Let's get philosophical. I think therefore I am. Descartes He who fights with monsters might take care, lest he thereby becomes a monster. Nietzsche Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. Hegel
Neurology is a fascinating science, while all those guys are long dead white philosophers whose work means nothing today. Already our thoughts have been demonstrated to emerge from our emotions, meaning Descartes might as well have said, "I stink, therefore I am!" Nietzsche is considered a great fiction writer by most academic philosophers, while Hegel's philosophy has not been able to keep up with such realities as quantum mechanics and is largely useless today. Increasingly both philosophers and physicists have been adopting theories they either don't believe in or don't comprehend, because the classical philosophy they still rely upon is falling apart at the seams under the close scrutiny of physical reality over the last century. The world only remotely resembles anything like classical philosophy and physics, but academics don't have anything better to work with, and can still make weapons and money pretending they know what they're doing. I've been kicked off just about every academic website imaginable that is open to the public, for even mentioning the fact none of their philosophies is useful today and all the academics who espouse them are relying on the work of Contextual philosophers to even keep a job. Academia has become intimate bedfellows with the military industrial complex, even suggesting in recent years that they must censor the entire world wide web to protect the same idiots they teach all this outdated crap to from themselves. My specialty is the fuzzy logic that describes just how stupid academics really are, according to their own evidence, and some of my work is classified by the government, because you can make anything including cruise missile guidance systems using the analog logic.
Faith is the only path to wisdom, whenever a pie-in-the-face is what is required to bring us back to reality!
Disney is now working with the porn industry, and philosophers are debating the definition of virtual sex and quoting the Matrix.
You ain't seen nothin' yet. The newest robotic limbs for amputees don't require any implants, while the video gaming industry is hard at work with the porn industry on "haptics". For example, with a negligible electromagnetic stimulation such haptic devices can make you feel as if you are being pushed backwards by acceleration. The pleasure centers of the brain are deeper, but there's no reason you can't make someone cream their jeans over the internet with the push of a button. It could require a century of dedicated research to figure out most of the possibilities, but I'm sure there will be plenty of equally dedicated volunteers.
Neurologists are only now beginning to comprehend the overall architecture of the brain, but it resembles an FM radio. There are people hard at work figuring out how to "tune" and operate a basic EEG that can fit in a baseball cap so that it can literally read your mind and fulfill your every desire. Already, using such techniques it is possible to almost take movies of people dreaming and read a newspaper when they are awake. Once the complete mathematics and physics are known, it should be possible to create a VR singularity, or a rabbit hole that can sometimes resemble a Woody Allen "Orgasmatron". But, that is the collective unconscious, and you have to be careful what you wish for.
Actually there is a member of this forum, who is involved in that I can't say who. But will alert him to this thread, next time he is online.
Right now they are working to improve the sensitivity of the eeg contacts on the scalp, so they don't require any messy crap in your hair or a shaved head, but you can buy an inexpensive VR headset that will read your brain waves and know if you are about to so much as blink an eye. They were developed for amputee research, but newest research into manipulating the brain like an FM radio transceiver is likely to require years to produce results. Already, they are figuring out ways to improve your memory and IQ by wearing a stupid ballcap. Dunce caps may never be the same again and hair nets could become the next big fashion.
Ecstatic experiences come highly recommended, and could be what saves humanity from their own stupidity, thanks to the invention of artificial intelligence, but it is much too early to tell. Darwin was an optimist.
Already the workaholic white population of the US and EU are crashing in number, preferring to spend what free time they have spending all the money they make on other things than making babies. Likewise, they are dropping like flies from alcoholism and other related problems, which their pharmaceutical companies and doctors are helpless to deal with. In Japan, women are increasingly complaining that its hard enough to be get laid in a country of polite workaholics, without having to compete with online porn, VR, and transformer robots. Anyway, I say let them eat cake! My own work can be used to design a cheap home computer that doubles as an Orgasmitron if that's what you want, and can even be used to read someone's mind online, bringing entirely new meaning to mental masturbation. Those who actually reproduce, will be those who actually have a life, but everybody gets to die happy.
