Since this is the featured article thingy of today I’m commenting, maybe someone will see this and want to engage this argument or agree and make sure that the smart guys in lab coats see it.
By the time you realize you have a choice, there is no choice. You cannot unsee what you see. The other way is closed.
For now. But once we control neuroscience really well, this entire can of worms gets opened up again. Perhaps Brave New World would be a more appropriate dystopia to reference than 1984, because in that world they actually DO believe what the government wants them to, because they’re so well controlled by the sleep hypnosis and conditioning they receive.
So we’ll need a different and better solution eventually. And, also, this solution needs to deal with infinite regress too.
Since this is the featured article thingy of today I’m commenting, maybe someone will see this and want to engage this argument or agree and make sure that the smart guys in lab coats see it.
For now. But once we control neuroscience really well, this entire can of worms gets opened up again. Perhaps Brave New World would be a more appropriate dystopia to reference than 1984, because in that world they actually DO believe what the government wants them to, because they’re so well controlled by the sleep hypnosis and conditioning they receive.
So we’ll need a different and better solution eventually. And, also, this solution needs to deal with infinite regress too.