Pondering the not-quite-singularity
This article, which talks about a recent article in Nature, got me thinking.
The original article was about "networked rat brains" - the idea being that one rat gets a stimulus, its brain waves get picked up and transmitted via technology to another rat, which responds. The implementation, as the first article I linked to points out, is actually pretty kludgey. And so, the author says, it's not "Technepathy" (i.e. technology-enabled telepathy).
But I'm not 100% convinced that it isn't some first-order approach to Technepathy. Even Internet chatting is arguably a simple form of that - you're telling your thoughts (filtered through the notoriously-inaccurate engine of human speech, even before you consider *shudder* leet-speak) to someone ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN PLANET. Maybe it's not technepathy, but it's something. Just not sure what.
I need to think about this more.
The original article was about "networked rat brains" - the idea being that one rat gets a stimulus, its brain waves get picked up and transmitted via technology to another rat, which responds. The implementation, as the first article I linked to points out, is actually pretty kludgey. And so, the author says, it's not "Technepathy" (i.e. technology-enabled telepathy).
But I'm not 100% convinced that it isn't some first-order approach to Technepathy. Even Internet chatting is arguably a simple form of that - you're telling your thoughts (filtered through the notoriously-inaccurate engine of human speech, even before you consider *shudder* leet-speak) to someone ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN PLANET. Maybe it's not technepathy, but it's something. Just not sure what.
I need to think about this more.