Moreover, the very concept of the individual, as currently understood, depends on the difference in interconnectivity. Once this difference changes, i.e. internal states of the nervous system are becoming increasingly accessible, our very notion of privacy, privileged access, cognitive liberty and individuality should be reassessed.
Very cool notion and worthy of a thread all its own.
Personally I'm inspired by these (hypersonic sound) experiments in inter-personal communication and not overly worried about privacy — in the same way email became massively popular because it provided faster and more immediate means of connecting two or more minds that are not in physical proximity, we're now all struggling with junk mail. We'll surely come up with technologies protecting us from the no doubt billions of neuro spam blasts to come as well.
The interesting thing to see happening is that humans seem to be frantically connecting each and every part of the planet and each other into some kind of hyper-efficient mind space that can think as one. Looking forward to finding out what happens after that.
Very cool notion and worthy of a thread all its own.
Personally I'm inspired by these (hypersonic sound) experiments in inter-personal communication and not overly worried about privacy — in the same way email became massively popular because it provided faster and more immediate means of connecting two or more minds that are not in physical proximity, we're now all struggling with junk mail. We'll surely come up with technologies protecting us from the no doubt billions of neuro spam blasts to come as well.
The interesting thing to see happening is that humans seem to be frantically connecting each and every part of the planet and each other into some kind of hyper-efficient mind space that can think as one. Looking forward to finding out what happens after that.