Chips on the Brain

[crocodile deathroll]

This page just gave me a thought:

What would be the implications of microchips being implanted in our brains which would upload images we see in our direct perceptions and even our dreams to the internet, so people can download in real time what we are directly perceiving in their cell/mobile phones or laptops or ever their own brains which also has chip implants. What implications would this have for the so called "soul"?

 

[athon]

Richard Morgan's 'Altered Carbon' / 'Broken Angel' books.

The movie - Strange Days.

Two examples of sci-fi having explored this idea. There are countless others.

As we are learning, the most beautiful thing about our abstract notion of 'souls' is that we are little more than biochemical reactions. Sublime!

Athon

 

[crocodile deathroll]

Susan Greenfield was a bit concerned about this blurring the boundaries of self. I find that if that if this technology is at all possible, it would be most exciting. Perhaps she is just gettin' old and a little technophobic.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Pardon a slight hijack.

Athon- is Broken Angel a sequal to Altered Carbon? I read AC and enjoyed it hugely. As you say, it does exemplify some of the cultural effects of this tech., though necessarily downplays others to make the story comprehensible.

 

[Nucular]

"And if my thought dreams
Could be seen
They'd probably put my head
In a guillotine"
- Dylan, Its Alright Ma

I think if mine could be seen though people would just change channels

I was thinking how good it would be to be able to rewatch your dreams, because mine disappear really quickly, but then I got thinking that actually, so much of dreams are sensation, emotion, impression, rather than actual visual images - I don't think there'd be much in someone else's dream that could really be understood properly by anyone other than the one who dreamt it, and even then it would be nowhere near complete, more like a photo of a holiday than a video of a film.