Re:The Future of Humanity with Elon Musk: Interview by Neil ...
by dragonwriter on Monday March 23, 2015 @12:43PM
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> Brain to computer interfaces
> Very, very, very bad idea. Once this works, we've got a massive box of philosophical and psychological issues to deal with--reality becomes suspect and meaningless.
Objective reality is suspect anyway, since all the methods of accessing it are subjective.
Brain to computer interfaces may draw more visibility to this long-known philosophical problem, but it doesn't fundamentally change the landscape.
> Very, very, very bad idea. Once this works, we've got a massive box of philosophical and psychological issues to deal with--reality becomes suspect and meaningless.
Objective reality is suspect anyway, since all the methods of accessing it are subjective.
Brain to computer interfaces may draw more visibility to this long-known philosophical problem, but it doesn't fundamentally change the landscape.