AI MIND INTEGRATION

SOURCE: https://giphy.com/search/blade-runner

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The time is nigh to grasp all conceptual understanding for mind and machine integrations. Brain-computer interface (BCI) is direct communication between a wired brain and external artificial intelligent devices, and the rise of such technologies are upon us. 

An article by Sue Halpern, ‘Mind Control & the Internet’ debates opposing arguments such as the use of these technologies having both risks and benefits of restoring human function yet can also be seen negatively as unleashing ghastly threats to humanity. 

Merging man and machine is a “product, which will be developed within the next four years [that] will eventually lead humans to be able to communicate by ‘consensual telepathy’” Elon Musk, CEO of Neuralink proclaims as he speaks of BCI. These ‘noninvasive brain scanners’ David Pogue (HowFar Away is Mind-Machine Integration? 2012, Scientific American) with no understanding for defects or health risks these devices may have on the human brain, not to mention the questions raised about ethics, privacy and credibility are still in complete early days of testing. Tom Mitchell and Marcel Just of Carnegie Mellon University told Pogue “Our Machine is our Monster”.

People of the internet, the future is here and ready to tap into the devices we were born with; our minds.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/elon-musk-neuralink

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/06/23/mind-control-and-internet/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-far-away-mind-machine-integration/

REVIEWING THE REVIEWS: CATFISH (2008 DOCUMENTARY)

SOURCE: Catfish Documentary

Massively criticized documentary CATFISH, is a 2008 post-modern film that, considered a hoax, follows the story of a film maker named Nev, a guy from New York who befriends a young country girl named Abby after she emails him a painting of his work. Nev engages a friendly online relationship with Abby's family; her older sister, Megan, and their mother, Angela over Facebook. As he becomes more and more romantically involved with Megan via IMs, texts, phone calls, little details start to become twisted and introduces the implications and dangers of online identities and the people behind them. 

 

SOURCE: Nev on his way to hunt down fact from fiction. A review from The Independent suspicious of real and fake.

In viewing this “documentary” I felt an array of emotions, first dark mocking humour for the good-looking guy about to get his heart broken to the audacity of lengths people will go through to construct false or extended identities for themselves online, to then feeling sympathetic and sad for those same people.

SOURCE: A post modern review on the film relate-able with my reckonings

It’s definitely a rollercoaster of emotion with relatable and relevant representation of (real) characters in this film, at any time you are able to empathise and put yourself in the shoes of all involved; the protagonist, the antagonist and the anti-hero, with good fairness of depiction (once the boys had ‘figured’ out what was going on) to the characters, all but one: Little Abby. With having no thought for potential damage, the film may cause her while growing up, all involved didn’t stop to think exploiting this young girl could inevitably result in facing the fall out of her mothers fantasy life that was displayed in cinemas across the world, without being given the correct coping mechanisms to help her manage the ordeal she had no say in to begin with.

The Guardian Fact or Fiction is another review which presents issues supporting the falsities behind the documentary.


 SOURCE: An idiom turned meme which is a popularized cartoon in The New Yorker, it has come to illustrate an understanding about the way privacy and anonymity work on the Internet.