HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?

THE QUESTIONS:
1. How has the internet changing the way YOU think?

2. Is your age important in these changes? Or could it be the amount of time you spend on the net? Or do these changes result from other things?

3. Is the internet changing the ways you respond to other people? If so how?

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http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html

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[omegapointil]

Its an interesting question but how can I tell what I might have thought otherwise w/o ever reaching that mode of thought to make that comparison against. Its sort of like

how do you know the economy wasn't improved with Obama's policies since it just might have gotten worse w/o them. Again like the multiple universes speculation.

[2bsirius]

@omegapointil

If you don't like the original question of how it's changed you, then you could maybe think about how your internet behaviors make real-time differences in how you navigate the world -- both virtual and real.

I agree that you don't have a falsification control for the question, and your responses to it are necessarily subjective, but neither of those qualifications precludes thinking in depth about how the internet both augments and limits our options , does it?

[Elaina43]

I made a vid response to this yesterday - 7.5 minutes of babbling... not unusual for me but I want to re-do it. I'm looking forward to your video response to this.

[2bsirius]

@Elaina43

Great! I look forward to it.

[omegapointil]

HMMMMM, I guess you'll figure out the backwards sequence in my posts.

[omegapointil]

singing that Todd Rundgren song, "Hello its me" And if they singing it to each other

than look out, its Skynet time.

[omegapointil]

own. AI will probably shortly have a superior command of esoterica in the way referencing Wkipedia does today. Then we get to a point where my very personal assistant HAL understands how better to utilize my mind and time, for my own good, than I do. It may become as if I'm abdicating my very consciousness to a disembodied HAL, who can't have an ulterior motive or conspiracy planned. Self awareness has been the standard where AI remains under human control. We start to worry when HAL starts

[omegapointil]

I might venture to speculate that the internet

does in some sense substitute for reverie in the same way reading a book does. There was an aphorism something to the effect of "reading offers the discipline to

control where our thinking meanders" . AI might get to a point where our personal assistant HAL will live in the installation done on our homes throughout.

Hal will drill us, maybe on learning a language, carry on a discourse in some subject its database has a better grasp of then our

[2bsirius]

@lntertubes

I don't have allies particularly here on YT. I think Professoranton produces a lot of good content, but so do many others. I also try NOT to have enemies, but I do feel strongly about some issues, and there are those would rather resort to fast and savage name calling rather than calm conversation and logic to support their position...[I'm NOT referring to you, OK?[ That leaves either ignoring them no matter how outrageous they are, or remaining civil or leaving- NOT good options.

[lntertubes]

@lntertubes And your ally, professoranton is a lightly veiled salesman for it, like the early McLuhan...

[lntertubes]

@lntertubes Saying “Well, if you don’t like it don’t use it” is a very limited approach that plays down that we’re confronted everywhere by a global-digital computation imperative.

[lntertubes]

@lntertubes This is where I want to turn the tables and say that trolling is an abreaction to, and an unconscious but ineffective attempt to break through the autistic, solipsistic, digital “interaction” and it doesn’t believe in liberating any “useful productive potential” of the medium because there will be no alterity in it anyway, the other will still be desperately out of reach.