres share a common neural bridge. This together with other adaptations and training of the connection might create a unified visual field and conflicting but searchable memories. If we talk of complete brain simulations (not yet available), exploring other ways of merging could be done more easily. Lets explore!

  • @AlgeKalipso actually you connect via the cerebral cortex. i dont know why but i know that through that area, you can access the rest of the brain as well.

    i am in no way a scientist. my information is what is given to me. and that is my function. i bring in new information through the methods i have briefly described. it is your job to research all possibilities. i cannot operate fully in the physical and simultaneously be a bridge.

  • All incredibly innovative ideas that would surely end up in the wrong hands at one point or another.

  • What is experience then? We've always defined it subjectively. It is embodyment, the otimization of one perspective on the world that gives us a sense of awareness at all. I don't think technology will win out over ego. Ego is driving it. After all, didn't you use the quote that "there is no such thing as society"? Does it follow that there is no such thing as the individual? No such thing as the cell? No such thing as the molecule, the atom, the quark? You end up with nothing, it seems ironic.

  • This video is very interesting, could this be relating to the speed up of evolution? as evolution isn't so much about the body, but now about how far humankind can take creation. This change won't be a physical manifestation, and we're not capable yet of being able to know if it's metaphysical, so i think the realisation of what is happening won't be realised just yet. Just imagine if someone told us the answer to all our problems. "THEY KNOW THE ANSWER!!! KILL THEM NOW!!"

  • I just finished watching your video. I also foresee the things you've spoken about. Regarding people having internet connection via their brain, it appears that this will signal in the emergence of a primitive type of "group mind" civilization. However, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, don't you agree? Having said that, what do you make of this future where everyone is connected wirelessly? Will there be an elite with better and faster capabilities? Will everyone have same tech?

  • Great video! Keep cranking new ones out if you don't mind.

  • I believe that in a few years the main interface to the computer will be completely mind based rather than keyboard and mouse. You would be able to express yourself like hell then and probably our communicative abilities outside of the mind will slowly be reduced till we will just be able to think. Image how easy it will be to compose music or script a movie or paint. You will essentially eliminate the physical talents and you only need to be talented at thinking.

  • I'm glad I watched this, I have some similar thoughts. With global communications technology as the main catalyst, I think a global civilization is coming into being. Shared ideas and beliefs will be more group oriented, than the current focus on the self. This is where the fear of a "New World Order," 9/11 government conspiracies, microchips implanted in our brains comes from -- looking at this approaching change negatively, rather than as positive. Of course, it could go either way.

  • MIT has an Affective Computing Group.

    We'll slowly replace body parts and organs with better designed artificial parts, eyes, hearts, etc., until we've redesigned the human body completely. This is in the long run, of course, over hundreds and thousands of years.

    Also, regarding the "collapse of the self," -- the modern dislocation of the body, is why we are seeing such interest in tattooing, and body piercing: people are reclaiming their body, to reassert ownership of their physical self.

  • Nice vid i very much enjoyed.

  • Yeah, Collapse of the self... I hope you don't collapse, because I really enjoy the videos you have posted thus far. I like the expressions you have when you speak into the camera. You seem so gentle and sincere. The idea of AI in our society in its advanced stages is kind of exciting in a way. Keep the vids coming!

  • No video response, but yeah I agree about the destruction of the self on a certain level. Mostly in the sense of extreme interconnectedness and hypermobility (basically porting your senses through an outside shell/robot and manipulating it via the world wide web and a virtual reality type interface). Of course, people will be screaming bloody murder the whole time this is going on so it will largely depend on how receptive the culture is to the technology.

    Hint - Look towards East Asia...

  • Good video man, it is definitely something for everybody to think about.  With the rate at which the world's technology is improving, I am beginning to believe that nothing is impossible. 50 years ago, nobody would have believed us if we told them about the emotiv headset, or even the internet! I hope to go into the field of computer science once I finish college, and help pioneer some of these new advancements. The future is closer than we think. Great job again!

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