My favorite thing about this dude was the whole "we will have machines inserted into our brains" thing. Can that happen today so I can sit back at work and let the machine do my job? Sounds pretty awesome. I'll be napping so get to work, machine.

Quote:I apologize for the scary visuals.

Well...don't apologize.

I mean - I lived through it.


Let's not go overboard here.

(November 28, 2011 at 12:15 pm)Heather Wrote: My favorite thing about this dude was the whole "we will have machines inserted into our brains" thing. Can that happen today so I can sit back at work and let the machine do my job? Sounds pretty awesome. I'll be napping so get to work, machine.

Just watch this film and then you will be fine, Heather.

http://transcendentman.com/

Ah, but be careful with what you jack your head into. Wouldn't want some ghost in the machine making "suggestions", would we....? I don't know, personally, I think anything sophisticated enough to create an entirely virtual world over and above the one your mind has already created is a double edged sword and probably shouldn't be granted direct access to your mind. Hasn't this sort of "reality" already caused us enough trouble without technological assistance?

I have no problem disengaging from the game. Get out for a hike, a single-speed mountain bike ride, or get to work on the car or bike, and I'm full out of the loop, no "gosubs" necessary.

(November 28, 2011 at 12:18 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Just watch this film and then you will be fine, Heather.

http://transcendentman.com/

Whoa, I'm also gonna live forever? This day just keeps getting better and better.

Isn't there some Highlander song "Who wants to live forever?"

(November 28, 2011 at 12:20 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Ah, but be careful with what you jack your head into. Wouldn't want some ghost in the machine making "suggestions", would we....? I don't know, personally, I think anything sophisticated enough to create an entirely virtual world over and above the one your mind has already created is a double edged sword and probably shouldn't be granted direct access to your mind. Hasn't this sort of "reality" already caused us enough trouble without technological assistance?

Yep, the idea of something/someone controlling my mind.. um, i'll go with no on that. Now, the idea of escaping reality for a bit, ok... but to give up full rein to a machine, negative.

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Hahaha, this video is awesome, good call, Summer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymJaMOEpAs

I suppose if you consider that we are all constructed out of "energy"; more or less a collage of this stuff. If you take the 2nd law of thermodynamics into consideration, "energy" cannot be created or destroyed; thus we do not have a literal "creator" nor can we (or the "energies" that currently make up the collage of who we are at the moment) be destroyed... aka "we live forever".

Truth is... neither the so-called "creation" or the "destruction" concern me as much as the time of experience (assumed between these two points of extreme) that I have the opportunity to enjoy. I find the experience of what it is to be alive is far more intriguing than answering any such anthropomorphic queries/phobias such as "where did it all come from" and "what happens after the experience known as living is over"... why waste now for a speculation of something you cannot possibly answer with any coherence? As for me... I really have much better hobbies to pursue.

Meow!

GREG

(November 28, 2011 at 3:59 pm)mayor of simpleton Wrote: I suppose if you consider that we are all constructed out of "energy"; more or less a collage of this stuff. If you take the 2nd law of thermodynamics into consideration, "energy" cannot be created or destroyed; thus we do not have a literal "creator" nor can we (or the "energies" that currently make up the collage of who we are at the moment) be destroyed... aka "we live forever".

That must also mean that there might be other people inside me