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Group mind

Last week I saw a video on youtube about possible future political systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZMqvjrp5ec

At some part I got a flasback from the Ghost in the shell movie, about this scene:

The anime got such scene too, but neither medium tells nearly anything about it... What are we seeing, wo are they, what are they doing, why... It seems a spiritual ritual, where monks emerge with some transcendal entity? In the movie they even zip a dead body into a bag of a monk, which seems to be a cause of an absurd self-sacrifice thing.

Neverthless, I did not wanted to go so off, but just wanted to pick a concept of people being part of a bigger “entity”. Because, what I thought about those scenes, is that these people offer their mind/mental capacity to a super-human entity. Which maybe calculates the meaning of life, which seems worth such sacrifice for them.

It is an absurd manifestation of the concept, when people emerge to be “one”. As I see politics is a lot about such. Politicans we elect do important things for us, as an individual representing us. As a country a lot of the times we are represented against other countries as our leaders. In a democracy these leaders are selected based on the country’s people’s need. People vote/demonstrate on important manners, and a good leader follows those and acts according the wish of the people.

Another, I think related, concept is in psychology, where the self is separated into smaller “entities”, which all fulfill a needful feature, excert mental force to be “represented” in the final acts of the person.

It’s a deep jump, I know, I got some grasp about this after a lot of Jungian influence, through reading and watching related videos/articles/book. I think the metaphore of the brain as a living city with old and new districts makes the best introduction to it: https://www.livescience.com/5674-brain-organized-city.html

In short, this theory states, that humans/we have some old and consolidated “district” in our brain, which we share with our common ancestors, which fulfill th very basic life supporting functions. Later developed part of the brain serve higher functions, but live next to the old, which is still fulfilling tasks. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain). This is anatomy, however tought’s and feelings, I think, can be separated on similar analogy. In the end you have several parts of you, which are generating toughts, which in the end are all required for you to well function. Of course it is a bit off, when you have contradicting feelings/actions. Psychologists say commonly, that you need to align your feelings with your mind to be in harmony. Again a kind of separation in the person, such as the well discussed shadow, or subconcious.

In the end you should be a good leader of your “parts”, be as organs, which feel pain, or mental thoughts, which don’t let you go. They signal/vote hear their voice to you, and you need to act in a way, which fulfills all of your part’s needs in the end.

This post is taking too long, so I just conclude and will continue to expand separately. A good political system is alike, to our body/mind, receives signals from all the parts/people and acts in the common good. Then the group of people (country/city) can thrive, othervise parts of it will disfunction, which brings the whole down. The scif-fi in it, which I plan to unfold later, is that these political systems, just as mentioned in the linked video, do not need to be person based. However today’s political system is not a single person based, but it is rather an insitute in which people work together.

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Neuralink reflections

I think for the first time it is frankly bizarre to invade into your brain with surgical injection of wires. I am not even into tatoos, because it alters my body, which is kind of sacred(?) to me.

But I am really keen to be able to dream up things coming from my mind, which are until now chained in there limited by... my physical abilities.

My drawing teacher comes into my mind, who said, all artist have the same hands as yours, it is not a question of ability, but seeing, thinking and conceptualizing what you want to express. (or similar, ca not quote)

Maybe I am just wondering, but I am sure such a great leap in “bandwidth” should open completely new horizon of creations, let it be art or any common productivity.

I am pretty sure, that even if I have the same hands/mind as others, the intrument which is used by me and how I can interact with it, matters.

I am a software developer, so I should strict to such examples. In that matter, everybody is currently using keyboard to develop. I use it since 25 years to interact with computer and write programms. I do know that the typing of a program is really the ~3-5 percent of the work. But I do know, that the IDE (Integrated Developer Environment) program does really matter, when you need to type a good program. Because it can autocorrect you, it can try your program out and give early feedback after some lines of code, that you missed something. What makes the ~40 percent of the developement time, it when you have your first draft and through a trial and error iteration you de-bug your code until it is finished.

A neuralink, would not only be a keyboard, but a monitor too. So we do not gain only that 3 percent on the typing (there are people, who can type with just the speed of their thoughts), but all those iteraitions from the first draft, through fixes and trial feedback can shorten. With ever more capable support softwares, those iterations and fixes would be more “compact” I think. Like the difference between print-out style debug vs. debugger vs. tracing through more programs interactions. You will need less effort to receive a greater overview about what is going on.

My time is up, I wrote the essence of what I wanted, as a closing, I envision it would be a necessity for future craftmans to have such a “bandwidth” with the tools they are using, as they would become much-much effective. People without such would be hindered, just like some disability. Blind people can write software too, there are excellent softwares to read out results from the screen, hearing it has just a lower bandwith, than vision. I did not worked together with such colleague, but my feeling it that they are less effective developers, as they would be without disability.

This necessity of body modification to be competitive in a far future is fearful and bizarre. My goal is to be optimistic with that, keep up, and foster empathy. As it is important nowadays to support others with disadvantages it is going to be even more important.