Re: [TML] Virtuality and its Social Consequences (long)
Jeffrey Schwartz 15 Sep 2015 19:11 UTC
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Bruce Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 4:32 PM, Jim Vassilakos <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> at TL 21, when neuroscientists figure out how to parallelize this architecture, such that a VIP could theoretically have any number of memories, all cross-referenced in a manner that makes them intuitively and immediately accessible. At TL 22 things begin to get weird.
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> Begin??? I’m minded of the scene in 'The Watchmen’ when Laurie catches Dr. Manhattan ‘multitasking’.
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> Some of the discussion about the WAPS verges on Microscosmic God territory…
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_God
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> What happens when the WAP’s decide to revolt?
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Humored at a word from that book: Neoterics
I'm on Provigil , which is classified as a "neoteric drug"
Weird how fiction comes to life, eh?