Right? They'd be fucked. The collective mindset would spread like wildfire in any kind of system where people could truly get to the emotions people hold and honestly feel and empathise with one another.
This technology is not a friend of the bourgeoisie. The only thing they can hope for with machine brain interfaces is uplifting the mind with digital improvements, if they give us anything like the ability to project thoughts, feelings and emotions to one another they will be unwittingly handing over a tool to create a proletarian hivemind and absolutely fucking themselves. I seriously do not think he has thought through the implications of such a technology at all.
Individualism RELIES on people being.... Individual. Shared thoughts goes utterly against that.
(I forgot how sexist that joke actually is, I remember thinking about it a lot as a kid, but I guess the crux was just "haha gun make you lady with feelings")
Right? They'd be fucked. The collective mindset would spread like wildfire in any kind of system where people could truly get to the emotions people hold and honestly feel and empathise with one another.
This technology is not a friend of the bourgeoisie. The only thing they can hope for with machine brain interfaces is uplifting the mind with digital improvements, if they give us anything like the ability to project thoughts, feelings and emotions to one another they will be unwittingly handing over a tool to create a proletarian hivemind and absolutely fucking themselves. I seriously do not think he has thought through the implications of such a technology at all.
Individualism RELIES on people being.... Individual. Shared thoughts goes utterly against that.
The most powerful weapon in the universe
(I forgot how sexist that joke actually is, I remember thinking about it a lot as a kid, but I guess the crux was just "haha gun make you lady with feelings")