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Strelky

Strelky

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Personally this freaks me out. The idea is that computer chips can be implanted in the brain or other parts of the body and hooked up to computers to read the data, say I suddenly think "Man I really want a Dr. Pepper. My robot assisstant will get me a Dr. Pepper. It definitely has potential, but like most humans. Drastic change frightens me.

 

Here's a video I found on the topic (didn't watch the whole thing, got scared :L

 

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Myst42

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I said it 10 years ago and now its still happening...

First the cellphones, people cant leave their phone cause they are stuck on twitter, facebook or whatsapp

Try to leave your cellphone at home... not many people can go on an entire day phone-less without going insane

 

Its probably coming closer the day cellphones with GPS and complex utilities and interface will be implanted on babies upon birth...

 

Augmentations and improvements are all nice... but how long until a single ambitious mind creates something to create control over users?

 

It could be just plain paranoia... but the AI is still taking control...

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Chbaakal

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Just upload yourself into a network. Then you won't have to worry about anything but a global EMP event!

 

Worries if you've been uploaded into a network: You are now code. Anything that can affect/infect code can affect/infect 'you', including memory alteration and deletion, system bugs, viruses, and hacking. I'd rather be a fully protected, isolated Neural Interface System, tended by trusted professionals to maintain and adjust the System I would 'inhabit'.

 

Unfortunately, 1 in 42.3 million humans would have the mental 'duribility' to sustain awareness outside of their bodies without issues when transferred. Several years of training from early childhood to adult would increase the success rate of adjustment to the sensory and organic deprivation suffered during transfer completion, and would also assure the inhabitee would not incur 'personality' dysfunction when the 'mind' is left to itself.

 

I'd once been part of a study on sensory deprivation back in the early '90's. I lasted 41 minutes submerged in a tank without external stimuli, and only wanted out when I had to urinate ( a sensation quite intense when it's the only one you can really feel; humans can usually ignore one sensation until it overrides others). You might be surprised at how much you might miss that you never put much thought into, like body aches and pains, random itches and any stresses upon the body that gravity forces us to endure. I found it the most relaxing time I've ever had, but many people would panic in such a deprived state, since they rely heavily on stimulus from their environment. Some would even develop mental health issues if left too long, or magnify those issues that they already have to a larger degree.

 

Of course, if possible, I'd still want some kind of replacement 'vehicle' to move around on or in, just nothing so...lame as a Robobrain chassis, or a human type arti. I'd go for a sleek, large feline or canine chassis, black with glowing blue eyes and telltale lighting. Or not. No endocrine system means nothing to get excited about, or take pride in, really.... :cool:

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