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In the end we are all alone locked into our own consciousness realm. We manipulate rerepresentations of the world, in coded neuronal structures, in a way that makes us seem present in the world -itself-. We make enough
sense of all these impulses to navigate these bodies around in the world in a healthy manner.
There is a barrier of nothingness that seperates our aloneness from each other. All throughout human history we have been trapped apart from each other but a time will come when we will -merge- into one another. We will experience for the first time what we have been imagining all along; what it is like to be another person. Going inside of each other could then become as easy as making a phone call is now. Before the appropriate laws are created, people's live will begin to be laid out for all to see. Communicating in a telepathic manner will become commonplace. There are six major muscles involved in speech production and when the nerves leading to them are connected to electronic devices mind reading will become a reality. A way to turn the connection to these muscles off will allow the command from mind to muscle to be sent as an electronic communication to others. Embarrasment will be different; people will not have to ask why a person has a red face, they will simply read the noises that are associated with sending signals to the face that make this happen. Throughout history people have been inching closer and closer to an understaning of what is going on in other people's experiences. There have been many groups of people that have learned how to go beyond the verbal and through body language an voice tone have been able to, in a way, read other's mind. The predominant event in the INTERFACE world will be the connection of the nerves leading to the muscles which produce the voice. Once a method is established for sending these signals to another person's brain we will bypass the vocal aspects of out communication. This will only invole a few requirements. A computer connected to the brain, and also connected to some sort of micro-cell-phone, and then at the recieving end a reverse of the prior steps. There must be a sending and a receiving end. Like with the phone, these signal canbe sent to other people who can be as far apart as the wireless communication can be sent. When the wired person tries to speak his or her voice will either be turned off or on. If turned off and the psuado-telpathic apperatus turned on, their voice will be translated into a signal that can be translated back into understandable communications, by the receiver, in the portions of the brain that reconstruct heard speach (Wernikes area). When one person communicates, vocally, with another, a thought is translated into many different forms before it leaves his or her mouth as a series of tonal and frequency modulations. The thought is turned into sound vibrations, a code, which can be deciphered by other people. Could this be considered one form of mind reading? If we had ourselves wired up and were hearing voices produced by others, at a distance (without sound), would there be that much difference between this and the way we decipher all of the noises that we call speech now? This will be one of the first telepathic powers that we construct with our technological skills. We will then proceed to build every other psychic power imaginable by connecting certain parts of the brain, into the system, and then developeing Psychicware; E.S.P., telekinesis, mind reading, astral projection, and many other forms of remote control, will allow us to create another group of senses not yet thought of. Most psychics would tell you that there is more to their art than simply hearing thoughts in their head. They would claim that they experience the other's self, and emotions, and a sense of place, etc... One step towards making this so will be to connect those parts of the brain which produce the emotional components of our experiences (emotion producing neurons [limbic system] ). Once we bring the emotions up online we will create a market for more advance psychic software. Information has been travelling around the world steadily, smoothly, and slowely, in the form of writing. This has been the case especially since the invention of the printing press. With the arrival of the telegraph and the telephone a revolution took place that has rearanged our situational geography. Speed of communication, quality of information contained and the efficiency of the communication has skyrocketed. Think of how we communicated with each other over large distances in the past. Someone would either carry a written document from one place to the other or they would memorize the message and tell it when they got there. Out beyond some points it was impossible to learn of the news in a live fasion which we take for granted now. Before electronics information travelled only as fast as we could make our other materials travel. Even before electronics there was a form of written communication which changed our sense of what others are going through. The novel. After the printing press came the popular novel. A new style, a style that got inside of people's heads and worked out their entire existence, one thought at a time. People were able to put their minds inside of entire worlds and pick apart some of the most complex parts of other's experiences (parts that even today have no label). With the arrival and popularization of the novel tha common man and the masses became amatuer psychologists. People learned to be keen on the possible influences that these pages contained, creating a literary criticism, and worryed about what effect these works would have on innocent minds. This sentiment of concern, over influence, repeated itself with the arrival of movies, musical styles, the radio, and television. Each step of the way the debate has become more predominant; are we moving to close to each other, are we revealing more about each other than is healthy, etc... Finally, today a young person can go through more perceived situations, in one day of television, than some people do in an entire lifetime. A recent trend with the telephone is illustrative. Many young people have the phone by them at all times and feel like they are missing something, even if they have a beeper attached to their sides. These people are in constant communication with their freinds. It seems that they would be more prepared for a situation where we are connected, litterally, to each other. It is as if they already have this device attached to their body since it is near them 24 hours a day. The availability of the news is another case in point. At any time of the day we can turn on a radio, tv, etc... and hear about what is going on around the world. In a sense we are closer to the world and some say that our medias have turn the world into some sort of village. An industry that does the communicating of other's experiences for us could turn into our corpus collosum (portion of the brain that connects the two hemispheres together). When we connect the brain to all of this information, a change, as radical as that brought on by the printing press will take place. These means of communication will burst on through to the other side of our skulls. Inside of us and a part of us. Once adapted, though, people will think this situation as normal as a world that, always had these things. And now the internet is beginning to take the world by storm. Another step; a communications network, like others but one that individuals control. Enough room for everyone to speak his or her peice. Each person will soon have the ability to be his or her own private production studio, their own tv station. Talk shows indicate the direction a personal connection to many others @ once will take. All that is needed now is to shrink the production studio down onto a cheap chip or an affordable software and then jack it in the box. It is not to much of a strech of the imagination to say that it wil be truely astounding when we hook the internet directly to our brains. Once connected and telepathically communicating, from brain 2 brain, things like newsgroups or chat rooms will be a little different, at least moving along at the speed of thought.
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