Your brain is not sacred, why treat it like it is? Brains are easier to manipulate than you realize.
Besides, Maia, in 50 years a lot of people will try the procedures out, and make them safe over time. Eventually it will be rather painless and routine.
If it was painless and routine, would you change your mind? I bet you would, with a little coaxing, especially if there was no permanent risk or damage involved.
This will happen, I mean, the technology
In 50 years, when I’m 72? What’s the point of that?
No, I would not change my mind. Your assumption is that I feel my life is somehow lacking or incomplete, but I assure you it isn’t.
HA, that’s not what I meant at all
What I meant was, hooking your brain directly into the internet is going to do so, so much more than you can imagine right now. I’m not limiting my point to you specifically, but offering just one possibility and potential out of many.
It literally will be like having two brains, or 100 or millions. I’ll have to think for a bit, to properly describe to you, what I mean
Well, you suggested something along the lines of that it might enable me to “see” the world, so I can’t help but assume you were talking to me personally.
The answer is still no, though. A world without privacy of thought? That won’t happen.
Oh yeah right, like you or anybody else here, has thoughts worth keeping private???
Privacy implies that something you’re thinking is wrong, bad, or evil
As if you are capable of such?
I would rather stick pins in my nails than know what your private thoughts are.
Now that is interesting
You perceive the internet is a security device, something that prevents bad ideas, rather than something that offers good ideas
Now a lot of things make sense
No, I perceive the Internet as something that provides very boring ideas, over and over again.
That’s because you don’t know where to search
You can find very interesting ideas, if you know what you’re after, and know how to uncover them
The internet is big, and it’s getting bigger. You can find almost everything as it is, and soon, you will find more than everything on the internet
I feel that your internet bashing is unjustified and misguided, you underestimate the capability of the internet, as well as your own capabilities to successfully navigate through this sea of information
First ask yourself what type of information you seek, and why
The sort of information I seek would include things like how to share a life with someone, how to make them happy, and so on. You sure as hell don’t get anything like that online.
You’re wrong as per usual
You need to learn how to learn
Hmmm. I have a feeling we may have spoken before.
You need the internet more and more everyday.
The internet needs you less and less everyday.
What does one finally do with costly things that one no longer needs?
I’m a web programmer and have been working online since 1995. The net is here to stay but…
Things are no longer interesting just because they’re on the net, that phase has passed. People used to be amazed by net technology, and that amazement could by itself be enough to keep them interested.
As example, if I were to upload a post about some web software service I wanted to share for free in the 90s, I would be applauded, thanked and treated like a hero. If I did that these days, the most likely outcome would be to be labeled a spammer, and maybe banned too. The thrill is gone…
Before 1995, one usually had to have a responsible job just to get on the net. This meant the average user was educated, intelligent and capable. Once the net was made available to the general public, the average IQ began dropping, and now just like on TV, the majority of net content is crap.
One solution to being bored is to create some great content that you’d find engaging even if you weren’t the creator.
On the contrary, in the future, civil wars, revolutions and uprisings will be initiated on the internet. Man hasn’t even begun to utilize its full potential. We’ve only just begun to get our bearings, it’s only been with us for just over 20 years. In the future, no one will take academic philosophy or academic anything seriously anymore. All true philosophy and science will happen on the web, collectively, each individual will have a say in it, some more than others. Brand new art-forms and intellectual dsicipliens will emerge, things so new there aren’t even words for them yet. What happened to popular art and music will happen to popular philosophy. I foresee goth philosophy and punk philosophy and psychedelic philosophy where everyone philosophizes on LSD, and all manner of mayhem. Instead of one philosopher creating a new philosophy, in the future, hundreds or even thousands will give rise to brand new schools of thought, they may even organize themselves and specialize like a corporation. People will no longer be divided into producer and consumer anymore, it’ll be interactive, everyone will be producing and consuming a little bit or a lot of everything.
Nice fantasy.
The history of the Internet repeats (somehow) the history of modern technology and the history of modern economics and politics, although the history of the Internet itself is also a part of the modern history. The history of the Internet is faster than the history of the whole modernity. Therefore, we can say: The history of the Internet will show us how the modern history will end - probably both will end up at the same time. In the end we will be real and virtual slaves - slaves as never before.
Fight for our freedom!
Or is it already too late?
There is a very high probability that homosapian will shortly no longer exist at all.
And after which, all organic life will be exterminated permanently.
All life will be exterminated permanently? Are you sure?