Posted on 03/15/2014 7:49:24 AM PDT by shove_it
How soon can we expect to see brain implants for perfect memory, enhanced vision, hypernormal focus or an expert golf swing?
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Science fiction? Perhaps not for very much longer. Brain implants today are where laser eye surgery was several decades ago. They are not risk-free and make sense only for a narrowly defined set of patients—but they are a sign of things to come...
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Me too, its like I think I read something about this just recently, but I can't remember where or when.
Wait till advertisers learn how to exploit this. You get a craving in your head for a Big Mac: did it come from you or was it inserted via your Brain-Internet interface? Scary stuff.
Imagine living in a world where Nancy Pelosi would live forever.
It would be just like the world with Jimma Cata.
You want to know what will drive humans to extinction?
When it becomes possible to experience virtual sex that is indistinguishable from the real thing. All the pleasure without the expense or nagging.
Such a hypothetical world might pleasure itself to death.
I don’t think it’ll actually happen though.
Just like many dope dealers studiously never touch the stuff. They’d rather live soberly, if crookedly, off the proceeds.
Also... I don’t care what Kinsey or Dr Joyce Brothers or Dr Ruth says... there is an emptiness about pleasure-only sex. It is a kind of rapture in meaninglessness.
They have those. It’s called a “functioning brain”. . .
Lots of luck making that work.
Here is your HOPE Obama
You’re asking about a version of the ship of Theseus paradox. You can see some relevant arguments here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Personally. I think you’re still “you” as long as you never stop being you. It’s like saying if I am able to take a pill which makes me instantly have the body if Mr Universe, am I still the same person? I think I would be,
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