Meet the Andruids

The Andruid [android-druid]

This is going to happen ~ it is simply a matter of time!

Without going into too much detail when i was way younger, me and my mates done a lot of let us say; ‘chemical brain enhancement’. We were punks and not hippies so we didn’t think any magic was going on, and so thought of such activities as brain function. To cut to the chase, it became entirely possible to go into different levels of altered states, mostly at the conscious dreaming and ‘trip’ levels. The former being internal, the latter external hallucinations.

Ok, so knowing what is possible for the trained mind to do, i have to ask myself if this could be possible and indeed useful if achieved via a device of some kind. Firstly we are talking about deceiving the perception of sensory input, such that the brain creates a dream or other kind of false reality and this can be done chemically or via electromagnetic instrumentation* [i am sure most of you have seen videos of the god helmet].

Ultimately i feel that a blend of EM* Tech and more sophisticated devices working with quantum entanglement, will enable at least the same effects as chemicals on the brain, but be far more reliable and with greater utility. Once we have that Tech i feel it is plausible that e.g. my eyes don’t work as well as the HD TV i watch, so i could replace them with beautifully ‘sculpted’ artificial gemstone versions with all the tech built-in. I could also add zoom function and any other photographic/cinematic/night-vision effects. For ears, i could add a volume control and extra long range depth and similar effects. [JK; for ones penis maybe it could detect when women are ovulating :evilfun: ].

How it will work; it requires a compatible to organic sensory device, which in terms of vision will create a 3D mesh of what it ‘sees’, and inform the optical cortex of what colours etc are required for the perception to read that as mimicking the external world. Thus via artificial ‘hallucination’ the blind may see, the deaf hear etc.
Back in the day we used to spend large chunks of the day tripping or conscious dreaming, which makes me wonder if i would not rather be doing it 24/7. That is in the context that at will one can manifest various ‘worlds’, one the same as we naturally see, then variations of enhancements or entirely different worlds/spaces. Not to mention that perceptions* [the consciousness and subconscious] can then also be communicated between! Though by my reasoning i feel that by simply taking the mind to such levels of consciousness, we may not require the extra communicative Tech, though i suppose it could be useful. My main worry would be in the manipulation of such Tech if interpersonal, and to what degree would this or anything above changes the human condition?

Welcome then my brethren to the world of the druids, maybe all humanity will be joining us. :mrgreen:

Or more seriously; perhaps it is better to have use of such Tech as required in the particular! Some people like me will want to be Andruids, but i expect most would not want it except for entertainment purposes or indeed medical replacement of organs ~ though that will probably be achieved simply by growing new organs or 3D printing them.

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*as i see it, there is ‘the’ perception i.e. as in the singular and universal. One of its qualities, perhaps the most fundamental, is its ability to replicate itself. Ours and all of nature’s perceptions are at a tangent to the primary perception, as in we are one of its replications. Duplication occurs wherever there is created or manifest the required instrumentation. It is my understanding via observation, that it is possible to become detached from one’s own perceptive exponent [said tangent/duplication], this necessarily so given that the primary ontology here [that of perceptions self-duplication] is correct, or pertains in the main or to enough of a degree to the actual representative reality [if an analogy or metaphor of] concerning how perception works.

As one perception is derived from its parent perception, it is likely that the correlative function in that could be inverted or reversed, such that the infant may move back into the parent perceptive field. As the latter is [eventually at least ~ after the given set of migrations] without bodily perspective and is thus the universal variant, the disembodied seer/perception can see its own former tangential perception, and to some degree that of others, this probably relative to communications e.g. of a group.

edit2: We should add some manner of ‘recording’ ability to the primary function of the perception? Without such an ability informations be communicated between different agents [duplications] of the perception. In fact duplication here i feel implies a correlative even if non- informational.

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Note; OP has now been edited [see*].

No, there is no technology in existence that will manipulate your brainwaves for a altered state.

I recommend heading to a drug addiction center before any surgical endeavors on your part. Your brain hasn’t been enhanced, its dehanced. Drugs do that.

The intellect begins with ABC blocks, to evolve and mature it must become more multifaceted. To then become wise and sage and develop beyond the norm, it must further this Endeavour and break down all the barriers and teleology by which the human soul is contained. This takes suffering and guts, to pursue the artistic and poetic life and a more subtle philosophical mind.

You just carry on playing with your blocks!

 If that's what it takes, rather than the alternative?

What would you think that is sir?

If Christianity, I’d say that leads to little more than mediocrity ~ though not for the ‘suffering’ saints perhaps.

   There may be a way to salvage self sacrifice, however.  And your comment is also fitting, art for art's sake, but then it stays there. In the realm of aphorism.  So if it's for art , as  implied, then it's an intuitive use of building blocks, from the idea to it's expression.  (That includes science as an art: and after disposition of other religions other than Christianity)?

Well i didn’t mean it to stay there in the realm of aphorism, the artist, poet, philosopher or saint etc are to me all in the same camp. The art is the result of the journey; it’s the breaking down of the blocks into evermore levels of multifacetedness, which in itself creates the more sophisticated intellect – if you will. Perhaps here intellect is not the right word, we so lack in words [a library can have all knowledge, but know nothing, a calculator be better at arithmetic than the greatest human mathematician etc]. Perhaps it’s more like sculpting, with every strike {of adversity} carving the individual, and pushing them on to become more than intended [than their composition would assume].

If i may, i don’t think it is an intuitive use of said building blocks [intuition perhaps here being a-priory info] into a greater expression, but more their destruction such that they themselves become more than their original purpose*. I suppose one could argue that* to encapsulate the artist within the original blocks, but for me evolution, life, and the way of the soul has always been about moving beyond that.

 Right. And here art meets its challenge of interpretation figuratively.  This makes or breaks the movement of art as desribed literally.  This is how the artist is contained in the movement, figuratively, and may fail a literal representation.

I completely agree [why i am not part of any movement]. I was more aiming at life’s journey, as to what underpins the advancement of the intellect. Though i do sometimes think that the intellect itself is stupid, ~ the way it compartmentalises everything forming prejudices, breaks things up into pieces and boxes reality all up n that, when in fact reality is just to fluid for it to understand.
This is why it has to be broken and smashed into pieces, such that the reformed ego can touch the souls mind and its way of thinking. That way we get to touch eternity in brief moments, and advance beyond lego science/religion/psychology.