Neuralink: Resistance Is Futile?

Could Neuralink accidentally turn all its users into a hive mind? That’s what we’re going to be exploring in this episode where we take a look inside the brain and at the possibility for Neuralink’s high bandwidth and low latency to transform the nature of consciousness.
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0:00 Introduction
3:42 Split Brain Science
7:29 Watts Argument: Merging of Consciousness
10:50 The Age of BCIs
12:23 What Will a Super-Consciousness Look Like?
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[TheLivingPhilosophy]

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:42 Split Brain Science
7:29 Watts Argument: Merging of Consciousness
10:50 The Age of BCIs
12:23 What Will a Super-Consciousness Look Like?

[Hexoxx]

The more I work with technology, the more pessimistic I become about the field.
I understand Neuralink as a product from a company that wants to profit from it. Not just from its sale, but from its use. So I imagine, for example, scenarios where our body and mind data are sold. And if perhaps our brain can be used as a data input or the consumption of advertising directly on our minds. I see that a total control of the device by the user would be a waste of good profit opportunities.
And we must remember that as a product it will have a cost. It will only be accessible to a portion of the population. Could the conflict discussed in the video be between people who can and those who cannot buy the device?
A great video as always! It was a great reflection. Big fan of the channel
Sorry for my english

[traildoggy]

Just what we need, a subscription based model for your own consciousness with tech bros managing the whole thing. 🤯🤕

[_..]

Based on Tesla’s reliability, I might give this one a miss for a while

[birke]

thanks for the high quality content. keep it up!

[sastakarlmarx]

I'm a person who suffers from impulsive, intrusive thoughts, if anyone could hear my thoughts then my life would be a big chaos, there has to be on/off button on that thing

[itsbotirlll]

My gut instinct is to reject it all. This seems deeply wrong

[samuelmelton]

Die Gedanken sind hinter einer Paywall

[intellectually_lazy]

ja, there was also a 90s outer limits about everyone using devices in their brain to go online, except one guy with a neurological irregularity, who saved them all when things went sideways

[scottpatrick]

People used to call me crazy for studying the Bible, but ALL of this aligns exactly with prophesy and the plight of the fallen one. Revelation 13 literally describes an awakening sentient a.i. that it says "speaks and is granted life", that goes on to demand worship, place a mark for digital money on all people with some type of biometric being described. We've all heard of the mark of the beast, well this sentient machine is called the "image of the beast"

[Monopluralistatranscendental]

I honestly believe there is already experiential levels higher than ours, since much much long ago.

I am a pampsychist, which means that matter is conscious, and that higher levels of consciousness emerge when experiencings at the same level integrate with each other.

Our body is literally a civilization of living conscious beings, and our level is only above theirs, and societies are themselves organisms with consciousness, all politics is biology, all biology is politics.

So I dont think we are gonna lose our individuality, but we might become much more intimate to each other, the mind is gonna be as powerful as material stuff became and this might lead us to an evolution where we are not just become much smarter but also more empathetic to each other.

[BloodStarvedBrotherhood]

I lean towards an idealist metaphysics, so this whole thing has some different connotations. I see technology as a sort of training wheels for a higher level of consciousness which will allow us to embody the functions which we currently rely on technologies to express.

[edgarrenenartatez]

Welcome to the Abolition of Man - CS Lewis

[Havre_Chithra]

The idea that consciousness is merely epiphenomenal is one of the most insidious ideas... it literally devalues the world and reality and ultimately "not important", when in fact, it is everything... the material and spiritual (The Logos/Word/Way) is all contained within.

[itsawonderfullife]

There is a weak point in this argument and that's the fact that in brain-split individuals there is still a single consciousness: There is a single joint abstract space into which the thoughts and subjective experiences are flowing; It's just that in these individuals the subsystems (left and right) are at odds with each other and don't share information or regulate each other's behavior ("atheist and Christian hemispheres").
But it's still a single human consciousness (even with the high-bandwidth link cut off); So the argument that with a slow link the "unified consciousness" de-coheres into two does not seem valid and the implication (in reverse direction) that with much increased bandwidth (between individual human brains) the reverse could occur is not supported.

Though I admit this (brain interfaces) is all uncharted territory, not only for humanity but for evolution itself.

[intellectually_lazy]

sure, and when i found out what an advanced search was, i thought it was like talking to the enterprise d. my first cell phone made me feel like james bond. so yes, i can see how that may feel like the force

[comfortablynumb]

Tying brains to the Internet satellite network is the perfect recipe for turning people into worker ants.

[jamesstaggs]

No. Just no. I'll be left behind. I don't care. I loved the whole cyberpunk thing when I was a kid and Shadowrun in particular. I thought direct neural interface with computers was so cool but after seeing how information is manipulated to illicit certain responses and to propagate various bad ideas there's no way I'll ever give anyone direct access to my brain via anything like Neuralink.

[sylvarogre]

A minor point that doesn't effect your topic.
The movie "I, Robot" is not an adaption. It only shares a name with Azimov's collection of short stories. Likewise, the character of Elijah Bailey in the movie only shares a name with the character from Azimov's stories.

[Hakushakuke]

When private thoughts are no longer private, it is hell.