I am a huge fan of science fiction. Playing the What-If Game is always a fun mental exercise with clever people...
What if we didn't have to wait for wireless brain-to-brain communication? For audible and visual brain-to-digital-and-back-to-brain communication?
What if it was an already maturing technology of some twenty years, but currently rested only in the hands of the NSA, CIA, FBI, NGA, IRS, and BLM types? (three letter acronyms only please) :-)
While Huxley and Orwell remain loads of fun on long rainy Saturday afternoons, lets face it, those gentlemen never were quite up-to-speed with what was coming in the Information Age.
What if a disproportionate number of ultra-conservative, secret squirrel, "My name is Smith...Joseph Smith" religious types had been tapping thousands of unwitting brains for years? Simply because of their disproportionate numbers in the organizations above. Tilting the technology in their favor since the 1980's.
What if the NSA had a deeper understanding of the nature of electro-bio-neurology than we had thought possible. Kept well compartmentalized and hidden within the bureaucracy of course. Would it have been for the better that such a thing had been kept secret? Would their hands not have been the best hands in which to entrust such technology?
Feel free to ignore the philosophical challenge. I think most of you have realized by now that I don't put these topics up on the board so that people will comment on them in droves. -eab
People will be easily seduced by this technology. The powers-that-think-they-be are counting on it. I admit that it is mind blowing. I’ve been there. It will not surprise you why the world’s richest have been talking about The Singularity, artificial intelligence and digital immortality for so many years.
You go to sleep at night and enter a shared dream world that you never thought possible. The allure will out shine the invasive dangers to individual liberty that are hidden behind it all.
I know too well how insane it sounds, but I would feel awful and traitorous if I didn’t at least warn you. If I didn’t plant the seed in your head.
A few of you think you know already. You’re probably rich or entangled in the related organizations. But I guarantee that you do NOT know the half of it.
Watch for many more discoveries like this one. The secret cannot be kept much longer. A few choice neurological technology stocks could become hot...until they are threats rather than solutions.
Personally I would fund both neurological and AI research groups at MIT. Memory research and wireless brainwave monitoring technologies. -e
There is a handy feature called “the governor”. It is a stroke-switch. It makes troublesome memories go away. Don’t be impressed with its surgical precision, though, because it only needs to trash certain parts of your brain’s scrapbook. The more brilliant and crafty “surgical stroke” you may get to enjoy in my black-mirror style mini series! I’d doubt it though. I’ll have a stroke first, I expect.
The embolism switch is the one i’m looking forward to, personally. 5G should give them enough bandwidth for that, yeah? Ah...peace on earth at last!
If you aren’t aware of any of this yet, it’s because you are not well-connected enough, or rich enough, or both.
But those with privileged access are victims just the same.
I recommend a dream journal. Wake up and sketch a note or two to help you remember. See if you do not encounter any truly complex minds that are not just the product of random neural machinations. You might even find that you misunderstood a conversation with someone in a dream. Consider how that would be even remotely possible.
It is a healthy psychological practice in any event, yes?
Just add microwave hearing with or without implants, your mobile phone as a gps transmitter receiver, and e voi la...you are part of a brain link network.
Please stop and think for a moment. If not already true, my premise is inevitable.
We already know dreams are affected by magnetic fields I am sure somewhere somebody has came up with a way to subtly effect people with some sort of tech. I am a pretty lucid dreamer when I look at complex things like machinery or something like a map, or do basic math it is very stressful and when I wake up I feel like I didn't sleep. Sometimes if I try to take over whole dream I just wake, doesn't matter how long I have been sleeping its almost like the mind doesn't want me to be thinking just watching.
The MIT neurology and AI links I included earlier in this thread should seal the deal for many people.
MIT was tracking the dreams of the rats nearly 20 years ago. They knew what they were dreaming and where they were in their dream maze. Then they were able to change the maze by influencing them to follow another pattern.
Then (see above) MIT has AI tech tracking brainwaves wirelessly in a device the size of a modem - with no head attachments at all.
While the neurological mapping of people surreptitiously could go on almost anywhere within the continental US, the higher bandwidth infrastructure to fully test the electronic brain-link network wouldn’t be everywhere, but I would put a high likelihood on places like Seattle Washington and Austin Texas.
If you worked for someone like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Adobe, Facebook, Boeing, or any number of professional security firms, you would very likely be neurally-mapped. You might have faint recollections while you slept, like dreams where the behavior of others seemed beyond your own imagination.
Other people in the dreams might say and do things that you would misinterpret at the time, or even after waking. Later, upon reflection, it would seem odd that you could have misunderstood something another person in a ‘dream’ had said deliberately, even though the words and context MUST have originated from somewhere within your own mind.
That is until you realized that minds could be artificially networked.
This morning I noticed something peculiar in a dream...people speaking with long exaggerated “S” sounds.
I had heard it before in dreams, like only yesterday, but had forgotten until just now.
About 50 minutes ago, at ten minutes before 7:00 AM, I heard a voice say, “Ssssssssstand up.” “Sssssssstand up.” “Sssssssssssssstand up. I sssssaid sssssssstand up.”
Then I heard, “We are too late.” To which another voice asked, “What?” And the first voice returned “With him, we are too late!”
Peculiar isn’t it? A dream like that. I’d heard it before as I slept, and even in the dream, I thought it odd. Ordinarily I wouldn’t pester this blog with such a meaningless detail, but this time I thought I would get it on the record.
That is, in addition to my 657 entry, multi-year dream journal. -eab-
Here's a news report from Sky News Australia that comments on the silent but raging war of international software development in universities and tech firms that makes the exact points I would make, but without the minutia of technical detail regarding Neurology and AI which you frankly wouldn't believe. (hell..I wouldn't believe...)
It should be obvious by now though, that I don't post here to persuade anyone of anything.
From my point-of-view, an entirely private “free-speech” blog is a contradiction, and not as enlightening as one which could be read by anyone, but posted-upon only by registered members.
I have been frequently intrigued with the minds which have attended the topics on Patrick.net, and I thank you, but one particular hypothesis of mine has unfortunately proven accurate.
I am a huge fan of science fiction. Playing the What-If Game is always a fun mental exercise with clever people...
What if we didn't have to wait for wireless brain-to-brain communication? For audible and visual brain-to-digital-and-back-to-brain communication?
What if it was an already maturing technology of some twenty years, but currently rested only in the hands of the NSA, CIA, FBI, NGA, IRS, and BLM types? (three letter acronyms only please) :-)
While Huxley and Orwell remain loads of fun on long rainy Saturday afternoons, lets face it, those gentlemen never were quite up-to-speed with what was coming in the Information Age.
What if a disproportionate number of ultra-conservative, secret squirrel, "My name is Smith...Joseph Smith" religious types had been tapping thousands of unwitting brains for years? Simply because of their disproportionate numbers in the organizations above. Tilting the technology in their favor since the 1980's.
What if the NSA had a deeper understanding of the nature of electro-bio-neurology than we had thought possible. Kept well compartmentalized and hidden within the bureaucracy of course. Would it have been for the better that such a thing had been kept secret? Would their hands not have been the best hands in which to entrust such technology?
Feel free to ignore the philosophical challenge. I think most of you have realized by now that I don't put these topics up on the board so that people will comment on them in droves. -eab