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No. It is an abomination.
What kind of abomination?
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No. It is an abomination.
These are set to become commercially available within the next 50 years. Essentially, your phone with all its capabilities (and many more) will be implanted in your skull. You will be able to call everything up with thought alone. VR will also be possible.
AR will be more or less constant (you will see notifications popping up in your field of vision superimposed over the real world)
There will also be read and write capability. People will read the data flow inside your skull and obviously with the right security clearance write to it.
Telepathy will be quite trivial. Memory will be limited only by storage capacity. Eventually these will become far more sophisticated. The VR will become more immersive. 'Superhuman' abilities will start to emerge such as enhanced senses, time lapse, microscopic vision etc. It will start to bed down into your consciousness more and more, affecting thought and perception in deeper ways until there is no division between the machine and the human.
Is this something that Christians should adopt or not?
PS Elon Musk has already invented one called Neuralink
This is absolutely a theological question. This will make us reassess our humanity. We'll be interfacing with machines directly. Once we have them embedded in our skull, there is no escaping. You won't be turning them off. You'll be dependent on it to function. It will be tied up with memory and thinking and emotion to the extent that it'll only be off while you sleep.
Crucially, we'll be giving ultimate power to corporations and governments who will not use it responsibly. The changes that technology has already induced will be mulitplied a thousandfold.
Can you explain your reasoning here?No. It is an abomination.
Can you explain your reasoning here?
What do you think of cochlear implants that enable the deaf to hear?
What about people with electrodes implanted in their brains to prevent epileptic seizures?
So, "It's a huge jump" and, "it'll take longer than 50 years" therefore it's an abomination?Electrodes implanted in certain basal ganglia structures, i.e., the subthalamic nucleus and globus pallidus can treat Parkinson's Disease, and other movement disorders that are resistant to medication. But such devices only administer very small currents that block the abnormal neural circuits causing muscle stiffness and tremors. It's a huge jump from treating dyskinesias to implants that can affect or augment cognitive processes. Or, as stated in the OP, can broadcast thoughts which others can perceive. If microchip-assisted mental telepathy is even possible, I think it'll take longer than 50 years.
So, "It's a huge jump" and, "it'll take longer than 50 years" therefore it's an abomination?
OK - I was after an explanation of why SapphirePrincess thought it was an abomination. But it looks like her post was a drive-by.No. It’s not an abomination. It’s unrealistic. At the very least regarding the time frame.
OK - I was after an explanation of why SapphirePrincess thought it was an abomination. But it looks like her post was a drive-by.
Ah, OK. I didn't realise that anyone seriously thought that was a possibility...Probably because if everyone's mind was linked to a computer that let us all read each other's thoughts, you'd get something like this:
What makes an implant an abomination?No. It is an abomination.
PS Elon Musk has already invented one called Neuralink.
Just a nitpick - Musk did not invent Neuralink. He has not "invented" anything - he hires people to do the inventing and takes the credit. Just like he did not start Tesla, PayPal, or SpaceX.
I like his companies (for the most part) - just not his hubris