Humans are able to access all public knowledge as if they ‘knew’ it themselves
I don’t think this power can be added to humans without extensive modifications to brain architecture, and I don’t think an entity which had this power could be considered human in any meaningful sense.
That’s not to say we won’t have extremely fast, brain-implant-aided information retrieval. But the information retrieved will still have to come in through the optic and auditory nerves, at a limited rate, and it will still be processed by human minds in roughly the same manner we process information now. If we discard any of those premises, it’s more like engineering a new mind than modifying a human one.
I don’t think this power can be added to humans without extensive modifications to brain architecture, and I don’t think an entity which had this power could be considered human in any meaningful sense.
Agreed—this would require a qualitative difference, not a quantitative one.
I don’t think this power can be added to humans without extensive modifications to brain architecture, and I don’t think an entity which had this power could be considered human in any meaningful sense.
That’s not to say we won’t have extremely fast, brain-implant-aided information retrieval. But the information retrieved will still have to come in through the optic and auditory nerves, at a limited rate, and it will still be processed by human minds in roughly the same manner we process information now. If we discard any of those premises, it’s more like engineering a new mind than modifying a human one.
Agreed—this would require a qualitative difference, not a quantitative one.