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This is an excerpt from a much broader blog entry by author, Jonathan Ames about an entirely different subject in it self but I found this wildly entertaining.
“..I once tried to read a book called The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind, which, to simplify things, was about the beginning of thought…Oh, god, this tangent is going to be way too long. I will write about it somewhere else some day. But to tie up the tangent — I’m in a documentary about immortality called Life Extended by the wonderful Swedish filmakers Bigert and Bergstrom, and one of the other talking heads in the documentary is the futurist Raymond Kurzweil, and he talks about how someday our brains will be backed up and how increasingly machines are being incorporated into our bodies.
Now man struggles with this, as expressed in so much popular entertainment which illustrates our great phobia of machines — Terminator, Matrix, Transformers, etc — but I think it’s our evolutionary process. We are incorporating machines the way we once incorporated the thumb. So my point is that all this twitting, while rudimentary, like some early stone tool, is a step towards shared communal consciousness, like some species out of Star Trek where all thought is shared. Now the proponents of rugged individualism don’t like this notion… “
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Comment by Craigslist Master 10.28.09 @ 4:36 pm